Yesterday, I submitted one of Project Mai Tai’s articles to a couple of social bookmarking sites. That brought in a decent little chunk of visitors. No one’s taking the link bait yet, but a couple of people left good comments and a few more left spam.
Which means I’m getting comment spam before I’ve [...]

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I’ve never really paid attention to the no-follow debate since those tags became standard on WordPress.  Today, this site got rejected by PayPerPost for having no-follow tags, and that forced me to rethink.
I still don’t understand quite what the deal is, but it seems to me that:

No-follow goes against the sense of community and cooperation [...]

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I wrote Technorati last week to find out why their blog directory claims the B-2 Bomber blog doesn’t exist, even though it ranks quite decently overall on their service. Got no response. Of course, their phone line doesn’t answer, either, and the voice mail message says they won’t respond to phone messages for [...]

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Here’s another installment on my continuing attempt to launch a site in less than six months, and have serious revenue coming in before I die.
My new site got ranked on Alexa today. It’s not as low a rating as I would have expected: it’s in the 1.2 millions, which is higher [...]

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I’ve started a new site, and decided to chronicle my attempts to launch it and get some revenue out of it.  Knowing me, this could be a long process. 
I’ve nicknamed the site Project Mai Tai, but just to be clear, that name has nothing to do with anything.  Well, I might need a [...]

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The site I nickname the B-2 Bomber did well in Alexa when it first launched. Then it plummeted to something like 1.9 million and stayed there for a long time, even though the traffic was growing steadily every month. Now, suddenly today it’s taken a huge leap back into the six-digits, which comes [...]

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I can’t say I’m surprised.  The US passed the law against online gambling and betting over the weekend.  And with it remaining legal in other parts of the world, how confusing is that going to be for law enforcement, not to mention affiliates and operators.

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The bad news is, I only made $90+ this month.  It was purely from sales of ad space, and maybe a few pennies of CPC on my unsold AdBrite spots on other sites.  No aff sales at all.
But it’s been a busy month offline as well as on.  Online, I’ve been building a new site [...]

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