Update on 12th June: Alexa Claiming has been retired in May 2016
If you are looking for “how to claim a website in Alexa for free“, unfortunately my friend, you can’t do it free anymore. Alexa has been retired from claiming!
Old Process:
Today I tried to claim my website in alexa. So I simply visited alexa.com and in search box I wrote SEO-Service-Provider.Org and hit enter button to see what’s the status of my website in alexa. My company is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh and I was hoping to see my website would be ranked for Bangladesh. But surprisingly it is ranked for India! So it is mandatory to claim my website in alexa for free and fix the error. I immediately registered an account in alexa. After the email verification I logged into alexa with my email and password. Again I performed search for SEO-Service-Provider.org and I saw the following image:
Then I clicked on “Certify your site’s metrics” link and it was showing me to upgrade my plan:
Please note, I didn’t install any code on the pages of my website. So something seemed not right there. As a result, I was playing with the tabs and I stopped at the “My Dashboard” tab, hoping that I would claim my site through this. But again I was getting “View Plans and Pricing” message while trying to add my site, it was forcing me to upgrade.
Please note, earlier in Alexa, there was an INTRO “Free plan” package that a user could choose but there was no Free Plan option in Alexa anymore:
So I checked support center and performed a search with this query “claim my website“. Fortunately, at that time I was in right place. So in order to claim your website you need to go to this address: http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/claim
It seems Alexa indirectly forcing their users to upgrade their plan, hiding “claim your website” option under the “My Dashboard” or “Account Management” tabs. It would be lot easier for first time users to claim their website if it’s clearly visible under “My Dashboard” or “Account Management” tabs.
Anyway, here is the total process in brief to claim your website for free in Alexa:
1. Go to Alexa.com
2. Register an Account
3. After verifying your account please log in to your account. You can also login to alexa with your Facebook account details.
4. Now visit this address: http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/claim
5. Enter your website URL and hit “continue” button.
6. On the next page you will see the following image:
7. Choose either 1 or 2 in order to claim your website for free.
8. If you click on Method 1, you will have the option to download a file to your computer . Please download that file. After that upload the same file to your website’s root directory and click “Verify the file on your site” in 2nd step.
9. Congratulation! Your site is successfully claimed in Alexa.
If you prefer Method 2 (if you don’t prefer Method 1), then click on Method 2 on step 7. You will see a meta tag verification code that you need to place on thesection of your homepage HTML. After that, click on “Verify my ID” button.
Congratulation! Your site is successfully claimed in Alexa.
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About Ekhlas Uddin Jewel
Ekhlas Uddin Jewel is Google Adwords certified individual & SEO, SEM, SMM specialist from Bangladesh. He is the founder of SEO-Service-Provider.Org. For large SEO/Adwords project(s), please feel free to contact him.
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Hi Ekhlas – this was a really useful post. Thanks alot for giving us the direct link. Alexa hide the free account well! By the way, for people who aren’t sure where the header html or root directory is, they can paste the AlexaID into the YoastSEO plugin “Webmaster Tools” field. Much easier.
Hi MrsP,
Thanks for the comment and congratulation on your first comment. I am glad to hear that you have found our post useful. About YoastSEO, I agree with you. But Yoast SEO plugin is not supported for many platforms (supported for wordpress, magento, what else? not sure). As a result we just discussed about importing the code in Homepage HTML. 🙂
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Thanks and good luck.
It’s actually a great and useful piece of information. I am satisfied that you shared this useful info with us. Please keep us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for your comment Hesby and glad that you like my post. I am always trying to keep my contents up to date. If you find any blog posts with back dated information please let me know. I will make the change.
Now its Not working its has been romoved by aleXa in may 2016
Thanks a lot Kohli! I was not aware of that announcement. I updated my article. Thanks again!
Hi, thanks for the info, But unfortunately after login, and when i hit the link which you are given (www.alexa.com/siteowners/claim) , its automatically redirect the link at – https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/219135887 . How can add your site in this situation ?
waiting for your reply!
Yes, people can’t claim their site on Alexa for free. I have updated my post first paragraph. Please check it out.
We have tried but now in 2016. alexa must be changed some plane and no more free claime site to Alexa. Do you have a solution?
Unfortunately, we don’t have a solution… It seems our website’s Alexa ranking is increasing rapidly after they have rolled out this announcement which is of course not good for us too.
I also tried many times but failed, there is no free subscription anymore ….. 🙁
Yes, it’s very unfortunate; they want to earn some money now!
This is my first time pay a visit at here and i am in fact pleasant to read all at alone place.
Unfortunatly Alexa is one of the most reliable rank site but not updated in real time, sometimes take months to take real statistics.