Blog It Out Your Pie Hole

Plenty of people out there will tell you how to make money with a blog. Darren Rowse is apparently one of the best. John Chow is another guy making big money off blogging. A quick Google search reveals 47 pages of web pages (20 at a time) that want to tell you how to “make money blogging.” I’m not sure how many people have time to read each and every one of those 928 Google entries to learn how to make money with a blog, but I have a good idea how they read, and I’m sure that many of them will sell you a program to show you how to make money blogging for just $500 $400 $300 $197 $37.

In no particular order, this is your standard list of ways to make money blogging.

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For some time, I’ve been reading and using the Alexa redirect machine. Basically, if you use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blowitoutyourpiehole.com to link to this site, it will count to Alexa as a hit to add to your Alexa ranking. It’s a neat way of getting an Alexa hit if you don’t have any Alexa widgets on your site or get visited by a spider or someone who doesn’t have javascript turned on. Whether the ranking is accurate or not is not a matter for discussion here.

I just posted a link over at the new Blondeee Blog and used the Alexa redirect, and it’s now a big fat 404 error. Now if the Alexa redirect machine is just having a temporary down time, it shouldn’t affect much, assuming that the Google and Yahoo! engines don’t start wiping their databases of the pages.

If Alexa has turned this off permanently, it will seriously drop page rankings and incoming links across the globe. If anyone used this for their adsense target, bad things worldwide will happen.

I don’t see anything out in the blogosphere about this, so maybe it’s just a temporary outage or it’s just a load balancing server issue. Maybe, just maybe, blowitoutyourpiehole.com has a jump ahead on the rest.

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So I just checked my Alexa ranking. I had a little boost, up from 4,426,952 to 3,578,624, which is what by badge is now claiming. Right now, the toolbar is boasting an impressive 792,514. That’s up 3.6 Million in just a couple of weeks. I can’t say for certain what any one particular change was, but here is what I did.

I changed the site theme. Made it more aesthetically pleasing. It used to be a gawdawful orange, now, as you can see, it’s more crisp and it just looks better. I think that more people who have never been here could tell, through the universal ether, that the site is beautiful and they should come visit.
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So I previously wrote about boosting my Alexa Rating. Guess what. Caused problems to go into the wordpress control panel and change my blog’s URL to the Alexa Redirect page. The search function doesn’t work. We need to have the search function working, especially if people are going to be searching for the Viral Tags page.

For some reason, the search function that came with the template doesn’t seem to be working the way that I think it should be, so it’s not working anyway, but still. We’re going to be trying out some different templates around here, so watch as things get a little crazy.

The Google search function is working correctly now. I did see a plugin that bounces non-robot links through Alexa, but forgot where I found it. Anyway, I need to increase the page ranking, so I can have a higher ranking than the butt plug barn.

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As I write this, my Alexa ranking is 4,426,952, according to the Alexa tool bar. I tried to sign up for a reviewing site, where we review a site and get a couple of dollars for it. Our Alexa rank isn’t high enough for them. I found Dosh Dosh’s 20 quick ways to increase your Alexa rank. We’re going to increase our Alexa ranking, one way or another. I have installed the Alexa toolbar so I can check it each and every minute of my life. I’m not sure it will be quite an obsession, but it will be interesting to watch it grow. Hopefully.

I’ve also changed the site around a little. Previously, I had a square ad on the first three posts on the main page and “In the News” on the third one down. I’m sure you all noticed that. On a single post page, the ad was there and the “In The News” block was there for some reason. Anyway, I have taken the ads off of the posts on the front page, and now feature the Adsense Injector on non-front page postings. I also removed the Amazon context ads and the other ad network. I figure that since each ad network has a minimum payout, and I’ve been waiting 3 years since my last adsense payout of about $20, I figure I’d better keep up on the adsense network and finally get a payout.

I also went into the wordpress control panel and changed my blog url to http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blowitoutyourpiehole.com
so that every link goes through the alexa network. I have that link on my Viral Tags page, so hopefully it will get linked through from the Viral Tag Network, and from anyone stumbling here will click on one internal link and help boost the rank.

As we try some other things, we’ll report here how things progress. We also have the Alexa widget installed, but it’s showing a page ranking of 4,422,055 as of this writing. Strange. The Alexa page for Blow It Out Your Pie Hole also shows a very old picture, even though I have requested the robot to update the screen shot months ago. Strange.

Anyway, stay tuned as I try things, tweak things, and see what confusions or clarifications I can find.

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