How To Increase Alexa Ranking? – 20 Easy And Fast (Quickly) Methods

It’s a ranking system that keeps you updated about the number of visitors who visited your website. You only need to install the Alexa toolbar to your website. More description about this can be found if you look up for Alexa Traffic Rank definition.

The Alexa toolbar collects the three months data at first step and gives the number of the pages of the website used and visited. It computes the reaches and views of the number of pages of all the websites on an everyday basis.

This reflects both the number of users of the particular site and the number of the pages viewed on that site. Then by calculating the simple arithmetical mean, the site is ranked.

Alexa rank is used by most of the expert webmasters, advertisers, and ad networks as measures to testify the merit of your blogs. Most of the advertisers will look for Alexa rank before they advertise on websites and blogs. You must have good Alexa rank for getting more advertisers for your blog. Practically Alexa rank is not dependent on only your website/blog traffic, there are many tricks to increase this rank. Here are some of the easy and fast (quick) methods to increase (practically decrease) Alexa ranking. 

The following tips have been derived from the successful experiences of several Alexa using webmasters.

Working of these tips is highly dependent on the consistency of your action performing. However, it is highly advised to improve the quality of your content that automatically attracts the traffic. It is a better, slightly more demanding, way than artificially increasing your Alexa rank.

20 Methods to Increase Alexa Ranking:

• Install Alexa toolbar and visit your blog daily.
• Use Alexa traffic badge in your website or blog.
• Claim your website from Alexa website to get maximum authority for your blog.
• Use Alexa logos and buttons in your blog.
• Set your blog as homepage in your home computer, office computer, laptop, friends PC’s, etc..
• Update your blog daily with good articles.
• Check your Alexa rank frequently on their website, at-least once daily.
• Comment on tech related websites with your blog URL in comment form’s URL space.
• Tell your friends and relatives to install Alexa toolbar and visit your blog daily.
• Tell your friends to review your blog on Alexa.
• Write 2-3 articles related to Alexa in your blog.
• Encourage your blog visitors to use Alexa toolbar.
• Try to get more traffic from social networking and social bookmarking sites.
• If you have got money, try Alexa site audit.
• Write content related to webmasters.
• Use a category and tag named Alexa in your blog.
• Try Alexa autosurfs for a new website or blog (not recommended for old sites).
• If you or your friend has internet cafe, install Alexa toolbar and set your blog as homepage in all PC’s.
• Advertise your URL, blog banner on tech related website.
• Try to get traffic from all over the world.

Top 10 Social Networking Sites in India

The Craze of Social Networking Sites are increasing every year, and that’s why I thought to share the top 10 social networking sites and let see, in how many sites you have your own account and you are daily checking your friends activities. All the Rankings are based on Alexa Ranking which is calculated every day based on users activity.



1. Facebook Facebook is the best social networking site at present and the second most visited site in the world after Google. In India it got the third Rank based on Alexa Ranking and this is on the top of our ranking list. Facebook is already most visited social networking website in many countries.
2. Google Plus Alexa Ranking of Google+ is 1 in India and it is the First most popular social networking site in India. Google+ is most popular in Paraguay and Brazil with Alexa Rank 1 & 1 respectively. Google+ was very popular in India as well as others countries.
3. LinkedIn In India, LinkedIn Got the second most used professional social networking site based on Alexa Ranking which is 11. LinkedIn is most popular in Netherlands with Alexa Ranking 10.
4. iBibo Ibibo is currently doing well with Alexa Ranking 24 in India. Ibibo is the fourth Most Visited Social Networking Site in India. I think their Social 
Networking Games like facebook are helping them to increase the user base and hence the ranking as well.
5. BharatStudent BharatStudent.Com is the 5th most popular Social Networking Website in India with Alexa Ranking 57.
6. Myspace Myspace is also most used by Indian Users. They Got Alexa Ranking 117 in India 117 and Myspace is most popular in US with Alexa Ranking 28.
7. Hi5 Hi5.Com is also most popular in India with Alexa Ranking 359 and it is the 7th Most Popular Site in India. Hi5 is most popular in Angola and Mongolia with Alexa Ranking 6&7 respectively.
8. Fropper Fropper is the 8th Most Visit Social Networking Site in India with Alexa Ranking 647 and mostly used in India.
9. Bwithyou Bwithyou.com is another social networking sites in India and it is the 9th Most popular site with Alexa Rank 2700. It is most popular in India and USA
10. Perfspot Perfspot.com got the 10 position in this list with Alexa Rank 3700 in India. It is most popular in Syrian Arab Republic with Alexa ranking 243.

Top 5 Search Engines

Based on rankings by total searches, the top five search engines are:

• Google Search
• Yahoo! Search
• MSN/Windows Live Search
• AOL Search
• Ask.com Search

Get Bing Daily Images on your Google homepage!!

Now you can get Bing daily Image on your Google homepage

using a Google Chrome extension. Just go here
and install the extension and you are done. Now the next time you open google search you will see bing background image.

India IT quiz–Edition 1

1. Which country is the second fastest growing market for Facebook, the popular social networking engine?

2. Junglee.com, Amazon’s official portal for India in its current avatar is a comparision site involving multiple online commerce portals. Two of them are prominently absent – the same two also considered by Amazon as key competition to beat in India. Which two?

3. Which state in India tops in terms of Facebook activity?

4. Which popular Indian site has dragged Google to court citing “appearance of competition ads on their website”?

5. Which Canadian company has been awarded the contract of building and marketing Aakash, the $35 tablet conceived by IIT, Jodhpur?

India Mobile File - An Infographic

Interesting Infographic that I stumbled upon. One that shows country wise statistics on mobile usage, mobile ownership patterns and some tit-bits. Reproducing the India piece for you below here. For the full infographic click here

Close to 874 million mobile subscribers in India and 53% of them have lost their phone or have it stolen. Amazing fact !! No wonder Nokia and Samsung are having a roaring business here. ;-)


Greater than 60% of the 874 million mobile users have software that identifies their location. Are new GIS app developers listening?


Less than 40% of them have a password to protect their phone. I am one among thos 40% :-(

Top 5 MS Power Point Tips

A lot of my blog readers ask me to blog on tips that could enhance their computer productivity. Here's a first of a series of posts dedicated to all my readers

Power point has become so common a tool that every Windows user clicks on MS Power point icon when asked to research, create a presentation, draw a flowchart or even just take notes.

However, there is so much of power under the hood that hardly gets utilized. So here are the top 5 power point tips to upgrade your power point experience

1. Stop Ctrl+C (Copy) and Ctrl+V (Paste). Select an object and do a Ctrl+D (Duplicate). Not only are you reducing the number of key presses, the Duplicate shortcut also aligns every newly duplicated object to create a pattern of equidistant objects

2. Pasted a image and it has an irritating white background?. Relax. You can clear the white background by double-clicking on the image, go to Colors on the menu bar, select "Set Transparent Color" and click anywhere on the white background of the image

3. Do you have a table that does not fit into a single slide? Do not fret. You can divide the table across two slides and use a cool slide transition to let the audience know that the table is continuing over two slides. Select the first slide and Go to Transitions on the menu bar and select "Push" as the transition.

4. Need to fit the letters of a word onto a curve? Type your word. Select the text box. Go to Format on the menu bar. Select Text Effects --> Transform --> Follow Path and the needed layout.

5. You are projecting your slides and you suddenly need the audience to stop looking at the slides and focus on you the speaker. You can press "B" or "W" on the keyboard to produce a Black or White background respectively. This works only in Presentation mode.

So there you go. You should return to your workstation feeling a lot more energised :-)

Top 8 Indian Online Book Stores

Dedicated to all my book-aholic readers....a list of the top 5 Online Book stores in India

1. Flipkart - www.flipkart.com - Top of the mind recall store for books. What started off as chiefly a book store has today transformed into selling a lot of other category stuff. However, it still happens to be my first stop shop to lookup the latest books and not to mention the steepest discounts.
2. uRead - http://www.uread.com/ - I love uRead mainly because they have the best real estate utilization of their home page where the maximum number of titles hit you. They also have a real time dynamic Google map integrated app that shows titles being purchased in real-time.
3. BookAdda - http://www.bookadda.com/ - These folks allow you to create a virtual book shelf that can be shared on Facebook. It displays the books you have purchased/read recently. A cool ego-booster!
4. Oxford BookStore - http://www.oxfordbookstore.com - A decent online store that complements their offline physical stores.
5. Landmark - http://www.landmarkonthenet.com/ - Similar to their physical stores, LandMark, the Chennai based store chain sells both books and other stuff  on their online store.
6. Crossword - http://www.crossword.in/ - With 83 physical stores, Crossword started in 1992 has run into a bit of trouble in the brick and mortar  format and is downing the shutters in a quite a few cities. However, their online store is elegant an dmakes for a pleasant book search and purchase experience
7. Rediff Books - http://books.rediff.com/ - Boasts of 3.5 million titles online with the familiar Rediff look and feel.
8. Indiatimes Books - http://shopping.indiatimes.com/books/ - A run of the mill online book store I should say. 

Countries and Their Parliaments

Country	Name of Parliament
Afghanistan	Shura
Argentina	National Congress
Bahamas	General Assembly
Bangladesh	Jatiyo Sangsad
Bhutan	Tshogdu
Brazil	National Congress
Cambodia	National Assembly
Canada	Parliament of Canada
Denmark	Folketinget
Egypt	Consultative Council and People's Assembly
France	Parlement
Germany	Bundestag (Lower House) Bundestrat (Upper House)
India	Sansad Lok Sabha (Lower House) Rajya Sabha (Upper House)]
Iran	Majles
Iraq	National Assembly
Japan	The Diet
Libya	General People's Congress
Maldives	Majlis
Nepal	Sansad
Poland	Sejm
South Africa	House of Assembly
Spain	Cortes Generales (General Courts)
Sweden	Riksdagen
United Kingdom (UK)	Parliament (House of Commons and House of Lords)
United States	Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)

India’s Top 10 Ten Richest Persons of 2011

1. Mukesh Ambani

2. Lakshmi Mittal

3. Azim Premji

4. Ruia Brothers

5. Savitri Jindal

6. Sunil Bharti Mittal

7. Gautam Adani

8. Kumar Mangalam Birla

9. Pallonji Mistry

10. Adi Godrej