Alexa Ranking…. I’m at it again

Seriously!!  Can anyone help me understand Alexa Ranking?  I really am about to remove the toolbar and just forget the whole thing!!!  I’m so frustrated!!!

In September  I started really trying to lower my score.  I posted a whole list of things I was going to do.  AND DID!!!!!!  This was my starting score.  (Remember lower is better for Alexa…. everything else higher is better)

I was determined to fix! I asked the ever knowing google “What Happened to my Alexa Ranking?” pages and pages of people asking the same thing. Truthfully, I found as many different idea’s of getting a lower Alexa Ranking as there is getting a better Google rank!  Every site had a different theory. So, I picked 9 steps and these are the things I plan to do, have done, will continue to do. I’ll update you in, let’s say 30 days! 

#1. Every site agrees the most important step is having the Alexa toolbar installed (DUH! That’s a given!). I’ve had mine installed for sometime now. 

#2  Write……. a lot…… I do!! I DO!!  I write every single day.  (If you write they will come! They’ll come back just to see if your promise, of ‘there will BE SOMETHING HERE EVERY DAY’ is still true)

#3  Self promote…. hummm. Okay, maybe I don’t do that enough?  I tweet a lot. My own kids have blocked me from their facebook pages. But, I will try and find more places to promote myself. 

#4  Better post titles/headlines.  Writing a catchy title can help, because, face it….. you want more  traffic.So be prepared for some ‘creative’ titles headed your way. (I can do that right??)
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#5 Part B One of my wonderful readers wrote this comment: So I decided to update the post and 
delete number 5. Thank you Shauna!!

      
#6  Graphics.  HELLO?? I don’t have many blog posts without graphics. 

#7  A tip I saw on several sites that surprised me, is tweaking/refreshing some of your old content     and re-posting them as new. Ohhh wait… I probably shouldn’t have told you I’m going to do that…  erase erase… forget I said anything about that one. We’ll just call it de-ja-vue! 

#8  Guest posts!!  Okay, that’s one I haven’t done.I guess it’s time! So who’s gonna volunteer to be first?

#9  Asking for an Alexa review from my visitors. I usually put that in my giveaways but, I haven’t come right out and begged asked WHINED for a review.  I did that!!  Now I have 84 reviews and my score is…….. worse now THAN EVER!!!!!!!!  This is today’s January 6th 2013