Since the intervention of Google Instant, I have noticed some changes in the stats on my blog, in particular those of long tail keywords.

At one point my search engine stats would show up with single keywords more over any others, but since Google decided to release Google Instant, I have noticed an increase in the bigger search terms.

For example one of the most popular posts here on Blazing Minds is the post about “How To Select All Your Friends On Facebook” since the change the term “how to select all friends on facebook” is the number one source for traffic from Google and the second most popular term is “how to get traffic to your blog“.

Also you will noticed that both these search terms are also the titles of the posts, so maybe that’s good standing for the posts to show up in Google Instant.

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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)

Building a blog is easy, but one of the major challenges every blogger faces is the part of getting traffic to a blog. There are various methods that can be used to get traffic to a blog some of which are explained below.

1. Post regularly: This is a step most people often ignore. We all know our readers are not fool, you can’t just expect them to be coming to your website or blog everyday without them finding new fresh content to read. Try to update your blog regularly because this helps your readers and it also help your [intlink id="handy-websites-seo-fanatics" type="post"]search engine rankings[/intlink]. Search engines love fresh content and if you begin to post regularly, the search engines will soon begin to count your blog as an authority blog thereby automatically increasing your ranks in the search engines. Read the rest of this entry »

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have seen some really ugly websites become highly successful and counter to that I have seen the most beautifully crafted websites with extraordinary graphics get absolutely nowhere. So, it isn’t going to matter how brilliant you think your website is or how well you believe it is monetized. No traffic, no sales!

If your own website is not performing as well as you had hoped, the most obvious answer is that you are not getting the traffic your website needs.

This is an ongoing debate as to whether we should focus on targeted traffic only or any traffic that we can get hold of. Before you say targeted traffic of course, it may all depend on the volume. Converting your visitors into buyers is outside the remit of this article, however, do the math…

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