You know what an Alexa rank is, right? If you don’t then OMG! Don’t worry I’m just joking. Its basically a rank given to a site according to their traffic.

How Alexa gathers info

Maybe you don’t know about this. It calculates the traffic rank by monitoring the sites their users go to. But, what if a lot of your visitors don’t use the Alexa toolbar? Oh then your rank will be pretty bad. Their method of collecting traffic info sucks. There are probably better ways to collect it.

How to boost it

Its pretty simple. Just install the toolbar. Go to your site often and set it as your homepage. And also ask your friends to do the same. If you work in an office or school then install the toolbar on all computers and you know the rest.

Cybercafes! Go to a few cybercafes and make friends with the manager or owner over there. Make sure that they start to like you and stuff. Then ask them to install the toolbar on all computers and set your site as the homepage. If needed give them some money.

A really nice trick. Alexa doesn’t care about the IP. So take advantage of it. Make a stupid page on your site and code it to refresh it self every 30 seconds. Just get the toolbar installed and every 30 second it will count as a visit. And make sure that there is no AdSense on that page.

And of course, social bookmarking. Get people to digg or stumble your site. There are also other autosurf softwares, but I wouldn’t recommend you using them since Alexa could ban you and so will AdSense (they will think that you are trying to get fake page impressions).

Where it stops

Once you go around 100,000 you can’t use these tricks to go up anymore. You’ll need real traffic to increase it. There’s just too much competition around 100K.

And don’t really worry about Alexa rank. I’ll post about that later. And if you have any other tricks then feel free to tell us about them.

Update: Just to prove that this works, Whooked’s Alexa rank jumped from 800K to 300K. And so did my blogs. Not bad, huh?

You made a new site. Not a lot of traffic. You want help with advertising and want loads of traffic. And here’s where I come in and save the day – yeah I’m superman.

Now where you advertise really depends on your targeted audience. Advertising anime site in a tech forum won’t work. So you get my point? Okay now lets talk about some places in general that will help you.

Places that will bring traffic

Digital Point forums: This is one of the most active forums I’ve ever seen and the members over there know what they are talking about. Now you can get a good amount of traffic from this site. Open an account and put your site’s link in the signature and start posting (make sure that they are good quality posts and don’t spam).

If you don’t want to spend your time posting there. Then go over here and you’ll find a lot of people willing to post for you for a couple of bucks. And if you hire someone make sure that he/she doesn’t spam.

PayPerPost: This is a new site where you can pay bloggers to blog about you. Not a lot of bloggers and advertisers at the moment, but its still good. Make an account there and start getting people to blog about you. Its pretty cheap. Bloggers there would do it for $10 probably.

PayPerPost also gives you the ability to indicate in the posts if it was a sponsored or not. I would recommend that you don’t reveal that it was a sponsored one. You want it to look real.

StumbleUpon: A great social bookmarking site. You can get a good amount of traffic from this site only if you do things smart. First of all, make sure that you don’t just bookmark all your sites. Like bookmark a few other random sites and also yours. That will give your bookmarks a lot more value and won’t be flagged as spam.

Try finding people who have been using StumbleUpon for a long time. Ask them to bookmark your site. Or if you can’t find people then do like a bookmarking exchange. You bookmark someone else’s site and they will bookmark yours.

Digg: Another great social bookmarking site. Just do the same as StumbleUpon. One more thing, Digg works best with blogs, news sites, videos and forums.

Other ways to advertise

Comment on popular blogs, upload an unique video on YouTube, use Google AdWords, and make a big chain mail. Oh and Facebook and MySpace. Don’t forget them. Find someone popular on Facebook and MySpace (with a lot of friends) and ask them to send a message to everyone about your site.

A small gift

Well its not really a gift or something. But if you guys want to use AdWords then use this link to signup and you’ll get a $50 credit. Make sure that you stop advertising after you spent $50 or else it will charge you.

So try these tips out and you’ll surely get a good amount of visitors. And one more thing, never spam! Yeah don’t spam. It might get you a bit of traffic at first but in the long run it doesn’t work.

Now there are a lot of blogs out there and that means competition. A lot more competition everyday. And you want your blog to be a popular and successful one. Well you could say that you want some traffic to your blog. So, right now I’ll tell you about some stuff that could get you some traffic.

First of all, we all know that people love free stuff! Yeah you can’t say that people don’t like free stuff. People will even take the crappiest thing, if its free. So, I think you know what I’m going to say. Yeah give some free stuff to people. Now it doesn’t have to be something big or like something that you will have to ship it to them. Give them something like a template, fonts, scripts, e-books and there are tons of stuff that you can give them. People really appreciate free stuff. Well sometimes there might be an exception. Lets not talk about that.

You want your blog to have it’s own domain name which is pretty easy to remember. Now of course, it would be pretty difficult to remember a long URL and you can also say that it is a negative side. And you want to blog about something particular. But then again it’s not always possible, like I blog about a lot of different things but they are somewhat related. But try to stick to a general topic like technology. Where you might write only about cameras or you could even talk about cameras, cellphones, computers, etc. But I would also suggest that you don’t blog on stuff like dragons. Because you wouldn’t really have a lot to right about them.

Another thing that you could do is, comment on other blogs. Now I’m talking about comments which are relevant to the post and not spam. When you comment on other blogs (especially popular ones), people might like your comments and then visit your blog if there is link. Or you could even provide a URL to a post that you wrote and it’s related to the post on the other blog(s).

There are tons of things you could do. But what really matters is that if your content is good or not. Your blog has to provide the best information on the topic that you write about and not just be a good one.