Happy New Year And Welcome To 2010
Happy New Year and Welcome To 2010. This post is a quick recap of our 2009 and to extend our gratitude to some of the great people that we have met along the way.
FMS SEO originally started out as Foxley Marketing Solutions @ www.foxleymarketingsolutions.com and we moved to FMS SEO with the new domain www.fmsseo.com (just over 2 months ago).
The transition meant that we lost our Page Rank of 3, it went down to 0, or more accurately known as n/a.
We also lost quite a few of our strong search engine placements for highly targeted keyword phrases, going from being ranked 1st in Google to being on page 10 and beyond.
Another affect of the move was our Alexa rank went back up to around the 8,000,000.
As of today, our Alexa traffic rank is 200,818 and our Page Rank is a nice 4 (not bad for two months worth of work*).
Our regular visitors (under 50% of our visitors) will no doubt have noticed that we have changed our look (again). We hope you like the look as we will be staying with this one for some time to come now (I was out voted on the colour scheme 
)
A Highlight Of The Year Was…
Markteing Profs is one of the sites we regularly visit and it was a real honour to see one of our articles mentioned by them.
Marketing Profs wrote D0nt Do Thi.s where our article Are You Writing Email Marketing Messages That Suck? was mentioned.
Sharing The Love
There are a few people that Kelly and I would like to personally thank and what better way than to link out to one of their articles. Please take the time to visit each site and, if you like what you read, leave a comment (this is an unordered list with everyone deserving an equal measure of thanks).
Brian @ BlogEngage.com
Extreme John @ ExtremeJohn.com
Will @ WhatAWebsite.org
Damon Day @ DamonDay.com
Hesham @ Zebida.com
Dennis Edell @ DirectSalesWebMarketing.com
Keith @ HotBlogTips.com
Kristi (Kikolani) @ Kikolani.com
Gordon @ Blog.Knowledge-Reactor.com
Ms Ileane @ Ileane.Wordpress.com
Deepika @ CheckOutThis.cc
Don Power @ DonPower.me
James @ Moralde.com
Jimi Jones @ BlogOnlineBiz.com
DiTesco @ iBlogZone.com
Sire @ WassupBlog.com
Mitch @ ImJustSharing.com
Jason Brooks @ BrooksDigitalMarketing.co.uk
Jeevan @ TechPupil.com
Jared Little @ MoneyCult.com
Mark Bell @ Eclectica.co.uk
Alison Moore Smith @ Win-With-1.com
Rajesh @ TechCats.net
Brad Harmon @ BradleyAHarmon.com
James Parker @ CyberDesignz.com
Ms. Freeman @ FreemanLegacyLCC.com
Rose DesRochers @ RoseDesRochers.com
Robert Bravery @ IntegralWebSolutions.co.za
Dan Kelly @ TycoonBlogger.com
Lee Ka Hoong @ MyBlog2Day.com
If we have missed anyone then please accept our apologies as this is not intentional.
Guest Blogging
As we enter into 2010 we are looking to allow guest blogging on our site.
For those who have already sent us an email to enquiry about guest blogging here please come back in the next few days as Kelly is putting together a post explaining everything.
We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
2010
We are going to start adding ‘how to’ videos in the near future so be on the look out for those.
Have a great 2010.
Warmest regards,
Karl and Kelly-Anne
P.s. Here are our Twitter links: @fmsseo @karlfoxley @kellyfoxley
*Page Rank is something that we do not spend much time focusing on but it sure feels good to at least be ranked.
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.-= Extreme John´s amazing last blog ..Seminole Florida Free Tanning Event =-.
Karl,
Thanks for including me in your list. I really appreciate it! Best wishes for a great 2010.
Brad
.-= Brad Harmon´s amazing last blog ..How SMART are Your New Year’s Resolutions? =-.
Thank you Brad.
Have a great 2010.
Karl
Nice list of bloggers Karl. Your new domain surely is easier to remember as its much much shorter than the last one.
.-= ZXT´s amazing last blog ..Blog Monthly Stats =-.
Thanks ZXT. It also features one of our keywords which is always a bonus.
I see you’ve already added it, that’s great! Your new design looks very luxurious. At my colorimetry classes I’ve learned that purple and black along with gold are THE colors to use if you want your product to reflect luxury and quality from a psychological aspect. Did you guys make it yourselves?
.-= Gordon´s amazing last blog ..6 Most Successful Types Of Headlines =-.
Very kind of you to link to my blog guys. I will continue to write for many more years hopefully. This list is great, I’ve found out about some bloggers I haven’t before and I wish I would have. Do you plan to install CommentLuv on this blog anytime in the future?
You’re welcome Gordon. We had CommentLuv installed but since the transition to a new look the plugin stopped working. We will hopefully have it back up and running in the very near future.
Karl
Hi Karl,
All the very best to you & Kelly, I’m sure it’s going to be an interesting year – with a lot of visits ( starting right now) to many of the sites that you mention above. ( great to be on that list by the way – thanks!)
Very much like the new look here- it’s positive!
Cheers
Will
All the best for 2010 for you Will.
I look forward to seeing what future sites your feature on WhatAWebsite.
Warmest regards,
Karl
Thank you very much for the link luv, it is greatly appreciated. I wish the best of luck to you in the New Year and may we all be prosperous and joyous.
Thank you Ms Freeman and the link love is well deserved. Have a great 2010.
@Ching Ya
Thank you and a Happy 2010 to you.
Best wishes,
Kelly-Anne
Happy 2010 and it’s great that you share the link love with these wonderful people, well deserved. ^^ Congrats on making a good progress in ranking and I’m sure you’re going to do a lot better this year. Keep up the good work. See you around.
@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
No problem whatsoever, you keep the great content coming and I’ll keep adding my 2cents (no matter what anyone says) LOL.
Commentluv down for the count?
Hey you guys, thanks so much for including me, it’s quite an honor, not to mention shock!
A great new year to you both and keep it up my friends!
Thank you Dennis for being such an active commenter on our site, it’s really appreciated.
Karl (and Kelly).
Thank you Chandan, Rajesh, Deepika and James.
Congrats for getting back your page rank again and wish you a warm New Year. Hope you can boost your blogging performance in the new year.
First i wish happy new year 2010 to you and your family Karl…
Thanks for mentioning about guest blogging….
You have designed your blog very well… I like this theme very much…. You will reach all your targets soon friend…
Thanks for adding my blog in the above list…
I hope it’s not too late to greet you Karl and Kelly-Anne a happy new year. I was thrilled to see my blog included in this list. And seeing that Mitch is about to throw a tantrum on noting that Sire is on top of him, I can’t help but make somersaults after checking out that I’m a whole 2 leaps above both of them. LOL!
Thanks Karl and I wish you the best for 2010.
PS. PR4 in 2 months. Whew, how do you guys do it?
Hope you’ll get back to your position in terms of PR and all very soon. Thanks for the sharing the love.
Hi,
Thank you Karl for the link love.
The up and down is quite natural and I am sure your website will have pretty good PR and placement in the next update. This happened to one of my website too in the last update but in the recent update everything got fine.
The new theme is quite attractive and elegant. I like it.
- J.
Wow, what a great list, and I’m proud to be associated with all those folks. Course, you have Sire on top of me, which will please him to no end since that’s the only way he’ll be on top of me.
Congrats to the new update, and I wish you a wonderful 2010!
Thanks so much Mitch. I can always bump him down a few places (when he isn’t looking) lol.
Have a great 2010 and I look forward to catching up with your blog posts over the next few days.
Karl
Nice job! I love link love
Hi Ben,
Thanks for dropping in, how was your trip?
heck Karl, it would be pretty boring if I didn’t interact with other bloggers, and if I left a comment it just means you guys wrote something worth commenting on.
Absolutely. I think I’ve seen you in the comment section on the majority of the sites I visit Sire and it is great that you always add value, which is the, in my opinion at least, the way blog commenting should be.
Congratulations. It just goes to show what a bit of hard work can do. Here’s hoping that 2010 proves to be even better for you.
Oh, and thanks for the link luv. I’m not sure what I did but whatever it was I’m glad you got something out of it.
Hey Sire,
The thanks is for taking the time to comment a few times on our site and for keeping us interested with the content you share on your site.
Have a great 2010.
Karl
Thank you all. The feedback we have received is greatly appreciated.
We hope to be sharing even better content for 2010 and we look forward to networking with you all in the future.
Karl and Kelly-Anne, thank you so much for the linky love. I was shocked to see my name listed. Very appreciated. All the best to you both in 2010. Feel free to follow me on Twitter @bloggertalk.
Thanks for the mention, Karl and Kelly-Anne. What a nice New Year’s gift!
Frankly, I find the Google game tiring. Be good little bloggers and we’ll reward you. This makes the season ripe for competitors. Which is a good thing, except that I hate Microsnot so much that I can’t bring myself to look at Bing. (For the same reasons Googles power concerns me.)
Good on you for your upped PR, though. Keep up the great work.
Karl and Kelly, I am honored to be on this list. There are some intense blogs listed and I read most of them, so thank you very much. As you know I love your site, and continue to learn every post that comes out.
Keep up the great work and thanks again!
Karl and Kelly, Congratulations on a rebounding and landing on your feet. This is one of my favorite blogs (no matter how many times you change the look) that I’ve encountered since joining Blog Engage in November. I really appreciated that you included me on the list here. Thanks!
Best wishes to you both in 2010.
@Ileane