Before going any further you first need to know what your current PageRank is and to find this out you need to install the Google toolbar. This gives the official PageRank of your website. Download Here!

Google Update PageRank only a few times a year which gives you time to work on improving it. To key to getting a higher PageRank is to have back links to your website from other websites that have similar content that also receive high traffic.

There are tools on the web after working to increase your PageRank that you can use to roughly guess what your next PR will be. However these are not always accurate. Try one out here.

If you have a blog and want to increase the PR, try commenting on other blogs that are similar to yours. This will create back links to your website from similar content.

Other steps are to submit your website to online directories. These are free and offer a range of link types so ensure that you choose regular link. Do not just put your links on a couple you need thousands however build these links over a period of time and do not get them all at the same time because this may harm your PageRank.

It becomes harder to get a higher rank as you move up through PageRank. Most websites can easily achieve PR5 by using the methods above.

As stated in the previous post, your traffic rank is affected by the number of users that visit your website with the Alexa toolbar installed. So the more people that view your website with the Alexa toolbar installed, the higher rank you will get.

All you have to do is to get users that visit your website and those that don’t to install the toolbar. A starting point is to install it on all the computers you may use at home and if possible, your place of work if you use a computer in your job.

You can also install the toolbar on family and friends computers, although you will also need to encourage visits to your website. A tip here is to set it as the homepage so when they load the Internet that will affect your ranking.

Get the Alexa Toolbar here!

If you are using FireFox you can download this extension with Alexa Traffic Rank. This extension also lists Google PageRank.

There that’s it, nothing complicated or time consuming. Just simply install the toolbar to see an increase in rank. I am sure that there are no doubt other methods that allow you to manipulate your sites rank, however this is a simple and easy one.

Rankings are derived from three months aggregated historical traffic data. Rankings are given to top level domains only such as kashdash.com. The address subdomain.kashdash.com would be included in the rank for the top level domain.

What is Reach?

Reach is what measures the number of users and is percentage based. An example would be if Google.com had 29% reach, this indicates that 29% of web users have visited Google.com.

What are Page Views?

Page views is the measure of, you guessed it, the number of pages viewed by a user. If the same visitor visits the same page multiple times in one day it is only counted as one visit.

How can It Help Me?

If you are selling a website and you have a high Alexa traffic rank then you can inform your buyer of this ranking. The higher your rank the more money you can get from selling your website, so any increase in the number is beneficial.

It can also be used to get a rough idea of how many hits competitive websites are receiving. You can then set targets to achieve these.

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Due to issues with my usual blogging computer I am unable to blog as frequently as I would like. I am currently waiting on hardware replacement which is estimated to take about a month.

In later posts I will let you know ways to increase your Alexa Traffic Ranking.