Blogging Tips: DoFollow Blog

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A blog that is DoFollow contains no rel=nofollow tag in their links. Any links (whether in comment or post form) will be search engine friendly and can be crawled by Google and other search engine bots. This is a great function to help fellow bloggers raise their search engine ranking and Google Page Rank.

Remember that by default, Blogger and Wordpress comments are set as rel=nofollow. If you are a blogger and would like to set your blog to dofollow, be sure to save your XML template and delete any nofollow tags in your layout.

If you would like to be able to see which links on websites are nofollow, you can download addons with that function. I use a Firefox addon called Link Checker to visualize which links to my site are dofollow (highlights green) and which are nofollow (highlights red).

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Blogging Tips: My Quick Alexa Ranking Improvement

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My Alexa ranking improved very quickly after I installed the Alexa toolbar and wrote one article about Alexa. If you are looking to improve your ranking, you should do both those things first. It seems that my Global Alexa ranking continues to improve, but my US ranking decreases at times. Does anyone have a clue?

Handmade Reviews Alexa Rank History
Date Global Alexa Ranking Alexa Rank in US
04/23/11 2095863 420569
04/26/11 1433884 215263
04/28/11 1294733 202841
04/30/11 1128860 162663
05/01/11 1088688 149065
05/02/11 1035967 133779
05/04/11 923403 117423
05/07/11 807125 96415
05/07/11 783724 93720
05/09/11 745570 85951
05/10/11 745570 81771
05/12/11 703999 78599
05/13/11 670504 72261
05/17/11 586088 60564
05/19/11 553778 55429
05/22/11 516295 51243
05/21/11 515247 50359
06/08/11
06/15/11
06/17/11
06/21/11
06/23/11
06/21/11
07/01/11
07/06/11
07/08/11
07/13/11
07/29/11		 353017
333764
325720
301672
296163
291179
257376
238649
225328
212645
191047		 46497
53362
52899
54906
56101
54982
54960
48713
47513
42858
41932

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Blogging Tips: Improving Your Alexa Ranking

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Increase Alexa Ranking Fast

Increase your Alexa ranking firstly by understanding Alexa. It's simple: Alexa gathers visitor information from people who use the Alexa toolbar. The more visits and clicks, the better your rank. The fastest and easiest way for you to increase your Alexa ranking is by installing the toolbar and visiting your own website often. Encouraging your visitors to use the Alexa toolbar will help immensely.

The problem with some blogs and websites is that visitors might not be webmasters themselves. This means that they probably have no use for an Alexa toolbar. Thus you may have fifty thousand unique visitors a month, but only a small portion of those visits actually count. There is little you can do about it except try to get more visitors and produce some content that may interest website owners and people who do use Alexa.

Because Alexa uses such a simplistic and flawed method to rank websites, the Alexa ranking does not have much value... but a lot of people (advertisers) take Alexa seriously - so it might be wise to attempt to increase your Alexa ranking even if Alexa results are not even as important as Google Page Rank (which is considered unimportant by Google).

What is a good Alexa ranking?
It depends on your competitor. Most people thrive for under 100,000 so they can have a history page on Alexa.


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