Big Foot Web Marketing

I have tried this on a few sites and without fail all of the sites Alexa ranking went up significantly. I am going to try here.
I have just moved the site over to this sever as well as revamped an energized it in last month … so will be a good opportunity.

One of the techniques used to manipulate Alexa traffic ranking is placing the Alexa Traffic Rank button on your site. I have no REAL evidence that it works. I know that sites I placed the tool on went up- but that could be any number of factors.

Get Better Alexa Rankings

Looks like this:

At the time of this posting, November 4, 2007 the Alexa ranking is 1,508,140 . And yes, this is a crappy number, especially for a site that is owned by a site owner specializes in rankings. I neglected this domain for a long time and then moved it and basically starting from scratch. Will be a good opportunity to implement techniques and see how they are working in real time.

Why should you care about Alexa? I am not sure if you should, but I know some advertisers do- so at worst you should be aware of its existence and its impact. Alexa is supposed to measure traffic to your site. Not what kind or targeted just plain traffic. Some advertisers think that more traffic is always better. As value is a perception and not a real thing then a good ranking in Alexa can mean more money for you.

I have found than you can manipulate and get a higher Alexa ranking if the Alexa’s developer widget, Alexa Traffic Ranking tool is installed. You can get your own here: http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup. Takes about 2 minutes or less to do.

Watch My Alexa Traffic Rankings Go Up… or not

Be sure and check back and see if my Alexa ranking has gone up.

Alexa Traffic Rank History

April 15 2009 126,810
April 3, 2009 131,404
Feb. 26, 2009 146,456
Dec. 2, 2008 172,432
October 10, 2008 208,892
July 18, 2008 210, 968
June 24, 2008 211,646
June 11, 2008 228,782
June 9,2008 240,742
May 27, 2008 287,423
May 21, 2008 292,500
April 21, 2008 463,299
April 10 , 2008 576,346
April 3, 2008 631,993
March 28 . 2008 659, 168
March 25, 2008 701, 672
Mar. 9, 2008 735,844
February 29, 2008 396,461
January 30, 2008 343,947
January 21, 2008 346,861
January 15,2008 359,355
January 5, 2008 378,491
December 27, 2007 376,599
December 8, 2007 397,789
December 5, 2007 449,409
November 22, 2007 546,670
November 18, 2007 762,255
November 12, 2007 1,081,050
November 7, 2007 : 1,170,542
November 4 , 2007 : 1,508,140

What’s Your ranking? Would love sites to post when they first install the Alexa Traffic Ranking Widget . Just post your site name, URL , date and current traffic rank below. Let us know what results you have.
I think I may post a page just for this purpose…

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Page Rank Tools and Page Rank Checkers

These are Google Page Rank Checkers that I can recommend- they do what they say they will do. A rare quality in a web tool.

Smart Page Rank

This might be one of the best Page Rank reporting tools I have come across. It list Google page rank from multiple datacenters, give Alexa page rank status, gives age of domain, lists whether the site is listed in DMOZ.org directory and yahoo directory, will also list- fairly accurately- how many of the sites pages are indexed in Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista and All the Web Directories and all that without asking for captcha! ( I am blind in one eye and captchas are PARTICULARLY annoying to me).
One other tool on the site- a backlink checker does something I like- it will check your backlinks- but will also let you check back
links with nofollow attributes. It does not check multiple sites in one shot.

Dig Page Rank This works quite well. Reports from multiple data centers.I like it.

iWeb Tools Page Rank Checker
This is one of the more annoying ones. You are quite likely to get an “insufficient back links” message for no reason.

http://www.checkpagerank.com/ Very Basic. Checks both Alexa and Google, and that’s it.

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Phishing Filter is designed to warn you if the website you are visiting might be impersonating a trusted website. Phishing Filter does this by first checking the address of the website you are visiting against a list of website addresses stored on your computer that have been reported to Microsoft as legitimate (“legitimate list”). (…) addresses not on the legitimate list will be sent to Microsoft and checked against a frequently updated list of websites that have been reported to Microsoft as phishing, suspicious, or legitimate websites. (…) the address of the website you are visiting will be sent to Microsoft, together with some standard information from your computer such as IP address, browser type, and Phishing Filter version number. To help protect your privacy, the address information sent to Microsoft is encrypted using SSL and limited to the domain and path of the website. Other information that may be associated with the address, such as search terms, data you entered in forms, or cookies, will not be sent.

Visit Microsoft’s website for more information on its Phishing Filter. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/antiphishing/faq.mspx

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Not sure if your feeds are working properly? I was surprised to find during a routine check that on one of my blogs- that appeared to be working smoothly- there was a conflict and in fact the feed wasn;t working at all- it just kept returning the main page. At any rate- this handy tools, Feed Validator will not only check that your RSS an Atom feed are working but will make suggestions on how to tweak.
I was surprised at the number of errors it picked up- all for free!

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