I developed a passion for a subject over the holidays and started a blog about it, which I’ll call Project C here. At this point, I’m not expecting to make much money on it: it’s more a place to talk about something I care about then an attempt to make money online. Then [...]

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Remember the other day when I said I called Technorati about why Project B-2- Bomber has been left out of the blog directory?  I’m pleased to say that they took immediate action, found what was going wrong with the pinging and fixed it.  The site is now included exactly as it should be, and all [...]

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A couple of things have been bugging me for a while, and I’ve followed all the instructions to fix them, and it never works.  Today I decided to forget all that: I’m calling people direct!
Today I called Technorati.  Project B-2 Bomber ranks around 54,000 on their system, but it has never been put into their [...]

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PayPerPost has announced its new terms of service today.  There are two big changes you should be aware of:

You have to disclose on your blogs that you have paid posts.  You can do this on each paid post, or on a sitewide disclosure notice.  As far as I can tell, you’re not required to mention [...]

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I noticed this month that Project Mai Tai got more referral link spam - mostly porn - than any site I’ve ever started.  By referral link spam, I mean those sites that show up in your AwStats as having referred one visitor to you - and when you click to see who they are, it’s [...]

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My research into whether or not a missing robots.txt file could really be the cause of Google shunning Project Mai Tai led me to a discovery: my robots.txt files suck.  Wayback machine was no longer archiving any of them because of something in the file - I’m not sure what, but I copied the robots.txt [...]

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Okay, I’m wondering if any of you might have some ideas on this.  My newest site, Project Mai Tai, was indexed by Yahoo and MSN within days of its launch three months ago.  Google has yet to index one page, even though the bots come by every day.  I did forget to include my robots.txt [...]

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I’m an idiot. Google continues not to index my relatively new site, Project Mai Tai. Possible reason? I forgot to create a robots.txt file for it! D’oh!
I’ve heard Google will bounce a site for not having that. If that’s what’s been keeping me out, I’m happy to say the Google [...]

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I’ve crossed the $100 threshold for TextLink ads monthly earnings.  I’m sure a lot of people are doing much better than that, but a few months ago I was lucky to get $30.  I’m hoping to increase that to $300 within 6 months.  I have no idea how: I’m not sure if I need more [...]

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I finished November with a record $327.  That’s from ad sales, aff sales, PayPerPost, ReviewMe and featured link purchases on one of my directories.  My goal of the moment is to make $300 per month, so I’m thrilled.  And most of this was actually cash in hand, or will be in a couple of days.
Equally [...]

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