“20 Ways to Game Alexa”

That’s the title of an article I just read. Actually, sorry, it’s what the title should have been. It was actually 20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank. Only a handful were real, long-term ways of increasing your rank, though. The rest were simply ways to manipulate your ranking for short-term gain.

Be very careful of advice like this that detracts you from what your focus should really be: creating real, interesting content that people actually want to read. Guess what happens when you do that. You get more visitors and — lo and behold — up goes your Alexa rank.

If you’re in this for the long haul, don’t spend any time trying to game a system or putting any weight on advice that shows you how. It will always catch up with you one way or another.