For one week:
Site 1 was at 11,765,971 and today it is at 2,876,029.
Site 2 was at 1,795,926 and today is at 1,317,451.

These tips are fairly simple and only took around 2 hours of my time. So its not alot of
work if you want to get a higher Alexa Ranking.

This seems to be a big thing sweeping the web world. So i though i would investigate on how to boost your rankings. So far a few things that have worked for me so far, I’m still testing it on a few sites to see how well these methods work.

1: Install the alexa tool bar and set your site as your homepage. have your friends do the same. (firefox and IE) http://alexa.com/site/download

2: Install the stumbleupon tool bar and review/rate your site or have friends rate it. (firefox and IE) http://www.stumbleupon.com/download.php

3: Add the Alexa button to your site. http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup

4: Use the Alexa outgoing link for your site. http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.yoursite.com

5: Use a autosurfer like autohits.dk (Do not use with google adsense or similar)

6: Blog about Alexa.

7: Create a Myspace account for your site. I havn’t tried this one yet.

For more like this check out my site. Blogging4cash.com 

I though I would share some of the plugins I use most often and I have good results with. Most the time it depends on which site I’m using so not all of them may be installed on this site.

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
Download

All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO.
Download

Adman
Plugin for inserting ads in to your post.
Download

AdServe 
AdServe is the advertising server for WordPress.
Download

Adsense-Deluxe
Another ad inserting plugin.
Download

Archives By Category
Creates a list of posts by category.
Download

Comment Relish
Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment.
Download

Dofollow
Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
Download

Fgallery
Image gallery plugin I use on a few of my design/photography sites.
Download

FeedBurner FeedSmith
This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed.
Download

Flexible upload
Resize picture at upload and make thumbnails. Pertty handy.
Download

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WP blog.
Download

GotBanner
Great plugin for adding those 125×125 ads. See my sidebar.
Download<

Hidden Affiliates Links
Hides affiliate links by wrapping them into a page that will redirect to the actual link.
Download

Leprakhauns Word Count
Adds a word count to your backend without having to submit the data.
Download

MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad
A new non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message,
a special note or other information right at the top of your blog.
Download

DownloadNiceAdmin
Give your WP admin area a nice clean look.
Download

Popularity Contest
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity.
Download

RSS Footer
Allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.
Download

ShareThis
Great Social Bookmarking plugin.
Download

Simple Tagging
A tagging plugin.
Download

Social Bookmark Creator
Create Social Bookmarks to your blog.
Download

Related Post
Returns a list of the related entries.
Download

Text Link Ads Plugin
Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use.
Download

Top Post Category
Create a page for your top post. (not working for 2.3).
Download

Ultimate Category Excluder
Easily exclude categories from your front page, feeds, and archives.
Download

WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
Download

WordPress.com Stats
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks.
Download

WP-PageNavi
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog.
Download

I will update this as I find new plugins that I find useful.
Updated. Jan. 27 2008

“Could not execute AJAX call, server didn’t return valid a XML”

Here is a fix for the spellcheck error in wordpress. I have included the file so you don’t need to worry with changing code or anything just download the zip file, extract it and replace the folder with the one already in the directory:
wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/”spellchecker”

This should take care of the problem on most servers. It has worked for mine. I can’t take credit for the fix. But I did alot of searching till I found a few solutions that worked so I though I would share this with anyone having problems with it.

spellchecker.zip