iBlog random » seo http://blog.zurka.us Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 28 May 2013 20:28:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 Make Your Titles Dynamic with PHP http://blog.zurka.us/make-your-titles-dynamic-with-php/ http://blog.zurka.us/make-your-titles-dynamic-with-php/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 15:25:00 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=938

When developing your website, if you want to rank well in search engines it is crucial that you use different titles for every sub-page you’ve got online. This is because these search engines (Google, MSN etc) love your titles and categorize your site based on them. This is good for SEO.

This is a simple thing to accomplish using PHP but it really is very effective. I will put dumb text into them but you should use titles rich with keywords related to your niche.

$title = 'Welcome to our website!';
if (key($_REQUEST) == 'register') { $title = 'Register now'; }
if (key($_REQUEST) == '404') { $title = 'Error 404: The page is unavailable'; }
if (key($_REQUEST) == 'about') { $title = 'Who we are, what we do'; }
if (key($_REQUEST) == 'news') { $title = 'Recent news'; }

This would work if you are using urls like yoursite.com/?register, ?news etc. What it does is set a variable $title which will include the text your define according to the page we are watching. Now we need to display it in our browser.

<head>
    <title><?= $title; ?> - Your Company Name</title>
</head>

Pretty easy, isn’t it?

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Have swing!

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/make-your-titles-dynamic-with-php/feed/ 2 Design A Simple Layout In HTML and CSS (LMAWT, part 1) http://blog.zurka.us/design-simple-layout-html-css/ http://blog.zurka.us/design-simple-layout-html-css/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:15:36 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=797

Sorry for not writing recently but my laptop decided to stop working and actually it really did stop working. It has some motherboard problems again I guess, keeps dying and the keys in the last row aren’t working (except for y, b and n). So it sucks, can’t really write anything. Luckily I’ve got a very kind girlfriend who lent me her laptop so I could work. “Work”.

As I wrote in the first “lesson” (Let’s Make A Website Together), this post will be about designing a simple interface using HTML and CSS. I already wrote everything but unfortunately it went lost along with my laptop. Sucks.

So what we’ll be doing is something like the image below. Nothing complicated as you can see.. Let’s keep it simple for the beginning.

Sample page

As you can see form the image, the page will be composed by 7 elements, having the #container keep our other elements “tight” and centering the page. We will have two #menus (I will make those menus simple, links only, without the use of ordered/unordered lists), a #header with the logo, a #sidebar with the latest news and our favorite links, the #content where we will load our content and the #footer with the copyright notice or our email, whatever we want.

So let’s start at the beginning. We need to open our new document, write some lines in and save it as index.php. I usually write the same lines in every file I start and save it, so it is there in the folder, waiting to be updated. And I save my work after everything I make, even for just a smaller change.. I got used to this because once the electricity went off and I lost like 2 hours of work. After all the CTRL+S combo is not that hard to hit and it can for sure spare a lot of bad mood (or nerves).

Okay so let’s see the first few lines of code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>My First Website</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=windows-1250" />
            <meta name="keywords" content="this, is, my, first, website" />
            <meta name="description" content="Creating my first website by scratch. It's a simple one but good for learning." />
    </head>
    <body>

    </body>
</html>

As you can see, I start my project like every webpage should start, with the DOCTYPE declaration, so keep the first two lines somewhere you can easily find them and copy/paste them into your new projects. We then open the HEAD part of the site in which we put our page title, charset, styles, meta keywords, the meta description and everything that we have to load before the rest of the page. For the charset I usually use windows-1250 encoding since I’m from Slovenia and I use special charactes like č, Å¡ and ž and I don’t really like UTF-8. The meta keywords and description are used by the search engines which get an idea about what our site will be talking about and rank you higher in the results. The description will be shown in the search result of a search engine. It is the text that you see under the site’s title.

google

In the head I also load my style.css file which will include the (guess what?) style of the page. It is best to load an external file since it gets stored into the cache of the browser and helps the site load faster.

As you can see I open and close the BODY tag and then close the HTML tag. I save the file and I go make myself a sandwich. It’s time to start working. From now on I will write the code that comes between the body tags.

I will now put down the HTML part, explain it and then go to the CSS part, put it down, explain and confront the results I get. The HTML part is going to be without styles and since the DIV is a block element, all of our site elements will be listed one under the other, in the hierarchy I put them in the code. Let’s start.

<div id="container">

    <div id="top-menu">
        home | contant | sitemap
    </div>

    <div id="header">
        Our big fat logo comes here
    </div>

    <div id="main-menu">
        home | news | members | whatever | link
    </div>

    <div id="main-content">
        Something really nice here, this will be our content soon.
    </div>

    <div id="sidebar">
        My friends:
    </div>

    <div id="footer">
        &copy; 2009 OurSiteName.Domain
    </div>

</div>

I created a file with these lines in it so you can see our result. It’s basically nothing but 6 lines of text written one under the other which we are now going to style using Cascading Style Sheets.

I start by wrapping everything in the #container div, to which I will define a specific width, position on the page and everything else I want to style inside of it. Since the layout will be simple the only thing you need to understand is what will happen to the #content and #sidebar divs. We will float them one next to the other. Floats are a bit hard to understand since they can get pretty tricky and we very often have problems with them because of the incompatibility between web browsers (it’s not an incompability between them but they render the site in a different way), like for example Firefox and Internet Explorer. I have to admit that I lost my nerves lots of times because of IE, mainly because of IE6, but I can see nobody actually cares about IE6 nowadays since it’s being replaced by IE7.. But I still see many users use it so I think we should take it into consideration as well.. But it’s a lot of work, including hacks and so on, we are not gonna do this in this lesson. Maybe when we finish the site, we are going to look into tweaking it some more.

Let’s start with the styling. I will do this step by step, so you can see or results as we keep on going on. We put the following code in the style.css that we put in the same folder as our index.php file.

/* here I style the body, select the font size and family and background color */
body { font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; background: #f8f8f8; }

#container {
width: 800px;
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
background: white;
border: solid 1px black;
}

What I do to the container is define the width of 800px, “paint” it in white, give it a simple solid border and position it relatively and center it using the MARGIN property. See the result by yourself. Please note that I’m using html files for now since I didn’t install apache and php on this laptop and can’t use .php files locally. And if you check the source code of that file you will see that I am putting the styling directly into it and not into the style.css file. It works the same but reloads every time so the loading time takes longer but it really doesn’t matter with such small codes. Anyway, you put it into the style.css file and you’ll be fine.

#top-menu {
background: #55bdda;
text-align: right;
padding: 5px 10px;
}

#header {
background: #3a8195;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20px;
color: white;
padding: 40px 0;
}

#main-menu {
background: #244f5c;
color: white;
padding: 5px 10px;
}

With this I’ve styled the top part of the site, including as you can see the top menu, header and main menu. Every property is self explanatory except for the padding, which I’ll try to explain now. The padding is basically the space that you make between the border of the box and the content of the same box. The values of this property are like this: padding: TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT. Why did I write only two values then? Because if we leave them out, they will get the same value as their opposite. So in that statement I say the padding should be 5px 10px 5px 10px.

EXAMPLE
padding and margin example

Since I know I explained this in a shitty way, I suggest you read the w3schools article about padding. But the main point is that the padding will push your text to the inside of it’s container. See the result here.

Now that we styled the head we move on to the body and footer. Let’s see the code.

#main-content {
width: 550px;
padding: 10px;
background: #cee1e6;
float: left;
}

#sidebar {
background: #007394;
color: white;
padding: 10px;
float: left;
width: 210px;
}

#footer {
clear: both;
background: #163741;
color: white;
text-align: right;
padding: 5px 10px;
}

Since I will be floating the content and sidebar, I have to use a little bit of mathematics now. At least that’s how I do it. What we do now is define the width of the sidebar. Let’s say that we want it 230px wide so we have 570px for our content. Do make the content of the sidebar clearer, we are going to give our box the padding property, so we move the text into the center a little. We are goingo to apply a 10px padding on each side, so we will define the width to 230px – 10px*2 = 210px and float it to the left.
Now we have 570px for our main content. But since we want this box to be clear as well, we apply the same padding as to te sidebar. So here, we again have 570px – 20px = 550px od width. We float this box to the left as well.

Now that we have floated the content and sidebar, we kinda messed up with the layout and it’s “path”. If we now style the footer without taking the floats in consideration, the footer will come out messed up. Lifted a bit or maybe even in a position that it’s not what it should be. To save ourself from this mess we must clear the footer. To clear means telling the box that we don’t want it to be touching other elements according to the value that we clear it with. In this case we clear it with a both value, which means it won’t touch anything on the left and on the right side. This makes it slide down and fix itself like it should.

Check our today’s final result here.

One last thing, make you have a good host, not some terrible fly by night operation. You can find the best cheap web hosting plans and if you’re a super serious person, a dedicated server.

I’m sorry if anything wasn’t clear, I’m sleepy and my head will explode but I had to write it. I will go through it again today and correct the mistakes and make things clearer.

If there’s any question on your mind don’t hesitate to ask it, I will be happy to reply you.

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/design-simple-layout-html-css/feed/ 5 My "Make Money Online" experiment: Waka.us http://blog.zurka.us/wakaus/ http://blog.zurka.us/wakaus/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:52 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=742

I picked an old domain I had and wasn’t used and made… a blog out of it of course :)

It has a bad rank in Alexa (22M+) and PR0 and small value (except for the domain value that shows to be ~$2M :D

I read so many things about SEO and earning money with a blog that I just can’t resist the temptation to try some of the tricks.. I will try to optimize it and make it rank better. Let’s see how much work and time will I spend to reach a nice position…

Will you help me? Your comments would be very much appreciated!

http://waka.us/

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/wakaus/feed/ 7 Google, Adsense, SEO, and How It All Works http://blog.zurka.us/google-adsense-seo-and-how-it-all-works/ http://blog.zurka.us/google-adsense-seo-and-how-it-all-works/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:06:16 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=726

Google uses an algorithm to determine the search engine results (SERPS). The algorithm is based upon certain factors that include keyword density, Meta Tags, anchor tags, image tags, back links, etc etc etc.

If your site is optimized for specific keywords than you will rank better in the search engines. There are many factors but onsite optimization is a must. You can research and fine out the information yourself or hire and SEO. I have put together some Free Basics on www.seo4dummies.com

Overture shows you the bid price of certain keywords. Wordtracker show you the amount the term is searched. You can use www.nichebot.com a free tool to see all this at once.

You can research keywords free online with these various tools.

www.nichebot.com ( my personal SEO Favorite)

http://www.webmasterautomation.com/cgi-bin/keywordtool.cgi

http://www.keyworddensity.com ( Keyword density analyzer )

Adsense / Adwords.

Google Adwords have a bid price to display certain "keyword terms". Think of Adwords as TV commercials. Webmasters can put Adsense on there websites. Think of Adsense as the TV Program. If a viewer of your webpage clicks on one of your ads, you get a commission. That commission is based upon the price of the Adword. Google keeps about 60% of the bid price and passes about 40% to the webmaster or Adsense account.

The way the Adsense ads are displayed is determined by the Keyword Density of your individual sites. If you site is prominently about "say Dogs" then the Adsense will display ads about Dogs. However, Google in its new business model is now tracking IP numbers and providing more local ads. Think of the local TV commercials. They are not as expensive as the National Ads. Therefore you may have local ads that are displayed on your site that have only a$0.03 payout rather than a $5.00 payout.

If you optimize you site for your theme, or content, then you can generate more traffic to you sites based upon your keywords. The Google Adsense, will display ads relevant to your topics. If they are not displaying ads to our topic, then you must adjust your Density of your keywords in the body of text of the page.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the practice of changing your website, so that it is spider friendly. If your site is brand new it will take a few months for Google to index your site and be visible in the SERPs. This is known as the "Google sandbox theory". Aged sites should already be indexed as long as the site has something for the spiders to grab. Excessive graphics, java scripts, PHP sessions are all not spider friendly.

To get spiders to come to your site often and grab your data, you must have links from outside websites to your site. This is the Coveted Page Rank factor. Page rank is only a factor of the amount of incoming and outgoing links to your site. Only a small percentage of Page Rank is attributed to the Google Algorithm for Search Engine Results at this time.

Spiders follow links, once there are links established the spiders will Crawl, your sites. They will gather minimal information. Several Weeks to months later, the spiders will Deep crawl you site and index all that is available. To speed this process along, back links or links to other sites is a must. The more links the spider can travel to get to your site the better. Linking to like minded topics is always best. You don’t need to buy LINKS. You can acquire links via posts in forums, writing and submitting articles, using a Blog post, submitting to SEO friendly directories.

To view the spider activity on your site, first go to your traffic stats. Look for the googlebots. See how often they come and the amount of data they have "grabbed". You can also go to Google itself and if you are indexed view the Cache of your page. That cache date is a good indication of the last true crawl of your site.

To see if you are indexed go to Google and type in the search box, site:www.yourwebsite.com ( make sure the word site is not Capitalized and you replace he words your website with your actual URL). View the results. You should also repeat the process and this time leave out the www. , and just enter the site:yourwebsite.com Sometime webmasters leave out the www., but then look for Google using the www. Or link to sites using the www. Either way is fine, just pick one version and be consistent with www. Or non www throughout your website career.

As the spiders come to your site they will start to grab information, that information is sorted and returns the SERPS. Did you know that there are different DataCenters throughout the world that Hold that information? If you ask a friend on the say East Cost to search for a term and tell you where you site is in the SERPS, they result on the West cost may be completely different. As much as 5-10 or more positions depending on the activity of that keyword.

Ok that’s enough for today.

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/google-adsense-seo-and-how-it-all-works/feed/ 1 Build Link Popularity The Smart Way http://blog.zurka.us/build-link-popularity-the-smart-way/ http://blog.zurka.us/build-link-popularity-the-smart-way/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:37:11 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=724

A Brief Introduction To Link Popularity

As webmasters research various ways to get more traffic to their site one method that is gaining more and more publicity is Link Popularity. Link Popularity is the number of links that point to your website as measured by the search engines. In theory if your site has many sites linking to it then it is considered to be a valuable resource on the particular topic so the search engines will give it a higher ranking.

The Problem

As with many rules/laws eventually people found a way to manipulate it. Sites were created solely to build the link popularity of other sites. These sites are called ‘Link Farms’ and contributed to the pollution of search engine results. They increased the search engine rankings of many sites that did not deserve the position they received.

Eventually the search engines caught on to this deception and some such as Google adjusted their algorithms accordingly. Google now penalizes websites associated with Link Farms imposing penalties they deem appropriate based on the site and the scenario. Many people that felt the effects of this penalization were fairly innocent, well that is if you consider ignorance to be an alibi. They simply did not know that what they were doing was wrong; some even paid for SEO services and were victims of bad services.

As the search engines change their algorithms aiming to reduce fraudulent activities by webmasters, more and more ways are conceived to manipulate them, and so the battle continues.

An Honest Link Building Strategy

Getting quality links to your site from related resources is not always as easy as some make it sound. The key word here is ‘quality’. It is a very time consuming process and involves the following steps:

  • Search for quality sites that are related to yours.
  • Contact the Webmaster of the related site.
  • Wait for a response from them.
  • Swap links if the response is positive.

There are also some automated methods of doing this that speed up the process, however, I would not recommend any of them and hence won’t list them in this article.

So you have started your link building campaign and are hopefully seeing the results. Now you say this is great but how can I make this process more efficient and effective without risking your good standings with the search engines.

Here is the solution.

The Smart Way To Build Link Popularity.

One thing webmasters are always looking for, and find hard to refuse, is good quality content. If you are knowledgeable on a particular topic that is related to your site, writing informative articles is a great way to gain your website additional link popularity. If you are reading this article and are not reading it on http://www.lilengine.com then there is your proof.

If you don’t consider yourself a writer don’t worry, you don’t have to be. Get your article in the best shape you possibly can and then have others, who you consider to be better at writing than you are, look it over. Make your edits and there you go.

How is writing articles efficient and effective?

Well-written articles do take time to produce but as you write more you will get better and will find that it starts to take less and less time. This method offers several more benefits than the linking method listed above. These are as follows:

  • Articles are, in most cases, permanent additions to sites.
  • Writing Articles demonstrates your knowledge of various industry related topics and this helps to build credibility.
  • If users are interested enough to read your entire article then there’s a very good chance that they will click on your link to visit your site in hopes of learning more or even just out of curiosity.
  • You are able to include several links with articles. You can have several links in the resource box also known as the bylines as well as in any ‘appropriate’ spots in the article.
  • You have the ‘option’ of including your affiliate links in the article if it includes information on that resource.
  • You also get to add this content to your own website.
  • If you include reprint information in the bylines then others that read the article, and feel it would be a valuable addition to their site, will add it and then it becomes almost viral. It spreads even though you are not doing a thing.

Summary

Building link popularity is a vital part to your search engine ranking and should be approached in either of the two methods listed above that you feel is more appropriate for your individual situation. The benefits from writing, however, far outweigh those of requesting reciprocal links in most situations. Hopefully this article has helped to shed some light on this and will encourage more knowledgeable people to start sharing their knowledge with others. For more information on Link Popularity visit http://www.lilengine.com

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/build-link-popularity-the-smart-way/feed/ 0 Keyword Popularity Check http://blog.zurka.us/keyword-popularity-check/ http://blog.zurka.us/keyword-popularity-check/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:17:26 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=719

Before using keywords for your site, it is always better to check for the popularity of these sub theme keywords. Some or all of the tools mentioned in the keywords tools section could be utilized to measure the popularity of these keywords.

Based on the popularity count of these tools we should come up with a descending order listing of our most unused but good key phrase. These are our good target keywords. As the competition increases on the keywords, deeper optimization then just building keyword specific pages will have to be done.

Variations on sub- theme words:

This is the word- play to get into the mind of the user.

Now our set of 25 to 30 keywords will be expanded to include singular-plural word combinations, juxtaposing the same words in a different combination, using synonyms, building on the list of words using Thesaurus & a good dictionary.

The ideal set of keywords/ key phrases is to come up with around 70-100 possible ways of looking for that web site on the search engines (our keyphrases)

Research on these variations of the sub theme keywords for actually combing up with the combinations that are relatively un optimized for yet popular. At the end of this exercise we will have the ranked list of keywords, which we can start optimizing for.

General observations & other nuggets:

When using google to check for the competing pages through the SERP house the keyphrase in quotes. This will do the exact phrase searching for the phrase that we are optimizing for. Now to have a real feel of the actual competition on this phrase use the adword tool.

Typically offline competition for the business & online competition are not equivalent. The client needs to be driven out of this mindset. Online the competition for us depends on the key-phrases that we choose rather then the industry or the competition chosen keywords.

Another useful tip is to watch out for the ranking of the subpages on the SERPS page.

A higher occurenec of a sub- page suggests a lesser competitive key- phrase.

Keep excel sheets handy to work out on your key words

Here is a benchmark: If the site is fairly well optimized, and has a focused theme, then the combined total number of visitors from secondary variations of the main keyword phrase, should be higher than the number of visitors from your main phrase by itself.

Another yardstick can be that 20% of your search traffic reach you through your primary theme words. Another 20% through the sub theme words & their combos & the remaining 60% is fractional. A true pyramid.

Keep the keyword density on your pages in between 5-20% while optimizing. The latest talking optimization based on keywords is that almost none of the things mentioned above might apply as it is. You create text based on the end user perspective & optimize for 5-6 keywords per page. Check your referrer stats & fine tune optimization.

Free Keyword Tools:

The first tool that can be used is Overture.

One trick is to check the keywords on all the Overture tools, US, UK, DE, FR and even JP. You would be surprised at the ideas you can come up with on the other O Tools that do not appear on the US one. Also, the de-pluralizing and match-drive-alphabetization some times does not appear on the other tools. Second tool of course is the word tracker.

Use Google adwords to check on the competition for the chosen phrases using the CPC barometer. Higher the CPC more the competition.

Another tool is at:

http://espotting.com/popups/keywordgenbox.asp

Yet another tool is Alta Vista “PRISMA”

One can use Refine search option of Teoma to arrive at more generic/Primary keywords. Another way of doing that could be through the DMOZ subcategory study.

Refining of key words can be done using the Server side data or the referrs log.

7Search.com’s Keyword Suggestion Tool

http://conversion.7search.com/scripts/advertisertools/keywordsuggestion.aspx

More tools in here:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/Online_Tools/Keywords/

Once the keywords have been finalized lets look at the places where we can utilize them.

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/keyword-popularity-check/feed/ 2 How To Get a High Pagerank http://blog.zurka.us/how-to-get-a-high-pagerank/ http://blog.zurka.us/how-to-get-a-high-pagerank/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:42:05 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=717

Everyone knows that if your website has a high Google Pagerank, you have all chances to reach good search engine positions, to get serious partners, or simply get more money selling text links.

But how to get a high Pagerank? (Let’s clarify: saying ‘high Pagerank’, we mean at least PR6)

Of course there are many different ways. You may start exchanging links with PR1-2 websites, then with PR2-3, then with PR3-4 etc? and after a year of this madness you’ll probably get a result. But till that time, your mailbox will burst from tons of "link exchange proposals" and your website will look more like a free-for-all directory. Or you may start writing articles adding your website URL in the bottom, but not everyone can do this, and it’ll also require many months of efforts.

But here’s the better way!

There are many websites with strong search engine positions and high Pagerank, where you can buy text links for a certain fee. Depending on the strength of a website and the value of its links, it may cost from $10 to $3000 (and more) for a ROS (run-of-site) text link. Everything will depend on your budget and goals. If your goal is PR6 – it may cost for example $200 per month to reach it. Yes, it’s not cheap, but it’s only the first step?

So, you go ahead and buy the link(s); and after the next Pagerank update (generally once a month), you get your fair PR6 (let’s suppose that it takes 1 month and $200).

During the second month you need to hurry up, and to organize several link exchange campaigns with other PR6 (or even PR7) websites. Remember: you’re not a newbie any more – you’re "PR6 website".

3-5 campaigns should be enough. This month will also cost you $200? BUT? after the end of the month, when you have several working link exchange campaigns, you simply stop buying text links and wait for the next update.

If you made everything correctly, you will not loose your Pagerank (maybe even increase it).

So here’s the simple way to reach PR6 for quite reasonable price. Or course $400 may be a big amount for a young webmaster or a newbie. But it’ll save you from many months of exhausting work, from headaches; and it’ll save your time. Finally, you’ll also be able to sell your own text links in order to return your investments.

Good luck.

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/how-to-get-a-high-pagerank/feed/ 1 Simple SEO tips by Google http://blog.zurka.us/simple-seo-tips-by-google/ http://blog.zurka.us/simple-seo-tips-by-google/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:07:08 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=709

If you are new to Search Engine Optimization, you can read what Google engineers suggests you to do, to improve your website ranking. The guide is made for all webmasters of all levels and for sites of any kind, so it will definitely fit your case.

Read more on their Webmaster Central Blog or download the PDF file directly.

Remember that optimizing your site will bring you more free traffic.. which means more earnings if you advertise on your site!

Good luck!

]]> http://blog.zurka.us/simple-seo-tips-by-google/feed/ 0 3 Easy Tips to Improve your Alexa Ranking http://blog.zurka.us/improve-your-alexa-ranking/ http://blog.zurka.us/improve-your-alexa-ranking/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:18:50 +0000 nasal http://blog.zurka.us/?p=683

Why should you increase your Alexa Ranking?

Alexa Rank is based on the level of visits your site recieves from people that have the Alexa Toolbar installed on their system. So why is it important? Since many web developers use this toolbar, this rank has become a very important factor to advertising services like Text Link Ads, ReviewMe and others, which tend to determine the worth of the links you sell on your site according to your Alexa Rank.

DoshDosh suggested 20 quick ways to increase Alexa Ranking and I suggest you reading them. I’m using three of those (the easiest) and I must admit it is working, this blog gained about 600.000 ranks in two weeks and is now gaining like 30.000 places per week (but I guess it’s because it’s easy to come under the million rank) and another site gained more then 9.000.000 places in one week (but again, it was from 17.000.000 to 8.000.000).

What did I do?

Did you ever try to increase your Alexa Ranking? What did you do?

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