Alexa ranking is one factor which determines a sites popularity. Some advertiser network like reviewme, text link ads, Blogads etc only select your blog to participate in their program only after checking your site rank in Alexa. Alexa is the only source to know the website rankings of websites. Often alexa rank can be manipulated, but there is an extend to which this manipulation can be done. To an extend you can improve your rank by thousands by using some of the techniques i am going to tell.

The Alexa Rank is determined by the Number of users that visits a particular website with the alexa toolbar installed. So you cannot claim this to be an exact ranking as many people will not have alexa toolbars installed. Alexa toolbar according to trends are installed by a bit techy and web oriented people.

Ways to Improve Alexa ranking

1. Install the Alexa Toolbar. You can download the toolbar from alexa.com (Internet Explorer Download | Firefox Download)
2. Alexa provides the traffic ranking widgets which you can place in your site.You can see on of the kind in adheeth.com on the right side. This is because it can keep a track of the number of users that hits your site and thus can improve a bit of your alexa ranking.
3. Writing a review or post about alexa is also one method to improve the ranking. This is simply because webmaster are always in the hunt for ways to improve your alexa ranking and there is chance that this post of yours can generate traffic from those sources which have alexa toolbar installed.
4. Use alexa redirect link to link to your website from other websites
   Eg: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.adheeth.com
   you can replace adheeth.com with your Domain Name.
5. Join as many webmaster forums as you can and put the link to your website as signature and try participating in some discussions so that your link get noticed and some traffic can be generated.
6. There are also scripts which you can use to send in traffic to your website that will improve a bit of your ranking
7. Submit to as many directories and link submission programs
8. Get your friends to install toolbar and set your website as their homepage.
9. Show only post excerpts in homepage so that you get two page impressions from a single user if the user decides to read the rest of the content
10. Comment on others Blog and give your Url in the field.This you can either give the redirect url or your proper url.

The complete basic funda here to improve the rank is to get those traffic with alexa toolbar installed and let alexa monitor your traffic so that your rank can just rise.