WordPress SEO Optimization Techniques
Maximizing your “Alexa traffic” using the more tag
If you are a website owner that is largely dependent upon the amount of Alexa traffic your site gets, then you need to maximize your sites potential for earnings. Web traffic plays a very important role if you want to make the sell of your products or services. Unfortunately, in today's online market, Alexa traffic plays an enormous factor, whether or not the visitor makes a purchase from you."There are a couple of simple things which you can do to improve your Alexa traffic rankings, that you may be over looking."
The most important thing to keep in mind when looking at Alexa statistics is that they were until recently, solely calculated on the data obtained from their Alexa Toolbar users.
Your Alexa website traffic ranking is based upon the combined measurement of reach and page views.
Reach is the calculation of the amount of web surfers who visit a site. Alexa Page views are calculated by the total number of requests for a website's URL, per Toolbar user. Multiple requests by the Web surfer on the same day/same URL are calculated as a single page view. Also, page views are provided and scaled in a graph, to be easily readable. The site with the highest combination of users and page views is ranked #1.
- - Simple ways to improve your Alexa traffic. - -
1. Use the <!--more--> tag when you create a post. This will automatically add a break in your post and display a short preview of your posts on your home page. Each preview includes a link to view the full post and that will give you an extra page view.
There are many of these plugins for WordPress which work very similar, so just do a search for, "WordPress Excerpts Plugin's," and you should be able to locate something to suit your needs.
Now, this method isn't going to tip the scales, but they will help maximize your web sites potential. Give it a try and see how much of a difference it makes in improving your Alexa rankings.
Spunky Jones.
