deddynoer: Perempuan Shaleh

Posted 20/01/2009 by deddynoer
Categories: Tentang Hidoep

“Benarkah hadis yang mengatakan bahwa kebanyakan penghuni neraka itu perempuan?” tanya seorang murid kepada Imam Ja’far. Fakih besar abad kedua hijrah itu tersenyum. “Tidakkah anda membaca ayat Al-Qur’an – Sesungguhnya Kami menciptakan mereka sebenar-benarnya; Kami jadikan mereka gadis-gadis perawan, penuh cinta dan berusia sebaya (QS 56:36-37). Ayat ini berkenaan dengan para bidadari, yang Allah ciptakan dari perempuan yang saleh. Di surga lebih banyak bidadari daripada laki-laki mukmin.” Secara tidak langsung, Imam Ja’far menunjukkan bahwa hadis itu tidak benar, bahwa kebanyakan penghuni surga justru perempuan.

Hadis yang ‘mendiskreditkan’ perempuan ternyata sudah masyhur sejak abad kedua hijrah. Tetapi sejak itu juga sudah ada ahli agama yang menolaknya. Dari Imam Ja’far inilah berkembang mazhab Ja’fari, yang menetapkan bahwa akikah harus sama baik buat laki-laki maupun perempuan. Pada mazhab-mazhab yang lain, untuk anak laki-laki disembelih dua ekor domba, untuk anak perempuan seekor saja. Mengingat sejarahnya, mazhab Ja’fari lebih tua, karena itu lebih dekat dengan masa Nabi daripada mazhab lainnya. Boleh jadi, hadis-hadis yang memojokkan perempuan itu baru muncul kemudian: sebagai produk budaya yang sangat maskulin?

Karena banyak ayat turun membela perempuan, pada zaman Nabi para sahabat memperlakukan istri mereka dengan sangat sopan. Mereka takut, kata Abdullah, wahyu turun mengecam mereka. Barulah setelah Nabi meninggal, mereka mulai bebas berbicara dengan istri mereka (Bukhari). Umar, ayah Abdullah, menceritakan bagaimana perempuan sangat bebas berbicara kepada suaminya pada zaman Nabi.

Ketika Umar membentak karena istrinya membantahnya dengan perkataan yang keras istrinya berkata: Kenapa kamu terkejut karena aku membantahmu? Istri-istri Nabi pun sering membantah Nabi dan sebagian malah membiarkan Nabi marah sejak siang sampai malam. Ucapan itu mengejutkan Umar: Celakalah orang yang berbuat seperti itu. Ia segera menemui Hafsah, salah seorang istri Nabi: Betulkah sebagian di antara kalian membuat Nabi marah sampai malam hari? Betul, jawab Hafsah (Bukhari).

Menurut riwayat lain, sejak itu Umar diam setiap kali istrinya memarahinya. Aku membiarkannya, kata Umar, karena istriku memasak, mencuci, mengurus anak-anak, padahal semua itu bukan kewajiban dia. Anehnya, sekarang, di dunia Islam, pekerjaan itu dianggap kewajiban istri. Ketika umat Islam memasuki masyarakat industri, berlipat gandalah pekerjaan mereka. Berlipat juga beban dan derita mereka. Untuk menghibur mereka para mubalig (juga mubalighat) bercerita tentang pahala buat wanita saleh yang mengabdi (atau menderita) untuk suaminya: Sekiranya manusia boleh sujud kepada manusia lain, aku akan memerintahkan istri untuk sujud kepada suaminya (hadis 1). Bila seorang perempuan menyakiti suaminya, Allah tidak akan menerima salatnya dan semua kebaikan amalnya sampai dia membuat suaminya senang (hadis 2). Siapa yang sabar menanggung penderitaan karena perbuatan suaminya yang jelek, ia diberi pahala seperti pahala Asiyah binti Mazahim (hadis 3). Setelah hadis-hadis ini, para khatib pun menambahkan cerita-cerita dramatis. Konon, Fathimah mendengar Rasul menyebut seorang perempuan yang pertama kali masuk surga. Ia ingin tahu apa yang membuatnya semulia itu. Ternyata, ia sangat menaati suaminya begitu rupa, sehingga ia sediakan cambuk setiap kali ia berkhidmat kepada suaminya. Ia tawarkan tubuhnya untuk dicambuk kapan saja suaminya mengira service-nya kurang baik.

Cerita ini memang dibuat-buat saja. Tidak jelas asal-usulnya. Tetapi hadis-hadis itu memang termaktub dalam kitab-kitab hadis. Hadis 1: diriwayatkan dalam Sunan Abu Dawud. Tetapi Bukhari (yang lebih tinggi kedudukannya dari Abu Dawud) dan Ahmad meriwayatkan hadis sebagai berikut: Ketika Aisyah ditanya apa yang dilakukan Rasulullah di rumahnya, ia berkata: “Nabi melayani keperluan istrinya menyapu rumah, menjahit baju, memperbaiki sandal, dan memerah susu.” Anehnya, hadis ini jarang disebut oleh para mubalig. Karena bertentangan dengan ‘kepentingan laki-laki’?

Hadis-hadis lainnya ternyata dipotong pada bagian yang merugikan laki-laki. Setelah hadis 2, Nabi berkata,”Begitu pula laki-laki menanggung dosa yang sama seperti itu bila ia menyakiti dan berbuat zalim kepada istrinya.” Dan sebelum hadis 3, Nabi berkata, “Barang siapa yang bersabar (menanggung penderitaan) karena perbuatan istrinya yang buruk, Allah akan Memberikan untuk setiap kesabaran yang dilakukannya pahala seperti yang diberikan kepada Nabi Ayyub.” Tetapi, begitulah, kelengkapan hadis ini jarang keluar dari khotbah Mubalig (yang umumnya laki-laki ).

Maka sepeninggal Nabi, perempuan disuruh berkhidmat kepada laki-laki, sedangkan laki-laki tidak diajari berkhidmat kepada perempuan. Fikih yang semuanya dirumuskan laki-laki menempatkan perempuan pada posisi kedua. Beberapa gerakan Islam yang dipimpin laki-laki menampilkan ajaran Islam yang ‘memanjakan’ laki-laki. Ketika sebagian perempuan muslimat menghujat fikih yang mapan, banyak laki-laki saleh itu berang. Mereka dituduh agen feminisme Barat, budak kaum kuffar. Mereka dianggap merusak sunnah Nabi. Nabi saw berkata, “Samakanlah ketika kamu memberi anak-anakmu. Bila ada kelebihan, berikan kelebihan itu kepada anak perempuan.” Ketika ada sahabat yang mengeluh karena semua anaknya perempuan, Nabi berkata, “Jika ada yang mempunyai anak perempuan saja, kemudian ia memeliharanya dengan sebaik-baiknya, anak perempuan itu akan menjadi pengahalang baginya dari api neraka (Muslim). Pendeknya, dahulukan perempuan, kata Nabi dahulu. Pokoknya utamakan laki-laki, teriak kita sekarang

deddynoer: WIDGETS FOR YOUR BLOG

Posted 20/01/2009 by deddynoer
Categories: Tentang Blog

Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you’d like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. We’ve assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is – don’t overdo it!

MyBlogLog’s Recent Readers – this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they’re also members of MyBlogLog.

Mashable – get the latest social networking news from this very site.

Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge – display images from your Flickr profile with a handy Flash photo stream.

Preview Anywhere – see a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

Twitter Badge – if your life is so interesting that everyone must know what you’re up to all the time, then a Twitter badge is the ideal counterpart to your blog. It’ll proudly displays your recent tweets.

Digg News – display the latest Digg links on your blog. Themeable and fully customizable.

FEEDJIT – real time traffic data directly in your blog’s sidebar.

LineBuzz – inline comments for your blog. Very handy for blogs with frequent lively discussions.

Flixn – display a stream directly from your webcam, so your blog visitors can always see what you’re up to.

Google Map Widget – display a searchable Google Map on your website.

Google Video Search – add a video search form and selected videos to your web site.

Odeo player – display an Odeo player for and podcast right there in your sidebar.

AuctionAds – a widget that displays auctioned items on eBay, and gives you a percentage of the price paid when sometimes buys an item.

aStore – similar to AuctionAds, only for Amazon. Create a mini-store on your site and receive profit when someone buys an item through your store.

Plazes – show your current location on a Plazes map.

Stockalicious – track your portfolio with this widget, and share it with others. Let everyone know how much money you’ve lost.

Yahoo! For Good – create a charity badge and ask for donations for a worthy cause.

Giftspace – your friends never know what to buy you for birthday? Let them know what you really want with this nifty widget.

MixMap – see where are the visitors to your MySpace profile from on a map.

del.icio.us Tagometer – display how many times have del.icio.us users saved your page.

del.icio.us Linkrolls – this badge shows your latest bookmarks from del.icio.us.

Timelines – need to create a timeline? Seek no further. This widget makes it really easy.

PollDaddy – PollDaddy lets you create beautiful polls in no time, and display them at your blog.

Vizu – another poll-making widget, compatible with all major blog platforms.

AnswerTips – display definitions from Answers.com for various terms on your blog. The definitions are shown in bubbles which are activated on doubleclick.

AnswerBoxes – give your visitors a chance to enter a term themselves, and get a definition from Answers.com

Now Playing – if you got to share your current playlist contents with the world, Sigamp will do the trick. Works with most popular music players, including Foobar, Winamp, iTunes and others.

BuzzBoost – display headlines from your RSS feed on any website.

LibraryThing – show off the latest books you’ve been reading.

Plaxo Address Book – let your most faithful visitors access their address books direclty from your site.

WikiSeek – search Wikipedia with this simple widget.

FeedCount – show off the number of visitors to your blog with this handy little button.

Technorati Link Count – display the number of links your website has from one of the biggest blog authorities – Technorati.

MyPageRank – another good way to show how “big” your blog is is to show off your Google PageRank.

CheckPageRank – in addition to showing your PageRank, this widget also shows your Alexa ranking.

BlinkxIt – embed a link to related videos directly into your website.

Skype button – display your Skype online/offline status on your blog.

RockYou Horoscope – not something I would personally use, but some people are into horoscope. Hell, most people are into horoscope. Anyway, this widget shows horoscope (doh!) and does it in a nicely designed colorful box.

deddynoer: Sitemaps

Posted 20/01/2009 by deddynoer
Categories: Tentang Blog

In general, there are two types of sitemaps. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site – often by section – and is meant to help users find the information they need.

XML Sitemaps – usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S – are a way for you to give Google information about your site. This is the type of Sitemap we’ll be discussing in this article.

In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

  • Your site has dynamic content.
  • Your site has pages that aren’t easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process – for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or Flash.
  • Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn’t well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
  • Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

You can also use a Sitemap to provide Google with additional information about your pages, including:

  • How often the pages on your site change. For example, you might update your product page daily, but update your About Me page only once every few months.
  • The date each page was last modified.
  • The relative importance of pages on your site. For example, your home page might have a relative importance of 1.0, category pages have an importance of 0.8, and individual blog entries or product pages have an importance of 0.5. This priority only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn’t impact the ranking of your pages in search results.

Sitemaps provide additional information about your site to Google, complementing our normal methods of crawling the web. We expect they will help us crawl more of your site and in a more timely fashion, but we can’t guarantee that URLs from your Sitemap will be added to the Google index. Sites are never penalized for submitting Sitemaps.

Google adheres to Sitemap Protocol 0.9 as defined by sitemaps.org. The Sitemap Protocol is a dialect of XML for summarizing Sitemap information that is relevant to web crawlers. Sitemaps created for Google using Sitemap Protocol 0.9 are therefore compatible with other search engines that adopt the standards of sitemaps.org.

deddynoer: Cara Menangani Virus Bulu Bebek

Posted 19/01/2009 by deddynoer
Categories: LAIN-LAIN

Tokoh Kartun Donal Bebek ikut nimbrung dalam daftar nama virus komputer terbaru setelah sebelumnya muncul virus Doraemon, Naruto, dan kenshin, ciri khas dari virus ini memakai nama bulu (Donal) Bebek, dalam sebulan terakhir ini telah menyusup dalam ribuan komputer.

Virus Bulu Bebek dibuat menggunakan bahasa pemrograman Visual Basic dan terdeteksi sebagai VbWorm.QXE. Salah satu ciri khas virus ini adalah mengandung kata “Bulu (Donal) Bebek“.

Bulu Bebek menyembunyikan folder/subfolder pada flash disk dan membut file duplikat sesuai dengan nama folder/subfolder tersebut untuk mengelabui user. Untuk membersihkannya, simak langkah berikut ini:

1. Sebaiknya putuskan komputer yang akan dibersihkan dari jaringan (jika terhubung ke Local Are Network/LAN).
2. Disable “System Restore” untuk sementara selama proses pembersihan berlangsung (jika menggunakan Windows ME/XP).
3. Matikan proses virus yang sedang aktif di memori, untuk mematikan proses virus ini gunakan tools pengganti taks manager seperti procexp, kemudian matikan proses virus yang mempunyai icon “Folder”.
4. Repair registry Windows yang sudah diubah oleh virus. Untuk mempercepat proses tersebut salin script dibawah ini pada program notepad kemudian simpan dengan nama repair.inf. Jalankan file tersebut dengan cara:

* Klik kanan repair.inf
* Klik Install

[Version]
Signature=”$Chicago$”
Provider=Vaksincom Oyee

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=UnhookRegKey
DelReg=del

[UnhookRegKey]
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\batfile\shell\open\command,,,”””%1″” %*”
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\comfile\shell\open\command,,,”””%1″” %*”
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\exefile\shell\open\command,,,”””%1″” %*”
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\piffile\shell\open\command,,,”””%1″” %*”
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\regfile\shell\open\command,,,”regedit.exe “%1″”
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\scrfile\shell\open\command,,,”””%1″” %*”
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, Shell,0, “Explorer.exe”
HKLM, SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\SafeBoot, AlternateShell,0, “cmd.exe”
HKLM, SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\SafeBoot, AlternateShell,0, “cmd.exe”
HKLM, SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot, AlternateShell,0, “cmd.exe”
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\SuperHidden, UncheckedValue,0×00010001,1
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor, AutoRun,0,
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL, CheckedValue, 0×00010001,1
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL, DefaultValue, 0×00010001,2
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Command Processor, AutoRun,0,

[del]

HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableRegistryTools
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableTaskMgr
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NoFolderOptions
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NOFind
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NORun
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WinOldApp
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\PAYXX.exe
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, Shell
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\HideFileExt
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\ShowFullPath
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\ShowFullPathAddress
HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SuperHidden
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, NoFolderOptions
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableRegistryTools

5. Cari dan hapus file duplikat yang dibuat oleh virus. Untuk mempercepat proses pencarian sebaiknya gunakan fungsi “Search Windows” dengan terlebih dahulu menampilkan file yang disembunyikan.

Jika Folder Option belum muncul, sebaiknya LogOff komputer terlebih dahulu kemudian tampilkan file yang tersembunyi. Setelah file duplikat ditemukan, hapus file yang mempunyai ciri-ciri:

  • Menggunakan icon Folder
  • Ukuran file 53 KB
  • Ekstensi EXE
  • Type File “Application”

6. Tampilkan kembali file/folder pada Flash Disk yang sudah disembunyikan. Untuk menampilkan file yang disembunyikan, Anda dapat menggunakan bebarapa tools alternatif seperti Batch File Utility atau dengan menggunakan perintah ATTRIB.
Berikut cara menampilkan file/folder yang disembunyikan dengan menggunakan ATTRIB:

  • Klik “Start”
  • Klik “Run”
  • Ketik “CMD”, kemudian tekan tombol “Enter”
  • Pindahkan posisi kursor ke drive Flash Disk
  • Kemudian ketik perintah ATTRIB –s –h –r /s /d kemudian tekan tombol “enter”

7. Untuk pembersihan optimal dan mencegah infeksi ulang scan, dengan antivirus yang up-to-date dan sudah dapat mendeteksi virus ini.

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Posted 19/01/2009 by deddynoer
Categories: LAIN-LAIN, Tentang Blog, Tentang Free

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deddynoer: ALEXA RANK

Posted 19/01/2009 by deddynoer
Categories: Tentang Blog

Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

In this article, I’ll examine the importance of the Alexa Rank as it relates to site monetization while briefly discussing some of the weaknesses involved in using Alexa ranking as a reliable traffic measure for any website.

Lastly, I’ve also included an extensive list of twenty methods and strategies you can use to increase your Alexa Rank dramatically in the short and long run.

What is the Alexa Rank?

Put simply, the Alexa Rank is a ranking system which bases its ranking schema on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.

See Alexa’s definition of the Alexa Traffic Rank:

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.

The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)

Why would you want to increase your Alexa rank?

Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.

ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.

Problems with the Alexa Rank

Alexa ranking is heavily skewed towards websites which have a large webmaster/tech audience. This is because webmasters or web savvy audiences are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than websites whose visitors are unaware of Alexa.

As such, many have indicated that Alexa is a vastly inaccurate method of measuring a website’s reach, traffic and potential. I don’t disagree.

Alexa is a silly way to measure web traffic but unfortunately, in an imperfect world Alexa is still heavily used by webmasters and ad networks when measuring the value of advertising on your website.

I understand the defects of Alexa’s ranking system and I’m not going to go into more detail about it here. What’s primarily important to me is that the Alexa Rank has become a central element in site monetization strategies.

I’m not concerned with the utility and value of Alexa but it’s perceived importance in the eyes of potential advertisers.

How do I get started with Alexa?

There are two easy ways to start using Alexa. If you are using Internet Explorer, visit this page and download the Alexa Toolbar. If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension which displays the Alexa Rank, Google PageRank as well as other useful features.

I highly recommend that you use Firefox and SearchStatus instead of Alexa toolbar, which I find to be more bulky and less useful.

Ways to Increase your Alexa Rank

Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.

Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, which I have duly referenced at the end of this post.

Do these tips work? According to some, yes they definitely do work. But do note that most of them require active effort of some sort and hence, they will work as long as long as you are consistently performing specific actions.

To increase your Alexa rank in the long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank.

Great link-worthy content will leads to an natural increase in site traffic and is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank.

It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of any of the following tips below.

  1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
  2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
  3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.
  4. Work in an Office or own a company? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers. Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic or different IPs are used.
  5. Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.
  6. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.
  7. Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.
  8. Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
  9. Post in Asian social networking websites or forums. Some webmasters have suggested that East Asian web users are big Alexa toolbar fans, judging by the presence of several Asia-based websites in the Alexa Top 500. I suggest trying this only if you have the time or capacity to do so.
  10. Create a webmaster tools section on your website. This is a magnet for webmasters who will often revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Aaron Wall’s webpage on SEOTools is a very good example.
  11. Get Dugg or Stumbled. This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop link worthy material.
  12. Use PayperClick Campaigns. Buying advertisements on search engines such as Google or Exact Seek will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is highly relevant to webmasters.
  13. Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.
  14. Optimize your popular posts. Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs.
  15. Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites. A prominent and well displayed ad will drive lots of webmaster traffic to your website, which can significantly boost your rank.
  16. Hire forum posters to pimp your website. Either buy signatures in webmaster forums or promote specific articles or material in your website on a regular basis. You can easily find posters for hire in Digital Point and other webmaster forums.
  17. Pay Cybercafe owners to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for all their computers. This might be difficult to arrange and isn’t really a viable solution for most. I’m keeping this one in because some have suggested that it does work.
  18. Use MySpace . This is a little shady so I don’t recommended it unless you’re really interested in artificially inflating your Alexa Rank. Use visually attractive pictures or banners and link them to your redirected Alexa URL. This will be most effective if your website has content that is actually relevant to the MySpace Crowd.
  19. Try Alexa auto-surfs. Do they work? Maybe for brand new sites. I think they are mostly suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads like Adsense. They aren’t also long term solutions to improving your Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution.

Have A Nice Try…