Did you read the title? Yes it is a fact from 22 million to 99,769 in just ten months. Are you not slightly intrigued how I did it? Don’t you want to know the magic trick?
Well I will of course tell you.
When I decided to write again on my blog, it was almost four years old. Had an alexa of 22 million. Page views a measly 5000 *shudders* and yes no traffic whatsoever. It was alone, dying a peaceful death.
But I decided to try it again. My last experience had been pathetic. People who had started blogging with me and had continued, were today some of the top, much talked about bloggers. I knew what a huge task I had cut out for myself.
Alexa rank. These two words kept surfing every now and then. So I started to read up on it. Courtesy our common friend Google!
Take one.
What were the three common things connecting all those articles titled “In two months alexa under 100,00!” :
Get yourself an alexa toolbar
Install an alexa widget on your site
Write engaging content
And yes voila tomorrow you will see that your blog’s alexa is still 22000890. You have done a marvelous job my friend. *sarcasm*
Take two.
I slowly started to read people. Crawling through the indiblogger indivine stream. Made sure I read all the blogs that I came across embedded in people’s posts as well. And yes on the side continued to write. Wrote everyday- got zero comments, ten page views and life carried on.
But this time round I had decided I will persevere. I will not back out.
You see the basic issue with me was that I cannot write parenting posts (for obvious reasons 😀 ) and satire is not my forte. I love reading those posts, no offense to that. But that is the only thing that seemed to be working in Indian blogosphere back then! Or so I thought.
But then write tribe happened. What they did for me or how they assisted me in my journey you can read here.
Here is my new set of rules for improving your alexa rank.
1. Technology updates
The only bit of technology update that you need is to install an alexa widget in your site and browser.
2. Content
Find your true calling. Don’t for one see others and ape their styles. There must be something unique that you bring to the table. Bring that. And ensure that the idea of generating content is not traffic alone but a thought to create something you would like to read yourself.
P.S Almost everyday I re-read at least two of my blogposts.
3. Community
I personally feel teamwork and sticking together can help achieve a lot. I for one felt that about blogging too. Internationally a lot of bloggers create their own groups and ensure to read each other come what may. This sort of solidarity mutually benefits everyone. And creates a circle of togetherness that goes beyond blogging.
In write tribe I found my space 🙂
4. Social media
Whatever I will say here will be less. Creating a stamp or presence in social media will go a long way in helping you get the desired spotlight. Content’s true appreciator is the reader. And if reader doesn’t get to see your posts what good will come off it? Or how else can your voice be heard.
Social media is the tool for you to communicate your content to the world. More on that in future posts!
5. Not every action will reveal a result tomorrow
This one I took a while to understand. If today you will create some content, it could be that it generates traffic months later for you. Blogging these last ten months I imbibed a lot of patience. I kept telling myself that I need to stick to a feeling of doing something right, results will flow in later.
6. The real reader is the one who never comments
A lot has been said about bloggers commenting on posts or the lack of sincerity in same. But my point is that bloggers form a minuscule part of your traffic. If you are banking alone on them, then you can never reach a stable traffic. The real reader is the one who never comments, who has stumbled upon your blog in some odd way and likes to read you. Either he is too lazy to comment or shy, but he will return. And he will return not to comment but to read.
Pageviews are a product of these.
7. Don’t get involved in blogging theatrics
Yes you heard me right. A lot goes in the blogging circles. For heaven’s sake there is even a bloggers’ confession page! Yes the world is same everywhere. And I know that some of them resort to all this to generate spotlight or as they say no publicity is negative publicity. But I have learnt something, after a while the readers return for you and your content not the hoopla around it.
Stable pageviews can never be an offshoot of anything but your sincere writing or content.
8. Believe that there is someone out there better than you and you need to find that blog
I mean this very sincerely. This will always ensure that you are striving to get better and better each day. You are on constant search for good content yourself and learning from it. Remember every good blogger is first a great reader.
Honestly I survived to tell.
I formed a plan and stuck to it. If tomorrow this alexa slips or doesn’t surface back I am okay about it. I believe I have proven a point I wished to tell. That blogging done my way will be blogging done the best way.
Thank you everyone who was here as a part of my journey. You know who you are and yes I dedicate this particular post to you people.
Tomorrow is a brand new day and yes now for a while I am target less. Perhaps some odd day I will read about something else and another journey will begin. Anyways this one has still not stopped right?
Sayonara.
Connecting it with Write Tribe’s day of festival. The prompt was Inspiring stories!
Congrats Richa. Some great points made here. But just couldnt get the reason for adding alexa toolbar to my blog. Any reason for it? I am kinda technology dud :/
I also don’t know the reason behind having the toolbar, but they say it works and well it does 😀
Congratulations on your success and thank you for your helpful tips. ♥
Thanks Kathy, you all were a vital part of the journey <3
Congrats Richa!
And such helpful tips!! Thank you dear 🙂
Thanks sweets 🙂
Thanks for sharing these important points, Richa.
Glad that you benefited out of WT. We all do.
WT is a grand forum and a good place to be for all the encouragement and support one receives.
Yes it is one amazing forum 🙂
Wow, that is great Richa, and inspiring too! I see I have a lot to learn about technological tools. Very useful tips you gave – inspiring indeed:-)
Thanks eli. and about technology we all have to learn our bit 😀
That’s a great post, Richa…I never really bothered about the numbers, but guess I would check too, some day!
haha no no don’t bother. If you are not taken to numbers, then chill 😀
now this was informative indeed!
Thanks 🙂
Great post! Thank you!
You were so correct about in the end it is all about your reader’s…your audience.
Far more people read than comment.
Thanks again.
Kathy Hadley
Thanks Kathy for visiting 🙂 and a lot more people read than comment something I had started to notice 🙂
So much good stuff here – thank you! I used to be all set up with Alexa, but things got lost or broken in a site upgrade and I’ve never found the time to fix them. You’ve inspired me!
Oh have I? That makes me very happy 🙂
Congratulations on reaching under 100,000! What an achievement! I’m only at 1,736,145 sadness 🙁 By the way I just wanted to mention that you have 100,000 written as 100,00 once or twice. -Paulette Romero
Thanks Paulette will go check 🙂
Hi Richa, Thanks for this post and the tips. With 13 posts old, I am yet to get into WT. Will get there shortly. Read your other story on how you resurfaced. Congratulations on your success.
Thanks a lot Jayanta 🙂
Congratulations, Richa! And that’s impressive! Thanks for the tips 🙂
Thanks a lot Shilpa 🙂 and you were an amazing part of it 🙂
Congratulations, that’s a great feat. I think I’m going short in many things right now specially on the social network front. These will be really helpful 🙂 😀
I believe so… and perhaps you can try to up it by sticking close to this blog, we will be updating some posts here about them..
Congrats Richa! Way to go, lady!
Need to follow your tips & better my rank! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I hope it helps Anita 🙂
Hey Richa congrats! This is very helpful info! Thanks for sharing! 😀 And yes…wish U a very Happy Women’s Day! In a way ur n my blogging journeys r similar! I also left my poor blog quite inactive esp. wen my activity shifted to FB! Nw m really happy wid my blog n Twitter! 🙂
Well most of us get dwarfed by the blogging world in one go 😀
back links and traffic from back links 🙂 peace 🙂 and you win 🙂
haha well yes that too. But to achieve it you need time…
Whoa ! I did not realize that you achieved this in just 10 months .. I seem to hovering between 1.4 L and 2 L for years now 🙁
And thanks for telling about the Write Tribe. I need some inspiration
Well believe me it is a wonderful world to be a part of 🙂 you my friend anyways are beyond numbers, your blog is in a class of its own 🙂
Rightly said, the real reader is not the one who comments. Once you publish your post, its valid and original only for a couple of days. That means the life of any article is just a couple of days. Once the freshness of the article starts to diminish, the readers will shy away. Also once you publish your article, your main source of page views are these communities, social media and other publishing platforms. But ultimately its the Google who finds your article on long term. That means once your post loses its relevancy, you get traffic only from Google. Through Google Search, people may find your article and get you traffic.
Yes Krishna that is how it works 🙂 google plays an important part in this journey 😀
Wow that number translates into happiness points i am sure.Thanks for the tip.
I wish I could disagree… it does translate into some happiness 🙂
Some Great pointers here.. Really Helpful
Glad you found so Salesh 🙂
thank you so much richa gr8 help to me, right now i am standing where you were. hope i too manage for a while. plzzzzzzz give an honest opinion of my blog if u visit. i would love to hear from you. dxbnidblog
I am sure you will manage and will surely drop by 🙂
That is very helpful Richa. This blog of mine is 7 months old now. I have heard of Alexa ranking but never understood it. I will definitely give it a shot too. 🙂 Three Cheers to Write Tribe! And yes, I need to develop my reading blogs habit a bit more. 🙂
I personally feel that blog reading take a lot of us very far in this journey 🙂
First up, a little late to comment here. This is a wonderfully inspiring post, Richa. Not many of us know of Alexa rankings and how much it can do for your blog. As you said, most of us read and write because we love to. Communites are so so helpful in this. And that boosts the sense of belongingness too. Thanks for sharing the tips with us, we never know who all will benefit out of this. And for sharing the inspiration with us, *clap clap clap* 🙂
Sreeja because we all are a part of this world together, we need to understand that any progress when supported by a team can be well sustained..
Tricks don’t work, right?
No they don’t 😀
I am so frustrated after all this , it took me ages to figure how to download the Alexa Rank and now that i have and my rank is so bad, any way thanks hope it brings in some page views!
Well initially we all feel like that but once the blog proceeds the rank improves and it all settles 😀
Congrats and thanks for the nice tips!
You are welcome sweets 🙂
You have good writing skills and you deserved it. As for the tips, they are genuine and I am sure they already helped me in a way. As for the bit about authentic readership, it’s again a case of tit-for-tat thing…but then this is the way online forums work these days
Yes unfortunately it is. But I believe identifying a set of genuine readers can help solve that bit too..
Congrats richa.. Those tips are great .. and the way you persisted is definitely inspiring ..
Thanks a lot and I am glad you liked them 🙂
How to Add Alexa Widget https://nobitasworld.com/how-to-add-alexa-widget-to-your-blogger-website/
This is the definite answer to everyone out there looking for traffic and readers… one of the inspiring thing I read this year 🙂
Amritt
*one of the most inspiring things
My dear your words are truly inspiring. Where there is a will, there is a way. You have found the way and are being generous enough to help others find it too. Bravo and Salut 🙂
Thanks Kala 🙂 Idea is to build a community through interactions and posting 🙂 Simple and effective 🙂
Thanks for sharing your story Richa 🙂 It’s inspiring to see you succeed in your goal 🙂