Just over a week ago I posted up that Alexa now have a Chrome extension for their toolbar and that it could possibly improve your Alexa rank.

I had many comments saying that it probably wouldn’t help and that improving the Alexa rank was down to other factors, so I thought I would post an update on whether there has been a change in the Alexa rank for my blog.

Over a period of months my rank was always around 78,000 and in a week of installing the Chrome extension it has got to around 67,500. Now that’s an improvement.

But the question is, is this caused by the extension or some other factors, hits to my blog have stayed around the same during the past week and commenting on the blog is also steady, so I’m not really sure, it does seem a bit of a coincidence that after installing the Chrome extension that there should be such an improvement.

My only conclusion, at the moment, is that it has indeed improved that to the use of the plugin, ok I may be wrong and I know a lot of you out there will be up in arms and saying, “This isn’t possible”, but, may be it is.

Over the next few weeks and months I will be watching my stats on both my blog and on Alexa and to see how it goes, I’m not saying it will get any better it may just stay where it is, or even worse drop. But it will be interesting just to see what actually happens.

So this is my current ongoing experiment. Have you done the same? Did you install the Chrome extension when I first posted about it and have you noticed any difference? I’d love to know

If like me you are one the many that has moved away from the likes of Internet Explorer and Firefox in favour of the faster and more streamline Google Chrome, then you may be missing a few of your favourite plugins.

One plugin that many have mentioned in the past for FireFox and Internet Explorer was the Alex Toolbar and a lot have said that having the toolbar helps improve your Alexa ranking.

There is a selection of Chrome Extensions for Alexa, but up until recently, I’m not sure how recently, the Alexa toolbar wasn’t really available for the Chrome browser.

Anywho I was over at Alexa checking out my stats etc and there were several sections saying that they were only visible with the Toolbar! “Oh Great” I thought, but on the off-chance I surfed to the Toolbar page to see if they had one for Chrome yet.

There it was on Alexa a version for my trusted Chrome.

So now you can have a handy icon on your Chrome browser that when clicked will give you the information for the website you are visiting without leaving the site. Hovering the icon will show you the websites Alexa Traffic Rank and clicking on it will show you the info from Alexa on the site you are on.

But Does This Improve Your Alexa Rank?

Well as you surf the internet the Alexa Chrome Extension will improve the ranking of the sites you visit, so in theory, as you visit your own blog writing comments, posting article and so on, you will be improving your Alexa rank.

So every little bit of surfing helps, I know what your thinking, why is improving your Alexa rank important?

Alexa is usually one of the first places that advertisers check to find out information about your website, so having a few nice stats does help you out and having the Alexa toolbar pulling in info for your site does help.

Also by using this it will also help Alexa build your related links as you visit a site and it has a link to yours, click on that link this will show the toolbar that a site is linking and vice versa

So there you go. Now I’m not an expert on these things, but I do know that when I used to use the Internet Explorer Alexa toolbar I did see a difference in my blogs Alexa ranking. So hopefully if Alexa Traffic Rank for Chrome acts in the same way, I should start seeing some improvements over the next few weeks or months.

Related articles

• How Does Alexa Rankings Work? (shoutmeloud.com)
• 10 Best Google Chrome Extensions for Marketers (quickonlinetips.com)

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