1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.

4. Work in an Office or own a company? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers. Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic or different IPs are used.

5. Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.

6. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.

7. Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.

8. Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.

9. Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.premium-sms.us . Replace premium-sms.us with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help. There is no official proof that redirects positively benefit your Alexa Rank, so use with caution.

Akismet – This plugin helps eliminate comment spam.

Optimal Title – This plugin allows you to optimize the title of your blog post in order to improve your search engine rankings.

Ultimate Tag Warrior- The best tag system for WordPress.

Google Sitemap Generator – This plugin will enable you to automatically generate a Google sitemap for your blog.

Show Top Commentators – This plugin encourages feedback and discussion by rewarding the top commentators with a link back to their site in the sidebar.

Related Posts – This plugin will find other blog posts that are related to the current post. This encourages extra page views and keeps readers at your blog for a longer period of time.

Super Archive – One of the best archives system.

WP-Cache – This plugin is an extremely efficient caching system that will make your site much faster.

WP-ContactForm – This plugin allows your readers to easily email you. It also helps avoid spam.

Popularity Contest – This plugin determines which of your posts are most popular and then puts them in the sidebar.

Adsense Deluxe – This plugin makes it easy to implement Adsense into your blog.

Sociable – This plugin helps you spread your content through social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us,reddit, and others.

Feedburner Feed Replacement – This plugin directs all of your feed traffic to Feedburner, ensuring accurate readership stats. This plugin will also convert any existing subscribers from the old feed to the FeedBurner
one.

Of course whilst most of us know this it doesn’t make getting such links any easier – its in the hands of others in many cases. So how do you get such links?

* Quality Content – The best way to get links to your blog is to write quality content that people will want to read.
* Notify Relevant Bloggers of your content – link up with other blogs, you would just get the traffic redirected and might result in good google page rank.
* Directories – Another way to generating inbound links is to submit your links to directories. There are loads of directories out there, many of which offer a free submission.
* Inter-link your Blogs – Link blogs which you own to each other. See to that you have those hosted by different server else SEO might not work.
* Buy Links – if you have a budget to purchase links from other highly ranked and and relevant sites which i don’t suggest for rookies.
* Swap Links – Similarly many bloggers swap links with other bloggers. There is some benefit in such link swapping I would again advise caution here as many SEO experts believe that the search engines have methods for tracking such strategies and devaluing the links. Some try to get around this by doing indirect or triangulated links. ie instead of site A and B doign a direct swap they involve other sites. So A links to C in exchange for D (also owned by C) linking to B (also owned by A) – makes your head hurt doesn’t it!?! There are also a variety of systems around that say they’ll take care of such interlinking for you.

Link exchange can be done here below.

- Link Adage
- Text Link Ads
- Link Worth
- Link referral

Now the Google PageRank algorithm can be very complexed, but yet friendly invention. Here is a list of things that could help boost you Google PageRank, with a rating scale beside it of how important we think it is.

* Update Pages Frequently 2/10
* Add Pages Frequently 4/10
* Good Neighborhood Directories with high PageRank Levels 7/10
* Monster Websites 7/10
* Quality Inbound links 8/10
* Quality Relevant Links 9/10
* No Broken Links 5/10
* Article Submissions (this can increase your PageRank by getting more inbound links)
* All these put together 10/10

But don’t expect to get a pagerank of 10. Just follow the above steps and which might result in good pagerank.

Okay now we are to the Google PageRank Calculations, this is very simple, I learned it over night, not really. The factors about Google PageRank Calculation is that no one knows exactly how it works, but people have discovered over time somewhat how it works, but lets get into an example.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn))

Above is a Google PageRank algorithm that was released in the development of Google blog. The above is the equation Which google is not telling us what it does, but that does not matter because the equation is good enough.

In the equation ‘t1 – tn’ are pages linking to page A, ‘C’ is the number of outbound links that a page has and ‘d’ is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.

A more simpler way to think of it is:

a page’s PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a “share” of the PageRank of every page that links to it)

Share = The linking page’s PageRank is divided by the number of outbound links

A page “votes” an amount of PageRank onto each page that it links to. The amount of PageRank that it has to vote with is a little less than its own PageRank value (its own value * 0.85). This value will be shared equally between all pages

Therefore; it would be better to get a page linked to you that has a PageRank of 5 with 2 outbound links then it would be to have a page linked to you with a PageRank of 8 with 500 outbound links, but don’t get me wrong. It would be better to have both pages linked to you, but if you was to take your choice, think about it.

Now the Google PageRank algorithm is based between a pr of 1 to 10, but many people believe that numbers are set to a algo logarithmic scale. Which there is a very good reason to believe this, but no one knows for sure outside of google, now there has probably been people that have figured it out somewhat, but to be sure, you can’t exactly find how they calculate but can try writing google pagerank algorithm on your own.

Hi. This is my first post and here is my new own domain which i was thinking to buy for a long time. I have lot of ideas to bring up this blog. At present i’ll stick with a non-personal blog and i’ll post on how to improve your blog and other internet world information. I’ll blog better and better in future.

What other ways can we all improve? What would you recommend *I* do to improve this blog?