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Help! I can't seem to get my Alexa ranking under 100,000. The moment my blog starts to head in that direction, I begin heading back the other way. I've been more active on forums, trying to include links where appropriate, and I'm trying to remember to tweet and share my posts more often.

Anyone have any ideas? I still write for Wise Bread about once a month and know I should probably increase my guest posting (time constraints lately have limited this involvement.) Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks!

Thanks, Craig!

Thanks Derek for the idea of a gift card giveaway. That's a great idea. I do offer a free ebook, but maybe I need to promote it a bit more. Thanks for these ideas!

I find that Yakezie community involvement works.  Those who have decided to check us out, regularly, and upon reminder that we're out there (via this forum).

We've hit about 85k-88k and no further success.  Becoming Content.

Everyone has given some great suggestions. I have been making a real effort to comment more on people's posts and that has been helping my rank but that may be because of the toolbar; I'm not sure.

If you like I could sponsor a giveaway to help get your readership up and mine as well. Let me know what you would like to do and we can discuss. 

Miss T said:

Everyone has given some great suggestions. I have been making a real effort to comment more on people's posts and that has been helping my rank but that may be because of the toolbar; I'm not sure.

 

If you like I could sponsor a giveaway to help get your readership up and mine as well. Let me know what you would like to do and we can discuss. 

I'd love to do a sponsorship/giveaway. Maybe we can do a "going green" edition and give some items away on each other's site, like reusable bags, cups, or a gift card to Trader Joes? What do you think?

I don't know if this is the right attitude or not, but I have stopped worrying about Alexa.  I was at 50k, dropped to 70k after having to take a little time off, and have not broken 70k in quite awhile. 

What is ironic is my traffic is much higher than it was back when I was at 50k, and my adsense is doing much better too.  So maybe the other positives help me not worry about Alexa.

Hang in there!  We can do it!  I've been hovering around 127k the last several times I've checked.  I was doing good at not checking that often for a while which made the drops a surprise when I did happen to look, but have been checking too often lately.  I'm hoping things will go from crazy busy to just normal busy this summer so I can do a better job in the forums and across the network.  :)

I try not to worry about Alexa too much (with varying success). My best advice is GUEST POSTING. Guest post at Yakezie, great for getting lots of publicity. I'll be over for another boost to your site. Remember, marathon, not sprint. If you're in it for the long haul, time on the blogosphere will do it's thing.

Little House said:

Help! I can't seem to get my Alexa ranking under 100,000. The moment my blog starts to head in that direction, I begin heading back the other way. I've been more active on forums, trying to include links where appropriate, and I'm trying to remember to tweet and share my posts more often.

 

Anyone have any ideas? I still write for Wise Bread about once a month and know I should probably increase my guest posting (time constraints lately have limited this involvement.) Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks!

Guest posting at Yakezie I think would be very beneficial as well for Alexa ranking, since most of the readers are bloggers, who also have the alexa toolbar installed.