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I think increasing visitors in yahoo, Google and live search engines are easily but in case of Alexa it is difficult. I am getting very good traffic from other search engine but i am not getting that much visitors in Alexa.

Can anybody suggest me how can i achieve visitors from Alexa

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Short update and context (historic thread): the Alexa Traffic Rank service was officially retired by Amazon on May 1, 2022, and the old human-edited Open Directory Project (DMOZ) went offline in 2017. That means the tactics suggested earlier in this thread — submitting to DMOZ or relying on an Alexa toolbar panel — are historical and won’t help today. (en.wikipedia.org)

If the goal is “more visitors” the practical path is measurement + user-focused improvements, not chasing a third‑party rank. Use current tools to measure real behavior (Google Analytics 4) and visibility (Search Console), and pay attention to page experience metrics (Core Web Vitals). Those signals drive search performance and user retention today. (health-improve.org)

Quick, actionable checklist you can apply now:

  • Verify and monitor your site in Google Search Console and set up a GA4 property to collect real traffic and conversion data.
  • Run a technical audit (crawl errors, index coverage, robots, canonical tags) and fix the top 3 issues blocking indexing.
  • Improve page experience: reduce LCP, fix layout shifts (CLS), and improve responsiveness (INP); use PageSpeed Insights and the Core Web Vitals reports.
  • Produce people-first content (solve specific user problems, original analysis) and promote it via email, niche communities, and targeted outreach — not mass directory submissions.
  • Build links the modern way: earn editorial links from relevant sites, guest posts with clear value, and partnerships; avoid paid link schemes.

Tie-back to earlier replies: and described tactics that once mattered; , and others were right that backlinks and distribution matter — but apply them under today’s rules (quality, relevance, transparency). For measuring progress, rely on owned metrics (GA4, server logs, conversion rates) and reputable market tools (Semrush/Similarweb) rather than a retired Alexa rank.

Summary: Alexa rank is no longer a thing — focus on real visitors, measurable improvements, and defensible SEO practices.

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Member Avatar for Techie08

Alexa is a difficult engine to go through because it's primarily based out of which is also incredibly hard to get through, mostly because it's all human-based and it takes up to 3 months (or so) just to review sites before they're added. Not to mention if you submit to the wrong directory you don't even get in. It's a tricky directory in that sense, thus making Alexa just as tricky. My suggestion to you would be to submit your site to a few different categories in dmoz and then wait, you can't really do too much else... make sure the content you submit to dmoz is current and saturated with accuracy and you should be good. Hope this helps!

Member Avatar for mauconline

In addition to submitting your site to Dmoz, you'll have to find a way to encourage your visitors to download, install and use the free Alexa toolbar as often as possible whenever they visit your site.

But if you're already getting good traffic from other search engines the you shouldn't loose any sleep over Alexa.

Member Avatar for WebDave

Yes Using Alexa toolbar does attract some benefits to your website. Keep on increasing the number of backlinks to your website every week and you will see some good results within a month.

Member Avatar for ruelpopo

submit on article sites to increase

Member Avatar for Hafsoh

Alexa is popular to measure the traffic rank of your website, its check your log file of the domain on your server and on that bases it decide the traffic rank.

Member Avatar for Robdale

ok, using alexa toolbar does effects your website visitors. But, can anyone tell me how exactly the toolbar works to attract the visitors for your site?

Member Avatar for snapshot

Many times when you take a look at the status of the top ranking websites in the Alexa engine, you will notice that it automatically picks some links and adds to the rankings and placements of the sites.

I think it takes a look at the Google placements of the sites to determine their popularity, just a guess.

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increasing visitors in yahoo, Google and live search engines are easily but in case of Alexa it is difficult

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