Pipeline Profits - A Million Dollar Internet Business With No SEO, No PPC And No Affiliates? December 29, 2006
Notice: This post contains my affiliate link.
I’ve just been made aware of a new Internet marketing product launch that started today. At the moment I have my brain set on “ignore” for most product launches because I’ve focused my gaze purely on my own products for release in the new year, however this one caught my attention. Here’s why…
“How Two Internet Nobodys Pulled In $1,035,081.33 In Just Over 90 Days Using A Massive Traffic Generation System That Delivers Over 10,000 Qualified Visitors A Day!”
“And They Did It All Without Search Engines, Pay-Per-Click, or Affiliates!”
That last bit got my curious. They made over a million dollars without using search engines, pay-per-click advertising or affiliates. I wonder what the traffic strategy is? Viral marketing? Offline PR? Hmm…
I still don’t know after watching the first free video because they have split their 47 minute presentation into five parts, which incidentally was taken from the recent conference for StomperNet members, so I’ve only seen the intro so far. They definitely have me intrigued and I’ll stick around to watch the rest of the videos as they are released to see what traffic strategy they use.
Watch The Free Videos
You can watch the 2 minute teaser video at: http://videos.pipeline-profits.com
If you find it compelling you can then opt-in to watch the first part of the full uncut video, which is available from the Pipeline Profits blog you will be taken to after opting in (it’s great to see yet more Internet marketers use blogs).
How Much?
At the moment there is nothing you can buy. I know this is the start of a product launch affordable to people willing to spend a couple of thousand or so for the full course, to learn how to replicate the Pipeline Profits System, whatever that may turn out to be.
I’ve only just joined the affiliate program for it but at the moment I don’t know much more than the public has access to by watching the free videos.
What Do You Think?
Leave a comment and tell me what your guess is for the traffic strategy they use that results in 10,000 opt-ins a day without affiliates, or SEO or PPC and we will see who guesses right - if anyone does!
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Results of the AlexaRank Experiment December 28, 2006
Back in earlier December I wrote two pieces regarding Alexa traffic rankings -
- How Does AlexaRank Work And Should You Pay It Any Attention?
- How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step
Many readers followed the advice I offered in the second article and placed the Alexa widget on their blog in an effort to test whether my theory works (see the second article above for details).
After reading through the many comments I received from other bloggers I’ve come to another conclusion, or at least a clarification of my previous claims (or disclaimer even!) -
If you want to increase your AlexaRank placing the Alexa widget on your blog may help, but there are no guarantees. My advice is to test it and see what happens, but to also test putting it on and then taking it off again to compare results.
Some people reported back that the Alexa widget did nothing or even decreased their AlexaRank. This group was in the minority. Most people reported some increase after placing the widget, but by no means would I consider the people who chose to comment on my articles a sample size large enough to prove even remotely conclusive.
Dave Davis from RedFly Studios placed the widget on a site receiving more than 20,000 unique visitors per day, which based on my experience should at least have an AlexaRank in the top 10,000, probably the top 1,000. Dave’s site sat around the 100,000 AlexaRank mark and didn’t improve after adding the widget.
Of the people who reported positive changes, none experienced as significant a change as I did. Most people reported small 5-10% gains. All three of my blogs jumped at least 25% a week or two after installing the widget. Was I just lucky? Is there something unique about my blogs? I can’t really say.
AlexaRank By Category?
Jon from Art of Money wrote a comment regarding the comparison of categories when calculating AlexaRank.
The other thing to keep in mind about Alexa rankings is the they are heavily skewed towards sites that are of interest to Internet savvy - since, like others mentioned, it only counts visits from people using the toolbar, which is more likely to be us stats addicted Internet workers.
So it is really only a valid comparison between two sites in “like” categories. A site about dogs, for example would have to have 100 times as much traffic as Yaro’s BlogTrafficSchool to get a number in the 40k range, since there are 100 times more of Yaro’s visitors using the Alexa toolbar (or now the Search Status plugin).
I had not consider this before, but it could be a way of explaining certain ranking anomalies, however Jon’s comments triggered a thought about another possible explanation using categories.
If sites were ranked compared to other sites in the same category, or against the total volume of traffic in a given category, this may help to explain different Alexa rankings compared to real server traffic, like the case with Dave’s site. I have no idea how this would be calculated or tested though.
Whatever the case, I find it disconcerting that something like AlexaRank could impact a site’s propensity to generate income, if the consistency of rankings appears to be quite unreliable.
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Five Things About Yaro - I’ve Been Tagged Too! December 26, 2006
It’s possibly the most contagious “flu” going around this holiday season - the “five things” blog-tag game. I’ve been tagged numerous times now (thanks Tony, Igor, Luc and Sreejith) and it’s about time I acted on these requests to join the epidemic.
First though I had to find out who was responsible for this craze and as far as I can tell the person who deserves the blame, and a slap on the back for some nice link building work, is Jeff Pulver. This blog tag game a lovely case study on viral marketing in the blogosphere.
This is actually a reasonably hard activity for me since I’m pretty revealing about myself in this blog already, in particular my business timeline dissects much of my personal and professional life thus far. I apologise in advance if I cover old territory in this list.
Now without further ado - Five things you probably don’t know about Yaro…
- I am an only child. Yes that means I was spoilt rotten - actually no, I really wasn’t that spoilt, at least I don’t think I was compared to other children I’ve seen (it’s all relative) but certainly I can appreciate the mentality you form as a result of being an only child. In general I enjoy time by myself more than with other people, I have trouble negotiating things like cooking in the kitchen with others - I have to be in charge of that - and introversion is definitely a characteristic of mine. Whether I can lay the blame for these personality styles on the fact that I am only child I don’t know - but it seems relevant to me.
- I’m a star trek fan and proud of it!
- I’ve never had a full time job in my life. The closest I ever got to it was a permanent part time position, 20 hours per week, at a computer helpdesk, which lasted all of one month before I headed to Tasmania on a backpacking trip.
- I am not a vegetarian, I’ve never smoked pot or cigarettes or done any drugs - in fact I’ve never had any drugs like antibiotics in my life (up to this point anyway) - so just because I have long hair doesn’t mean I’m a hippy or have any hippy-esque tendencies people! Although I certainly think and discuss the meaning of life often enough to be considered spiritual - hmm, “new-agey” perhaps - no I don’t like that one either. I’m definitely more geek than hippy - but that’s enough labels, it’s clear they do not work well as a means to describe people.
- And finally, I was on the 1998 Magic: the Gathering World Championships Australian team, something I’m particularly proud of. Yes, “geek” is definitely the right label…
Well there you have it. I’m not sure who is left in the blogosphere who hasn’t done this five things tag game yet, but let me see… I tag Neil Shearing, Burt, Mike Filsaime, Rich Schefren and Suzanne Falter-Barnes.
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MyBlogLog Craze Is Taking Over The Blogosphere December 23, 2006
Regular bloggers will remember MyBlogLog from back when it was a run-of-the-mill blog statistics service. To be brutally honest, while I appreciated MyBlogLog and I admired that they had an affiliate program too, there really wasn’t anything that much different to all the other web statistic trinkets available. As a result I tested it out then walked away without a second thought because I was content with my current statistics services.
Recently the folks behind MyBlogLog had an epiphany. Social networking is huge right? Why not create a social networking tool for bloggers and integrate it with their existing MyBlogLog service…and that’s exactly what they did.
Now I don’t know if this was their original intention or this was some nice repositioning on-the-fly in response to changing market opportunities - but whatever it was, it was genius. I’ve never seen a tool gain traction in the blogosphere so quickly. The MyBlogLog widget is showing up absolutely everywhere on most blogs I visit and there’s an obvious reason why - it’s such a compelling tool because it lets you see, using photos of people, who has visited your blog recently.
What Is The New MyBlogLog?
MyBlogLog took their original statistics service and built a complete social networking tool over the top of it. I should say they are still “building” as the tools and interface change often as new features are added. It’s by no means perfect - I find the system quite confusing at times - but they did one thing very well, the widget that you can stick on to your blog that lets you see who recently visited your blog is simple, elegant and most importantly - addictive - and it’s a wonderful little viral marketing tool for their service, no doubt fuelling tremendous growth.
I won’t explain in detail how MyBlogLog works - you can check it out for yourself - it’s like a MySpace/Facebook style social community site tailored specifically to bloggers. It’s still very new and doesn’t contain nearly as many features as established social network sites, but this is certainly the first I’ve seen focused on bloggers and it’s early days yet. As I said new features appear every second time I login to my account. No doubt the MyBlogLog team are working frantically behind the scenes to keep updates coming. They must be very excited about their user growth numbers, I suspect they are enjoying double or triple digit growth (or maybe my echochamber just happens to love MyBlogLog).
I strongly recommend you go have a play with MyBlogLog and add the widget to your blog if you haven’t done so already. You can see the widget in action on this blog in the right hand sidebar, just look for all the faces of people who recently visited Entrepreneurs-Journey. Each person who is a MyBlogLog member who then visits another site with the MyBlogLog widget installed will show up in the recent visitors list. You can click faces to be taken to blog communities and user homepages where you can leave messages and see who blogs where and who reads what blog.
As I said - it’s confusing at times - but the core principle is sound and simple, and winning fans all over the blogosphere. I for one really enjoy being able to put a face to my current readership.
MyBlogLog Comment Avatars
I’ve been looking for a way to add avatars to the comments people leave on my blogs. Thanks to MyBlogLog and the WordPress community I stumbled across a neat little plug-in that uses MyBlogLog member details, taking the user pictures and sticking them up as an avatar whenever they leave a comment. Now not only can I put a face to my recent readers, I also know what the people who leave comments look like as well.
If you want to get the MyBlogLog avatars on your blog comments you can download the WordPress plug-in here: MyAvatars.
The result of all this social networking and use of imagery is a reduction in the anonymity of Internet users. I for one think this is a very good thing.
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Get Your Free DVD From Russell Brunson - Dot Com Secrets December 19, 2006
Click Here To Order Your Free Dot Com Secrets DVD (aff).
It’s time for another Internet marketing product launch! Whether you like them or hate them (I’m a little of both), you can’t deny they offer a great chance to get free content and an opportunity to “watch and learn” to see how millions are generated in a short period of time.
If you have the investment cash available and it make sense to your unique situation, purchasing a big Internet marketing product can be the best way to start an Internet business because you get a blueprint from someone who has done it already. Theoretically you just need to follow the steps and execute to start making money online - theoretically!
That’s the exact reason I agreed to help out Russell Brunson with his launch of DotComSecrets - because he’s created a product designed to help people get started in Internet marketing from the ground up. This is the first time he’s releasing a home study course and he’s starting out by giving away his business plan on DVD, you just have to pay for shipping.
Of course you can expect to hear more about the full product you will be able to buy down the line, but as per usual you are not obligated to purchase - you can pay the $2.97 shipping, get your DVD and then opt out and never hear from Russell again if you don’t want to.
Order Your DotComSecrets Free DVD
You can check out the selling points and then order your DVD from the Dot Com Secrets Free DVD Special Offer Page.
And yes, of course, I am an affiliate in this launch so if one or two of you do decide to buy the big product when it is released I will get a commission, which I thank you for. For the time being I recommend you take advantage of the free materials from Russell and assess whether his business model is a good one.
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How To Integrate AWeber With Paypal, Clickbank, 1Shoppingcart & More
The folks at the AWeber blog have produced a bunch of how-to guides on using the AWeber email autoresponder with popular shopping cart and payment processors, including -
You can read all the guides by clicking here.
At a very basic level you can get your online business going just by using an email autoresponder and a payment processor. Combining Paypal with AWeber gives you the tools to capture emails, promote to prospects, sell to clients and take payment - a quick and easy way to get started online and launch a real business.
Not sure how to get started? Try these article for ideas and help:
- How To Use Email Autoresponders For Passive Affiliate Income - AWeber Review - Email Autoresponder - How To FINALLY Start Your Online Business
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Taking Miller Time - Are You Having A Holiday?
Last week was busy. Not busier than average, but a lot was done both in my personal and business life (what’s the difference again?). By the time Friday rolled around I was feeling in need of a break as my head was reeling from the mental checklist I was keeping. My problem was I just had too many things I wanted to do.
So what did I do?
I decided to do nothing. Yep, nothing.
Sometimes the web can over stimulate and if you are like me, getting things done is addictive - it’s a rush that makes you want to get more things done and so on and so on.
The problem with getting things done, especially as a blogger, is that it breeds results. There’s nothing wrong with results, it’s exactly why we do things and I hope to always enjoy the pleasure of results.
The problem is that results create more things to do, more things to respond to and more opportunities to take advantage of. As a blogger if your output increases then your traffic increases and so do your comments. If you are like me you want to interact with people who leave comments. When you publish a good blog post it makes you want to write another one. You also want to track your new incoming links, your traffic and chances are a few more emails will come in with offers or feedback or opportunities.
All this is great - it’s a sign of success and a result of your productivity - but you can’t keep up everything forever. Something has to give and in my case when I’m trying to fall asleep and I can’t because I keep coming up with another idea for this, or a thing I have to do for that, or a deadline I’ve given myself for something - it can all be a bit too much.
Thankfully I know and heed the warning signs and I always prioritize health above everything else. I know about stress and I’ve laid out my favorite tips to reduce stress as well. When you can’t sleep or exercise or eat properly because of other aspects of your life something has to change. In my case, a little Miller time was necessary to help reset the brain for better sleep.
Miller Time
There’s a story behind the phrase “Miller Time” that at the moment I just can’t remember. I heard the phrase most recently in the very first module in the Rich Schefren course I’m taking.
The story really doesn’t matter - what it refers to is what counts.
To take Miller Time is to take time away from work to recharge. In my case it means to leave the computer since work is very much tied into computing activities. For the first time in a long time, I did nothing on my computer for the entire weekend.
When I take time off from computering I like to do something that involves exercise since the endorphins and physical health benefits are good motivations. Thankfully Toronto shined with some nice weather, unseasonably warm for this time of year apparently, and I was able to don my inline skates and head out by the lake downtown.
Are You Taking A Holiday?
I suspect, like me, you have some lofty goals for the year 2007. Already all the new year resolution and goals for 2007 blog posts are starting to surface around the blogosphere as we think about the start of the new year.
However, I wonder, have you considered taking time off anytime soon? If you blog - will you actually stop blogging for a while? Will you tell your readers and risk losing traffic? How about your business - can it run without you for a while?
No matter how big your plans are for the coming year, have you stopped to consider your most valuable assets, your body and mind? Have you allowed yourself enough miller time recently?
Maybe it’s time to stop thinking about your big plans and allow a little rest in preparation for things to come.
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Podcast: Interview With Brian Clark From Copyblogger.com December 14, 2006
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I have a special treat for you in my latest Entrepreneurs-Journey Podcast, an interview with Brian Clark, the guy behind the very popular Copyblogger.com blog.
Note the sound quality was a bit sketchy with this recording so I’ve up the bitrate and consequently the file download is topping 20MB. I apologize to all you dial-up users, but I promise you the podcast download is worth the wait. For you broadband users it will be nothing and the enhanced sound quality makes a difference, although it’s far from perfect.
Brian and I recorded this interview late last week so it’s very current and you will learn a lot about the guy behind one of the shining star blogs of 2006. Brian has an extensive background including time spent as a lawyer and an early adopter of the Internet as a tool for commerce. He’s been consulting to web companies before, during and after the dotcom boom and subsequent crash and his experience comes through in this interview. I hope you enjoy it and make sure you leave a comment to tell Brian how much you liked this show because he really doesn’t appreciate the attention 
.
Show Notes
- The show starts with a brief history of Brian’s younger days
- Brian discusses his first Internet ventures - email newsletters and consulting to dotcoms
- Post dotcom crash, Brian talks about the businesses that were left and how they used sound direct marketing principles taken from the offline world
- Brian alludes to some of the previous Internet projects he has worked on how he structures relationships with other talented people to help them bring their talent online
- We hear some comments about venture funding
- I ask Brian for some secrets to the success of his Copyblogger.com blog
- We learn about the original motivations behind launching Copyblogger
- Brian discuses some of his current projects, including Tubetorial
- We hear about Brian’s plans for the future including what his wife thinks about him working so hard
- At the end of the interview I ask for Brian’s wisdom regarding starting up a business in today’s online climate
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Should You Pay To Outsource Your Social Media Marketing?
You may recall I signed up for ReviewMe and began with a review of ReviewMe, taking advantage of their opening promotion to pay bloggers to help spread the word about the new service. My review was more of a discussion of the viability of bloggers being paid for reviews, which you can read here - Should Bloggers Accept Money For Reviews?
Since that review I have been offered six more paid reviews between this blog and the Small Business Branding blog, which I am in charge of as well. For the Small Business Branding reviews I contacted a few of the writers who blog there and offered them the reviews, but they were declined because of lack of familiarity with the subject matter of the review. In my case for the reviews ordered on this blog, I have either felt the subjects were not relevant enough for my readers, were too difficult to write about in an interesting manner or I simply couldn’t slot the review into my hectic writing schedule. You only get 48 hours to accept a review so you have to act quickly.
It’s worth noting that I have collectively turned down $750 USD in review revenue in a month’s time, which for some may not be much, but for me is still significant enough cash that I care, as I’m sure many other bloggers would too. The effectively hourly pay rate would probably have been around $100 an hour - not so bad. It’s also a sign that this service has some attention from advertisers, but I am curious how many reviews are making on to blogs and how much impact the reviews are having for the advertisers who purchase them. I’m sure the staff at ReviewMe are watching the search engine and publicity data closely for each completed review.
MySpace Bulletin Postings
There were a couple of reviews requested via ReviewMe that spiked my interest, but I turned them down for the reasons mentioned above. Yesterday I received a review request for a service that grabbed my attention, so I decided to accept the review. As per the ReviewMe policies I would like to let you know that the following is a sponsored review, but I think this is a service you may be interested in - in fact I may even test it out myself!
Social Media Marketing
Social media, love it or hate it, is absolutely booming at the moment. I don’t mean just the use of social media either - sure MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Del.icio.us, and all the various flavors of social community based sites are rocketing up the charts as some of the most popular and traffic pulling (and distributing) sites on the web, but they are also garnering attention from people with big budgets to spend on publicity and advertising online. In the last few months based on the conversations, interviews, panels, keynote speeches and of course - blog posts - you will have noticed that the corporate world is taking interest in social media as a marketing channel.
Enter MySpace Bulletin Postings, a service that as the website details, allows you to purchase MySpace bulletins, Craigslist postings and seed message boards. Here’s how the site describes their MySpace service:
We’ve created a network of account holders who, between them have thousands and millions of friends. By having these multiple account holders place your bulletin it looks like genuine, organic buzz. Whether you’re a brand looking to drive traffic to a jump site, or a band establishing a following, our bulletin program is a way to spread authentic buzz to a large group of people.
I’ve heard of similar services and automated software programs that will broadcast your message into the MySpace community and no matter how “organic” it appears I am dubious and I think it will only work for certain types of promotions. For example if you want to advertise an upcoming gig for your band, I can see how using a MySpace “blast” to thousands of accounts would appear reasonably organic since the site is often used as a central site for bands, but if I was say, wanting to promote breast enhancement pills, I doubt any company could make that appear “organic”. This does make me wonder whether a service like MySpace Bulletin Postings has any qualifying criteria regarding what they promote - I would presume they do.
The other major issue with a service like MySpace Bulletin Postings is what the company that runs the social media community thinks of people using their site as an advertising channel in this manner. It’s usually quite clear in the terms of service for sites like MySpace that you can’t use automated bots to effectively spam users, but a service that leverages the connections of real accounts in the system may be more difficult to assess or single out, it may even be permitted - again how the promotion is conducted will no doubt impact whether it is frowned upon.
In the past I considered starting up a forum seeding service, and I have seen how effective this can be and understand why it works. I don’t like that it feels as if you are “cheating” the real users but content is content - if people value the discussion does it matter if some of the users were paid to participate?
The Benefits
If you take away all the potential negative issues regarding a social community posting service, from a pure marketing point of view, I love the concept. The raw numbers that sites like MySpace and Craigslist reach every day is mouth watering and most of the communication going on at the sites is very organic, very natural - it’s peer to peer - in other words, a ripe location for word of mouth and viral marketing.
Just recently someone suggested that the classifieds site Craigslist may be an untapped marketing channel for my business BetterEdit. Craigslist has become a central hub for commerce in many major cities around the world, and students in particular make use of the service daily to buy and sell secondhand goods. Since I target university students with BetterEdit, Craigslist presents an opportunity to reach hundreds of thousands of potential clients at no cost but the time it takes to enter postings. Or, I could consider paying for a Craigslist seeding service to do the posts for me - I have to admit that is very tempting. I’ve used Craigslist once before to gain a number one Google ranking so I know how powerful the site is.
I believe we are going to see more and more services like MySpace Bulletin Postings pop up and the risk is sites like MySpace may become diluted with too many marketing and branding messages - doesn’t that sound like something we already endure in our offline lives? Then again perhaps that point is moot - the net is already very commercial so adding to the noise by using a posting service may not make that much difference. I for one am interested in how good a posting service really is at achieving the outcome all business owners want - more conversions. If anyone has any stories about using a posting services like this, please leave a comment.
Yaro Starak Social Media Commentator
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How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step December 12, 2006
In my previous post I introduced and discussed the importance of the website traffic monitor AlexaRank. Whether you value your Alexa traffic ranking or not there are definite advantages to having a high AlexRank. Many webmasters and business folk look at the AlexaRank as a reasonable representation of a site’s traffic. If you are selling advertising from your site the more “proof” you can demonstrate of your traffic - and in AlexaRank’s case it is an independent valuation of your traffic, which adds credibility - the more likely advertisers will come knocking at your door willing to give you some of their ad budget.
Make More Money From Text Links
It’s well known that many text link brokers, such as Text-Link-Ads.com (aff), factor in AlexaRank when determining the price to charge advertisers for links on your site or blog. The higher you raise your AlexaRank the more you potentially can earn, and this reason alone is enough to pay attention to methods to increase your AlexaRank.
An AlexaRank Experiment
AlexaRank is calculated using the Alexa Toolbar. Alexa takes the browsing data from the millions of people using the Toolbar and calculates the traffic ranking of each site. As Alexa states, while low traffic sites are harder to gauge accurately, once a site reaches a 100,000 or less ranking the accuracy of the measure increases. Hence if you can top a 10,000 AlexaRank, or even 1000, the credibility of that ranking is increased.
As Blaine Moore pointed out in a comment made to my previous AlexaRank article, it is easy to - as he put it - “game” the AlexaRank if you have a tool that checks AlexaRank installed on your computer, and that doesn’t have to be just the toolbar, it can be for a FireFox extension like SearchStatus, which I recently installed on my browser. These tools send data to Alexa, and when Alexa receives any data about your surfing habits it will raise the traffic rankings for the sites you provide data for - and if you visit your own sites often you can raise your ranking.
I can’t verify that installing any AlexaRank checking tool will help your own site’s AlexaRank and to be honest after I installed SearchStatus I did not notice any significant change in my AlexaRank at my blogs. It wasn’t until I conducted a different experiment that I noticed more verifiable proof of a technique to increase your site’s AlexaRank.
How I Increased My AlexaRank By More Than 25%
Here’s how my logic went - I figured the toolbar and other AlexaRank checking tools tell Alexa my browsing habits, which is fine, but I’m only one person visiting my blogs (albeit I do it many times each day). What I really want is a way to tell Alexa about every person who visits my blogs, not just me. In order to do this, the Alexa reporting tool needs to be on my blog and downloaded by every person who visits my site each time they visit.
The obvious answer was to install an Alexa Site Widget on each of my blogs. The widget looks like this:
If you click it you will be taken to my current Alexa traffic ranking data. You can also find the live widget in the sidebar of all my blogs.
After installing this widget on to my blogs, within the next few days my rankings increased at least 25%. This blog, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, was sitting around the 19,000 AlexaRank mark and within seven days had dropped to just above 15,000 as I type this. Prior to this gain my AlexaRank increases had been slow and steady, but never as significant as this in a short period of time, unless of course I earned a traffic spike from some other site(s) linking to me.
I noticed similar results at SmallBusinessBranding.com and the BlogTrafficSchool.com Blog too, which makes me almost 100% certain that installing the Alexa site widget will increase your AlexaRank.
This makes complete sense, as my thinking above explains. If every visitor to your blog downloads the Alexa site widget when they visit your site, then Alexa has data on every visitor you have, at least every web reader, I don’t think RSS readers count since they never download the widget unless they go to your site. You might call this “gaming” your AlexaRank, but in this case I don’t think that’s an apt description - installing the site widget in fact helps to give Alexa enough data to provide your true AlexaRank, as opposed to what it thinks it should be based on the data it has from it’s toolbar users.
If you sell advertising from your blog or website then you should care about your AlexaRank. If that is the case then installing the Alexa site widget is a must. It takes only a few seconds and could significantly improve your current AlexaRank.
Click here to get instructions on installing the Alexa site widget.
If any other bloggers or webmasters out there notice an increase in their AlexaRank after following my instructions and installing a site widget I’d love to hear about it. While I’m confident my results at three different blogs is good enough proof, it doesn’t hurt to have more examples to back up the hypothesis. Please leave a comment and tell me how your AlexaRank improves.
Yaro Starak AlexaRank Chaser
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