The Alexa Toolbar

[Greg-J]

Having the Alexa Toolbar installed and visiting your sites daily alone will increase your Alexa quite a bit. If everyone on myspacepros installs Alexa, just the sig links originating from here will increase it even more.

I know a lot of people don't put any weight into Alexa, but there are a lot of people that do. Corportate buyers, many advertising programs and a lot of webmastes looking to buy sites all put a lot of weight behind your sites Alexa ranking.

Download and install it. Even if you use FireFox 2 or better, open up IE once a day and do some browsing.


Download The Alexa Toolbar (http://download.alexa.com)


Cheers.

[Matt]

I'll download it, But i'm not sure as to how it helps Me.

[silentsummit]

I cant install it because im using firefox and the firefox link doesnt work.

[Matt]

oo yeah. I just realised you cna't use it for firefox... gay. lol

[Newyorker]

My Symantec Cooperate Edition thinks it is spyware.. LOL!

[mcfox]

My Symantec Cooperate Edition thinks it is spyware.. LOL!
That's because it is ;)


If you use Firefox, use the Search Status extension:
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

It still feeds data to Alexa but isn't the spyware the Alexa toolbar is in IE.

[piplewis]

I have the search status add on for FF, as well as the alexa rank it shows google pr.
Also you can right click on PR and alexa rank and get more info.

[Rob]

I have quite a few toolbars installed with IE7 including Alexa but I only ever use IE7 when I'm testing stuff.
I can only see half a page because of the bars :biggrin:

[Sergio]

That's because it is ;)


If you use Firefox, use the Search Status extension:
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

It still feeds data to Alexa but isn't the spyware the Alexa toolbar is in IE.
Finally one that works with the newest version of firefox! Thanks.

[jeremy860]

That's because it is ;)


If you use Firefox, use the Search Status extension:
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

It still feeds data to Alexa but isn't the spyware the Alexa toolbar is in IE.

thanks for the link :clap:

[Des]

just a fyi for everyone, this isn't compatible with Gran Paradiso 3.0a1(aka FF 3.0) :(

[minnseoelite]

just a fyi for everyone, this isn't compatible with Gran Paradiso 3.0a1(aka FF 3.0) :(

Have you tried it or are you just going by the version compatibility shown for the extension? I have found that alot of the extensions listed do work with newer versions of FF but since those versions were not available when the programmer created the extension its just not listed

[Des]

I tried it, I figured it wouldnt work, but it was worth a try :P

[Rob]

Call me an old cynic but is there any other reason why you are promoting (for want of a better word) Alexa toolbar?

[minnseoelite]

Call me an old cynic but is there any other reason why you are promoting (for want of a better word) Alexa toolbar?

I believe his original post explains that and he is correct. Also since alexa's information is only based off of users having the toolbar installed and if say 75% of the members on here were to have it installed then in about a month MyspacePros alexa ranking will go from its current 9,021 to around 6,000 - 7,000 which as Greg stated makes the site more valuable in many different ways even though alexa is old and outdated......

[Rob]

Myspacepros rankings are not even mentioned in the original post.Only that we can help our own sites by installing it which I totally agree with.

[Greg-J]

I believe his original post explains that and he is correct. Also since alexa's information is only based off of users having the toolbar installed and if say 75% of the members on here were to have it installed then in about a month MyspacePros alexa ranking will go from its current 9,021 to around 6,000 - 7,000 which as Greg stated makes the site more valuable in many different ways even though alexa is old and outdated......
myspacepros hits 6k to 7k pretty regularly now, but that's not why I posted it. I will be posting banners like that often now. Little things here and there that will help people in their own little way. Truth is, I needed something to fill space and I didn't want to put an ad there.

[minnseoelite]

Myspacepros rankings are not even mentioned in the original post.Only that we can help our own sites by installing it which I totally agree with.

@MKInfo and Greg-J

Yes I know Myspacepros was not mentioned my point was that if most of the members here did add the Alexa toolbar just to help their own sites that since most of them probably at least visit to forum once a day that it would help Myspacepros Alexa ranking tremendously even if that is not Gregs intention

[Rob]

I know it would..................but then again I AM just an old cynic http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_37.gif

[icesar]

Another thing you can do with similar results is to install the Alexa widget in the corner of your site. It keeps track of your Alexa ranking, and just by having the widget installed on my site, I've seen my rank get better by 30%. It's on my blog at http://fleethecube.com

[sonofagun]

Another thing you can do with similar results is to install the Alexa widget in the corner of your site. It keeps track of your Alexa ranking, and just by having the widget installed on my site, I've seen my rank get better by 30%. It's on my blog at http://fleethecube.com

Thanks for the link.

[jeremy860]

ok anybody know what is considered a good alexa rank? is it like any number under 300,000?

[miller2348]

Depends on what you're trying to do with it. It's better to be under 100,000 because then you get some more daily stats and stuff like that.