How To Get A Top 100000 Rank in Alexa

To get into the top 100,000 in Alexa ranking means your website would be well and truely established and you should be able to easily make a living from it. At this level the Alexa statistics become accurate and will match your google analytics statistics. Advertising companies will welcome you, even chase you for business. This article will explain the do's and don'ts I've worked out over time using trial and error.

Traffic Required for Alexa Milestones

1,000,000 To get in the top 1 million sites you will need around 250-300 unique visitors a day

500,000 To get in the top half million sites you will need around 500-600 unique visitors a day

100,000 To get into the top hundred thousand you  need around 2500 unique visitors a day

Get Inbound Links

Links in to your site are the most important. Its how people get to your site and it also increases your google page rank. And the higher your page rank the more search engine traffic you get. These links need to build slowly over time. Just once or twice a week make some comments in forums and on blogs that are on the same topic as your site. Put your sites link in your signature or in the comment. If you go spamming everyones forum to quickly with links to your site, you may even be penalised by some search engines. So its key to do it slowly and naturally.

Write Great Content

Content is king when it comes to getting the attention of search engines. Never copy and paste other peoples articles, it will just be ignored or even penalise your site. For me articles that contain at least 300 words seem to get the most traffoc. Break the article up into sections like this one has been with titles for each section using header tags. Search engines read the header tags to get a summary of the content. Try to use two images but not too large. Too many pictures that are slow to download also can go against you. And the main benefit of writing good content is that people are more likely to link to you.

Content which is controversial can be good, but be careful not to offend. Content that compares two or three items is good as are reviews of products.

Article Titles

Article titles should be keyword rich and match an exact search phrase if possible. For example, this article is titled "How To Get A Top 100000 Rank in Alexa" which is what I actually searched for in Google myself. Google favors articles when the title is an exact or similar match for a key phrase.

Page Loading Speed

Another metric which helpd generate traffic is how quickly your web page loads. Make sure you use googles webmaster tools and click on the loading speed section for tips on how to make your site faster.

Page Layout

After much experimenting the prefered page layout at the moment seems to be logo on the top left with an easy to navigate menu on the top right. Then content on the left, with all you ads and social media links on a right hand side menu. Then at the bottom have your contact, privacy policy, and terms of use links