How to create and add Alexa ranking widget in your website or blog

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The two main factors that decides your website’s popularity is Alexa rank and Google Page rank which we have discussed earlier. Alexa shows the information for every websites globally, so adding your website details in Alexa is a good idea. Just a few posts back we have discussed that too about claiming and submitting your site in Alexa. Here we will see how to create and add Alexa ranking widget in your website or blog.

So why is Alexa rank important? Alexa shows the global traffic rank for a website and it is a competitive intelligence tool that is used to measure and compare your website with competitors. The ranking number helps advertisers to analyze the marketing capacity of your website. If you have a good ranking in Alexa then these advertisers will be ready to buy an ad space on your website for a really high price.

There are several strategies to increase your blog rankings in Alexa and one that quite helps to boost your ranking is by adding Alexa ranking widget. For Bloggers and webmasters, Alexa offers a widget which you can add it in your blog. By embedding the Alexa widget your site visitors will have a quick look at your website rank. If your website has a good ranking in Alexa then place this widget and show off your rank. Creating and adding Alexa ranking widget is very simple; here is how you do it.

How to create and add Alexa ranking widget in your website or blog

Head to Alexa >> Site owners >> widgets and you will see three different widgets that is Alexa site status button which shows your website rank with total number of links. The second one is Alexa traffic rank button which simply shows your site rank and the last one is Alexa traffic graph. Alexa offers these gadgets in three different sizes. Just enter your website name, click on build widget, choose the widget size, grab the HTML code and then paste it in your website.

Here are the Alexa widget codes for different sizes.

Alexa site status button

120 x 95

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogtimenow.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/a?url=blogtimenow.com"></script></a>

120 x 240

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogtimenow.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/b?url=blogtimenow.com"></script></a>

468 x 60

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogtimenow.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/c?url=blogtimenow.com"></script></a>

Alexa traffic rank button

120 x 65

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogtimenow.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/a?url=blogtimenow.com"></script></a>

120 x 90

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogtimenow.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/b?url=blogtimenow.com"></script></a>

468 x 60

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogtimenow.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/c?url=blogtimenow.com"></script></a>