If you are serious about doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO), one of the things you need to improve is your Alexa ranking. Here are some simple tips to help raise that ranking and get more visitors to your site!

1. If you're using Firefox as your browser, add Alexa SearchStatus - it will track hits. Here is the link: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
   
2. Once you have SearchStatus installed, set your index or blog as your default homepage. Note: if you work in an office - set all the computers up with Firefox and use SearchStatus. Encourage your friends or readers of your blog to do the same. If you are in Europe, make friends with an owner of a cybercafe and have them do this simple step. It's all about getting traffic that is recordable.
   
3. Sign up at Alexa and put a widget on your website. Rate your site and have friends and co-workers do the same. 
4. Pay-per-click ads will bring in more traffic and help increase your Alexa rank, but this will require good content and good ads. I'd only suggest this for sites that are established and are looking to move to the next step.
   
5. Try putting material up on Digg.com or Stumbledupdon.com.
   
6. There are some other ways to artificially increase your rank, but getting it the old fashioned way is better. Alexa may adjust for drastic increases. Be wary of anyone promising you dramatic results quickly.

With these ideas, and probably some others you find around the web, you should be improving your Alexa ranking every quarter!

Tags: Firefox | SearchStatus | Tips | SEO | Alexa | Rob

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It's finally here and I'd like to thank the whole team and our patient developers for all their hard work and effort.

We switched from standard HTML to a content management site that allows us to make updates with much more frequency. In choosing a content management system (CMS), we wanted to make sure it was scaleable, customizable, under active development and had an active community. We ultimately chose Joomla as our content management system and even uploaded it to a faster server so everyone can enjoy it.

The new site offers our clients access to more resources and up-to-date information. We added a blog, case studies and social media links to Facebook and LinkedIn (see the Stay In Touch section). Further, we've made it easier to access past newsletters for reference, browse our portfolio, find our services, get the latest news about the team, read team bios and even transfer and store files.

There still some features under development and we'll keep you informed of those updates here in the blog.

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Tags: Rob | Davidson & Belluso | content management system | cms | joomla | website

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