Since moving to his own domain (from Blogspot) in the middle of January 2007, Dosh Dosh has moved from a rank of around 3 million to the current Alexa rank of 21, 709 within two months.

According to Dosh Dosh the increase in web traffic was due to

"The growth has been consistent and I think most of it was due to the fact that the content on Dosh Dosh is orientated towards webmasters. Another plausible reason is because overall daily traffic for Dosh Dosh has been growing steadily day by day.

The increase in Alexa Rank was also partially due to the fact that I’m active in several webmaster forums, notably Digital Point which sends me some visitors every day. Getting stumbled and receiving thousands of visitors in a day has also undoubtedly helped to increase Dosh Dosh’s Alexa Rank."

How do I get started with Alexa?

There are two easy ways to start using Alexa.

If you are using Internet Explorer, download the Alexa Toolbar. If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension which displays the Alexa Rank, Google PageRank as well as other useful features.

I highly recommend that you use Firefox and SearchStatus instead of Alexa toolbar, which I find to be more bulky and less useful.



Can one actually game or manipulate the Alexa Ranking?

This is the biggest question of all and lot are behind this to find it's answer but,

I and of course many other believe that there are methods which will allow you to easily bring an Alexa ranking in the millions down to the 100,000 level. However, bringing it past the 10,000 or 1,000 mark is a considerably more difficult process, because of the stiff competition among websites.

Some have adamantly stated that there are no proven ways to game Alexa(o really), while others have claimed that auto-surfs and scripts do work to some degree.

I will not take any sides because I can’t guarantee that auto-surfs or other artificial methods will have similar effects for every blog.

Therefore the easiest way to know to know if any of the tips mentioned in next post really work is to actually try them for yourselves and monitor the results.