Lots of advertisers like Text Link Ads use Alexa Rank as a measure of how valuable ad space is on your blog. In fact, I’m pretty sure it can be a large factor as to whether they’ll even accept your blog into their publisher program. Alexa Rank is based on how much traffic your blog or web site gets, but the problem with this is that it only counts visits from those who have the Alexa Toolbar installed in their browser. Now there may be another way.

Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey has posted How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step. All you have to do is copy the javascript code for the Alexa Widget and paste it somewhere in the code for your site. The idea is that Alexa will then know about your traffic by the number of times this widget is loaded.

The Widget looks like:

Yaro reports that this very quickly brought up his Alexa Ranking by 25%. I just installed the widget code today so I haven’t noticed any improvement yet. As I write this my rank is showing as 9,211,297. I’ll be watching it and reporting back the results in a few days or so.