This is the fourth in my series of weekly updates from the Blazing Minds blog where I list blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading as well as some of the stats for the week, such as the top 5 referring websites that have graciously sent me some traffic over the week. I’ve had a busy blogging week myself with writing reviews for sites via my post about Alexa Rankings as well as a my review of the Fujifilm Finepix J250 digital camera, also this week I have been updating my blog using updated keywords to help with the SEO of the blog. OK let’s get on with the Round Up this the week. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been an age-old question with website owners everywhere on how to  improve their Alexa Ranking.

Recently I’ve read two great posts with regards to the subject by Tycoon Blogger in How to improve your Alexa ranking and the other by ExtremeJohn in 3 Ways to Increase Your Alexa Ranking.

In the post by ExtremeJohn he mentions a great tip for everyone to use, it’s a simple thing to do when you are checking out the stats of a website/blog on Alexa and it’s a blog that you visit a lot or you really enjoy then leave a review on Alexa.

Apparently if you receive a lot of 5 star ratings on Alexa then this will in turn improve your Alexa ranking, so if you are feeling generous then check out Blazing Minds on Alexa and be kind enough to leave me a tasty review, but remember to let me know so I can return the favour

A big special thanks to ExtremeJohn and Tycoon Blogger for the tips and inspiration on this subject, thanks guys

If you are interesting in getting backlinks from blogs where you post your comments then probably the best way is to post comments on a blog that is “DoFollow”.

A simple way to find out is to download a FireFox plugin called “SearchStatus“, this is an extremely handy plugin, not only will it highlight all the Nofollow Links on a page so that you can see what is a DoFollow link, but, it also display a websites Google PageRank, It’s Alexa rank and it’s Compete Rank.

It also have loads of other features such as showing a sites whois listing, Meta Tags, link report and much more.

So if you are serious about for commenting on DoFollow blogs then this is a FireFox plugin that I would personally recommend SearchStatus.