One of the things I have been paying more attention to with my recent amount of free time is to boost Cuzoogle’s traffic and page views. I have been reading more about Google Page Ranks and Alexa Ratings and trying to make a daily effort to visit other sites and blogs and leave comments.

In the last week I have really jumped into the Toronto Raptors web community and it has shown with daily increases in visits.

Cuzoogle has a good Google Rank but that seems to not be as important as the Alexa Ranking. Right now my Google Rank in 5/10 and my Alexa Ranking is 1,104,802.

So I thought I would post some of the ways I have been trying to bulk up my Alexa Ranking and therefore increase traffic and one day a better advertising platform to use.

* Download and install the Alexa toolbar and then surf your own site.

* Place the Alexa widget on your Web site. It will entice visitors to check it out and, you know, each click counts.

* Write useful, quality content, mostly webmaster-related. Promote it on webmaster forums and on social networking sites. The idea is to get as many computer and Internet savvy people as possible to visit your site, since the probability that they will have the Alexa toolbar installed is high.

* Write blogs and articles about Alexa. You will get links to your pages that will help improve your ranking.

* Try to get your articles on such blog sites as digg.com, del.icio.us, or www.stumbleupon.com

* Optimize your site (or relevant pages of it) for Alexa related keywords.

* Tell your friends about the Alexa toolbar, have them download and install it on their computers, and then tell them to visit your site.

* Use an Alexa redirect. This means placing http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? in front of your Web site’s URL. Alexa will then take into consideration clicks on redirected links even if the visitor does not have the Alexa toolbar.

* Apparently, Asian people are huge fans of Alexa. Therefore, many people suggest posting in Asian social networking forums.

* Whenever you post on webmaster forums, include your site’s URL in your signature. It is very likely that most webmasters have the toolbar installed, and there’s a great probability that they’ll visit your site.

Hopefully by trying to follow as many of these as possible I can get a better score.

That is about it for now.

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