Alexa rank has become one of my obsession beside daily traffic. I don’t care whether Alexa is less important than Google PR or it doesn’t affect the amount of work I receive from advertiser.

The only reason why I obsessed with it is because of the numbers. I like to see improvement and how the numbers goes up and up. The higher, the better. Higher traffic, higher alexa rank, higher income, etc. The only thing that I don’t like to see it getting higher is fuel price and daily things’ price.

Get back to Alexa rank. I have done a trial to increase it. No strategy for international taxes knowledge is needed. Just simple steps of installing Alexa toolbar on my firefox & set my blog as the homepage and put up Alexa widget on my blog. It worked. Previously it was at 3.626.533. On May 10th, the rank has increased to 1.924.930.

It was said that Alexa has changed the calculation system. My Alexa rank stayed at 1.924.930 for the past 2 weeks until yesterday I noticed the increment again. It is at 1.769.104. Not a tremendous increment like last time, but still it’s a good thing for moving from 1.9 million to 1.7 million rank.

I tried and it works! Let’s flash back.

I stumbled upon Doshdosh article about ’20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank’. The post is one year old already so some of the tips might not work now. But, whatever, I won’t know if I don’t try.

So I took the very basic tips which is to install the Alexa toolbar on my Firefox and set my blog as the homepage. I used ‘SearchStatus 1.24′ that not only display Alexa rank but also Google Page Rank. And I still keep my google toolbar, to double check the PR. Next, put up Alexa Rank widget on my blog and put aside the other 18 tips.

It was said that Alexa rank will change in 3-4 days. So, I post like usual and traffic is quite good. After waiting, today I see the Alexa rank has increased from 3.000.XXX to 1.924.930. Total increase 1,701,603 in 3-4 days time.

Some said Alexa has changed the calculation system. Another one said this tips will work if your rank is still in the million number. And so on so on. Bleh, whatever, read too much can confuse myself.

After all, I just want to prove the tips. It seems to be quite fun. *Back to work*