Do you care about Alexa rankings? I do. It’s a  site that most webmasters are familiar with. Having a great Alexa ranking can help you sell more advertising, increase your site’s prestige, and sell your site at a potentially higher price. Of course Alexa ranking is not too important, but luckily it is relatively easy to achieve a great Alexa ranking.

Here’s all you need to do – Join as many popular web master communities as possible (you’ve probably already done this step) and:

1. Post your site in the review section
2. Get your site appraised (if different from the site’s review section)
3. Put a link to your site in your signature
4. Conduct business as usual, but place important information on your site, so that interested people will have to click on your site.
5. Make an interesting thread regarding Alexa rankings. Usually people who are interested in Alexa (i.e. have the Toolbar installed) will read the thread. Make sure that some critical aspect of the thread requires a click on your site.
6. If your site has a blog, write a post about Alexa, put them on social networks, bookmarking sites, etc.   Also, summarize the blog posting, and make a thread about it in the appropriate section with a link to your full article.
7. Last but not least, make sure you have the Alexa toolbar installed!

So what does this do? Well, who else uses the Alexa toolbar besides webmasters? Not very many people. Getting traffic from these communities will definitely increase your Alexa rankings.

The main thing to remember is do NOT be an idiot. Do NOT make stupid posts. You should only post things on communities that will be helpful to the community. If you spam these communities with stupid threads to increase your Alexa rankings, people are going to see right through it, and call you on your crap. The key is to act normal, and make sure as many web masters as possible are clicking on your site.

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