A couple of weeks ago I posted on ways to increase your Alexa Rank.

The Alexa Rank is taken into account to determine reimbursement rates for most affiliate programs. My ranking was not good.

I’m glad I checked it. For whatever reasons, my blog had not been spidered by Alexa for over a year. That would account for the low ranking - TA-DA! So I updated my blog information and filled out the little form to have my blog spidered. A message popped up that told me it would take a few weeks to get that done. I have no idea why it takes weeks, but at least the process is started.

Even without my blog being updated on Alexa in so long, my rating has improved SLIGHTLY by following the other suggestions made over at Connected Internet.

You can check out your Alexa stats here. While you are there pick up one of their widgets and install it on your website. Your rating improves as you visit other blogs that use Alexa rankings.

As a reminder - here are steps you can take to improve you Alexa rank:

  1. Document your current rate (I added that).
  2. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
  3. Add an Alexa rank widget on your website.
  4. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers.
  5. Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.military.rightpundits.com. Replace military.rightpundits.com with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help.

Again from Connected Internet

I forgot to write down my rank. It started out at 496,606. At the time of writing this post it was 481,313. As of 6.6.2007 the rank is 456,220. Not great, but improving.