Foximus Internet Business Blog

If you’ve recently started a site and have been trying desperately to get a page rank, and no matter what you do there seems to be no change in your rating of zero, you know there has even been a page rank update and still nothing has happened! You may be asking “Why the hell can’t I get a page rank? Am I doing it all wrong?”. The answer is that you could be doing everything right and still not be seeing any results. Do not get frustrated, you are probably stuck in the google sandbox.

How did you get there? One reason that people end up there is because their site is new. Another reason might be that they have obtained a large amount of backlinks in a short period of time. This could raise a red flag to google that they are purchasing links or obtaining them in some other unnatural way.

How long will I be stuck in the Google sandbox?
It is said that those who become stuck in the sandbox will never come our alive…just kidding! You will probably be stuck there for about 6-8 months so it may take some time before you see the results of your optimizing and linking efforts. Unfortunatly all you can do is wait. This means that you should not rely solely on google for your traffic, especially in the beginning.

Here are some alternative methods for increasing traffic to your site in the mean time:

Pay per click - sites where you can bid on each click and visit to your site. The payments can range from a few cents to a few dollars per click depending on the competition.

Other search engines - Focus on alternative search engines like Yahoo, or MSN that don’t have a sandbox for you to get stuck in.

*UPDATE*
Get links from high quality sites - Our readers suggest that getting back links from high quality websites with high PR can help pull you out of that sandbox faster.

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Or was it tagged me? It doesn’t really matter does it? But now that I have been touched/tagged I get to write about my favorite thing; me! OK, lets give this one a shot shall we?

Basically this is a ‘get to know the people behind the blog’ post meme/trade/train thing. We all get a chance to let people know who we are, what we do and what we look like. I honestly like to know what the bloggers I am reading look like. Not sure why, maybe it just makes it more personal. Anyway, lets get started.

I guess I will start with a picture. It is a little old but basically it is still what I look like. The only difference is that I no longer smoke.

Fantastic right? Now a little about me. I am in my twenties, and I work in marketing. I also do web design and IT support. I get bored easily so it is nice to be able to do so many things.

I like almost all music, don’t watch much TV besides cartoons and The Office. Again, I get bored during commercials and go do other things.

I am a very clean person, both in body and my surroundings. Cleaning calms me for some reason. I am a good cook, actually I am a great cook and I love to do it. I also like doing anything outdoors, just not for extended periods of time. Stuff like fishing or hiking. Camping is alright, but going days without a shower or connection for my laptop is just silly.

I am a jack of all trades, and just a big kid. I love playing videogames and having watergun fights. I have no intention of growing up and being boring. I also have no idea what I want to do with my life and I am fine with that. Possibly Princess of Canada or a wet t-shirt contest judge.

My current goal is find a way to make a living on-line without resorting to porn. It would be so nice to be able to work from wherever I was, at least until I got bored of it and became a fireman or something.

So, now the instructions for you!

1st thing to do:
Post a short paragraph or series of photos of yourself showing the face behind your blog. If you already show a photo on your blog, then make your post more interesting by choosing a photo that’s not currently online.

2nd thing:
Include links to others that have participated. Here are the ones that have participated so far:

Gayla at Mom Gadget
Char at Essential Keystrokes
Paul at Reflections
Rob at 2Dolphins
Zep at The In-Sect
Ingo at Stixster
Stevie at Lost In Cyberspace
The Paper Bull at (oddly enough) The Paper Bull
Lisa Sabin-Wilson at Just A Girl In The World
Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com
Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home
Dennis Bjørn Petersen at Petersen Inc.
Randa Clay at Randa Clay Design
Drew McLellan at The Marketing Minute
Becky McCray at Small Biz Survival
Phil Gerbyshak at Make it Great!
Steve Woodruff at StickyFigure
Dave Olson at Live the GREAT life that you desire
Greg at Become a Remote Control SEO
Ariane Benefit at Neat Living Blog
Genesis at the At Home Mom Blog
Armen at iFFECT.NET
Mihaela Lica at Online Public Relations
Tara at Graphic Design Blog
Doris Chua at Home Office Women
Edward Mills at Evolving Times
Tony D. Clark at Success from the Nest
Jonathan-C Phillips at SmartWealthyRich
Karen at A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Lisa Gates at intrinsic life design
Rammel Firdaus at rammelfirdaus.com
Carol at Pentimento
Adam Kayce at Monk at Work
Thomas at Technical Blogger
Tammy Lenski at I Can’t Say That!
Chris Brown at Branding & Marketing
Rory Sullivan at Hamelife
Derek Wong at Going The Wong Way
Embuck at embuck.com
Ms. Q at QMusings
Shelly Tucker at This Eclectic Life
Steve at Ramblings from the Marginalized
Troy Worman at on!blog
Lilith at Lilith’s Owl Nest
Revov at REVO-OVER
Karin at Stop/Start
Roberta Ferguson at robertaferguson.com

A link back to this post is much appreciated, to help create a more personal community!

Third thing to do:
Tag as many others as you like in your post to spread the meme.

Last, but not least:
If you link back to me here and send an email I’ll be sure to include links back to you.

Now, I am tagging Ed, Jon, Michael and Ms Danielle

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Not that type of train, get your minds out of the gutter… Perhaps the title is a little misleading… Anyway, this is another viral/link/SEO train type thing. I found this one over on Ms Danielles site. The instructions are the same as most of the other trains that have run through here. Just cut and paste, add some new people and let the link love spread.

This is supposed to help your RSS readership as well as maybe boost your technorati ranking so it’s got to be good right?

***Start Copying Here:***

Here are the rules:

1) If you don’t have a bloglines account signup for one, if you do have a bloglines account sign in to your account!

2) Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the Bloglines list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.

3) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can be accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.

4) Take “My New List” and move them into the “The Original List”.

5) Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Bloglines List to the “My New List” section. Remember to also add the “List the Site link next to your new blogs (i.e. http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theblogurl.com/feed)

6) Add Everyone on this list to your Bloglines List by clicking on “List the Site.” Those who want good kharma will list you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of readers from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

My New List

Jane May - List the Site
Nathan Drach - List the Site
Jon Waraas - List the Site
Roberta Ferguson - List the Site

The Original List

Foximus - List the Site
KellyCho - List the Site
DerekSemmler - List the Site
CashForComments - List the Site
Nice4Rice - List the Site
Ms. Danielle - List the Site
Search Engine Marketing - List the Site
Mr. Gary Lee - List the Site
Dosh Dosh - List the Site
David Culpepper - List the Site
Darin Carter - List the Site
Derrich - List the Site
Big Rayvin - List the Site
Jon Lee - List the Site
pyxlb0mb - List the Site
Samanathon - List the Site
John Chow - List the Site
IdiotBrain - List the Site

***End Copying Here***

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At least according to Avast it is. I thought I would write a post on Alexa and their toolbar for everyone that has not tried it yet. As you may or may not be aware, a lot of companies use your alexa rating to decide how much advertising on your site or blog is worth.

I figured that I could download it and give the fox a tiny boost while I am working on it, as well as all the other blogs I visit on a daily basis. But I have been denied.

I tried everything to get around it, but my antivirus refuses to let me play with it. I turned it off, installed it, but when I turned it back on it slapped my hand and said ‘No!’. Has anyone else had trouble installing it and maybe found a way to get it installed? My google, stumbleupon and del.icio.us toolbars all installed fine.

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In our never ending quest to drive more traffic to this site, or at least experiment with them we would like to bring your attention to Jon Lee’s post on updating your ping list.

When I first installed wordpress I looked into updating the default list but like so many other things I did not write it down at the time and it got lost the sea of mis-firing grey matter that is my brain.

Now that I have been reminded, Jon has done the work for us and created a nice list to get us all started. He goes into a little more detail and there is a disscussion on the good and bad of pinging all these places so make sure you check that out as well.

Anyway, here is the list. You can add it into wordpress by going to ‘options’ and then to ‘write’.

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogoole.com/ping
http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://godesigngroup.com
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed
http://imblogs.net/ping
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://ping.wordblog.de
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://weblogues.com/RPC
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php
http://www.godesigngroup.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://www.imblogs.net/ping
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

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