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I'm sure most people know by now about Alexa rankings. It's kinda like Google PR, except the lower your Alexa number, the better. With Google PR, the higher your PR, 0-10, the better.

If you use Firefox, you can install the Search Status extension, which does the exact same thing as the Alexa tool bar for IE, but you don't have to use IE, or install that tool bar which sets off most spyware catchers alarms.

Once you install it and restart your FF browser, the extension will give you your Google PR plus your Alexa ranking.
This will be the bar with blue on it.

How it works is this, every hit to your site or any site you visit, is counted once per day, per ip, towards your Alexa ranking.
Even your own first visit to your site everyday.
These hits to your site and others you visit, will help lower Alexa scores.

How else can you improve your Alexa?
Edit your contact info on your Alexa page.
How do you do that?
Well once you have the extension installed, go to your own site and right click on the bar with blue on it that is now installed on your status bar at the bottom of your FF browser.
Click on overview.
This will open up your Alexa page in a new window.
Click on the button that says edit info.
Edit your contact info.
You must have your own domain or the ability to add a site map to your site to be able to do this. Alexa requires a domain email to confirm you own your site, or a way to verify it's yours (site map).
Once you've gone through the verification process, you can ask others to write reviews for you on your Alexa page.
This will take them to Amazon.com to write the actual review.
The reviewer must have purchased from Amazon at least once, and be logged into their Amazon account in order to write a review.

That's it. These simple steps will help improve your Alexa rankings.
Much has been said recently about using this extension, that it's gaming Alexa. It's not. It does the exact same thing as the IE Alexa tool bar.
So go get it, keep it updated, and improve your ranking.