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Thursday, March 27th, 20085 Tips for Increasing your Alexa Rank without cheating!
Thursday, March 27th, 20085 tips for increasing your Alexa rank without cheating
When I started Nigerian Entrepreneur, my Alexa ranking was well over 5million. However, this morning, approximately 3weeks after, I have my ranking reading 610,255. I did not do anything spectacular to get the present ranking, just the usual tips suggested by more experienced bloggers. Find the tips below, they sure will add a boost to your ranking.
5 Quick Tips to Increase Your Website Alexa Ranking
- Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. If you work in an office, get everyone in the office to install the toolbar and set your site as their homepage.
- Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
- Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
- Use your URL as signature in forums and social media sites. This will naturally increase human traffic to your site and that will sure increase your ranking.
- Get listed on as many search engines as possible. I learnt that if a blog gets a free listing in DMOZ then it will get a lot of traffic since it is the largest human edited directory on the web (I am yet to get listed, if you have any idea on how to do it, let me know :-)).
You don’t need to Cheat to Increase Your Alexa Ranking
I have come across several articles suggesting tricks for cheating the system. They are not worth it. Remember it is a matter of time, a cheat will eventually get caught!
- Don’t use auto-surf scripts or auto-refreshing web-pages, you will only eventually get into trouble.
- Don’t use Alexa redirect it no longer works.
Those 5 tips for increasing your alexa rank requires no cheating. Use them and see your alexa rank increase. You can get free updates to the post 5 tips for increasing your alexa rank without cheating by subscribing to my RSS feed. See you at the top 🙂
Why you should start your online business with a blog?
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008In my previous posts, I discussed some of the challenges that a serious online Entrepreneur will encounter on his/her way to success. The last post How to choose an online business, gave useful suggestions on how a newbie can choose the best business to start online. Today, I want to go a step further by providing a launch pad for those that are still confused on which type of business they should embark on (despite all that have been written on the subject).
Start a blog. Start it now. Yes, the easiest way to start an online business is by starting a blog. If you want a definition, here is one “A blog is a weB log. It is simply an online journal or diary where you write anything and everything, it all depends on you” It is yours. You have the freedom to make it your private turf, your private closet (open to selected few) or a public dump-ground (everyone is welcome). It all depends on your taste and passion 😉
Why should you start your online business with a blog? – The answer is simple
You Can Earn Legitimate Income Online From Nigeria – Part 2
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008How do I earn income online? You earn income online by identifying people’s need and supplying solution to the needs. That sounds simple isn’t it? (The answer is simple, but putting that into action can be quite demanding.)
There are myriads of legitimate business one can do online. Some require no skill and no prior experience, while some require professional training and commitment of huge capital. Basically, all online business can be categorized under two broad headings:
- Selling Products – This can further be split into several categories, e.g. Physical Products and Virtual Products.
- Selling Services – This can further be split into several categories, e.g. Physical Services and Virtual Services.
You Can Earn Legitimate Income Online from Nigeria – Part 1
Monday, March 17th, 2008Too many young Nigerians are waiting on queues for employments that are not forth coming. Many run from one aptitude test to another in the hope of clinching a lucrative job in a bank or one of the oil and gas companies. Many are busy praying for a miracle job. Too many are discouraged and wondering why they cannot clinch a job just like their fellows who are gainfully employed, the reason is simple, the Nigerian labor market is saturated, the supply of “unskilled” labor is more than the demand. Why can’t we create business and become self employed instead?
I want you to consider this, if our economy is doing badly and social infrastructures are in poor state, how come Nigerians are yet being mentioned as been among the first ten notorious nations responsible for illegitimate business online? If the bad ones among us are making money on the internet through fraudulent activities, then it must be possible for a honest Nigerian to make money legitimately online.