So my WordPress upgrade seems successful and things look like they are working smoothly so business back to normal..I guess. I read an article by Maki of DoshDosh.com that talks about ways to increase your Alexa Ranking. For those of you who are not familiar with Alexa which was founded in April 1996 and bases it’s traffic results on the users of it’s Alexa toolbar. Maki mentions that this is part of the reason why results are skewed as SEO/Webmaster websites usually install the Alexa toolbar and may effect rankings.

Maki continues to stress developing quality content which will in turn attract great links which will naturally increase your Alexa ranking. What most interested me was the “20 Quick Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank” checklist. I’m going to monitor the results here and report back whenever there’s an update. Originally last year I was able to get this blog to rank around 300 somethings and since it seemed kinda easy I took it for granted. I just keep posting and every time the ranking would get lower (which in Alexa terms means better….for those among us that don’t know). I changed my template and use different plugins however I didn’t think that would make a difference but I could be wrong. Here’s an image of my Alexa rank as of February 5th 2008

I’ve added the Alexa widget on the right as you can see. I’ll continue to post frequently about Alexa and see what my results are. Take care everyone and talk soon.