Well, it seems our strategies have been much more successful than expected.
If you have no idea what I am talking about the background is here (along with the only tips we have used to improve our rank): http://www.hungerfordwebdesign.com/blog/seo/increase-your-alexa-rank/
To view the original and current Alexa rank: http://www.hungerfordwebdesign.com/blog/alexa-monitoring-page/
One of our commenters suggested this tool in the top 3 SEO tools article. As you can see in my comment there, I was pretty unimpressed when I installed it in IE7 on Vista. True to my word, I then installed the app into firefox on the mac, here is my review :):
The SEO Quake toolbar/plugin is available directly from http://www.seoquake.com/
Installation:
I’m installing into Firefox V2.0.0.14 on Mac OSX Leopard (10.5.2). The first window that the app presents me with is this one:
I just happened to check the alexa monitoring page for the site this morning:
When we started the experiment at 08:26BST on Fri 16th May 2008 our Alexa rank was: #1,632,224
At 13:34BST today (Wed 21st May 2008) our Alexa rank was 1,457,361 giving us a rank change of 174,863 in 5 days.
The original post on our experiment is here: http://www.hungerfordwebdesign.com/blog/seo/increase-your-alexa-rank/
I must say, the more I investigate Alexa and it’s measurement techniques, target audiences and reach, the more I am convinced that I have little concern for the rank (which actually helps me justify the experiment). Whether our rank improves or decreases really doesn’t affect my business or revenue. Anyone selling advertising, certain products etc may well benefit.
I will be summarising some of the negative aspects of Alexa in more detail shortly - This is just a ranking update post for prosterity.
(OK, the astute amongst you will notice there are four tools here - I almost forgot the most important - the SEO text browser….)
Search engine optimisation is an ever-important part of web development and design. Developers nowadays simply must have an appreciation for SEO (whilst not having to be experts) to ensure that nothing we do negatively impacts the sites we develop.
This is a list and description of some of the best tools we use to help check our sites for standards compliance, SEO and syntax checking. It’s by no means exhaustive and I’m sure others will have more/better tools. If there is something you use which you would suggest to others, please add it in a comment.
Alexa who?
Alexa.com is owned by Amazon.com. In short (for those that don’t know), it’s ONE method of demonstrating traffic levels for your website. There are pro’s and con’s to Alexa and we’ll get to them in a minute.
This is a placeholder for 2 new experiments in social engineering.
Firstly, we shall be providing a set of tips/tricks and ways to improve both Technorati and Alexa rankings.
Secondly we shall be demonstrating the success of these methods in practical simple terms. We are currently compile a set of evidence to support our claims and will then be linking to the experiments from here. Watch this space..
The first of the experiments is now live, please do help contribute and have a read about what we offer in return. How to increase your Alexa page rank
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