Last year, I set a goal for Project B-2 Bomber to get 10,000 visitors in a month (AwStats) by December 2006. It missed, but this month it gained a lot of traffic and crossed the 10k threshold yesterday evening. This is pretty exciting stuff, even though it’s not translating into money (yet). [...]

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Whew!  It took forever, but I’ve got this upgraded now.  Why does it take forever, you ask?  Because for some reason, with this host, it kicks me off the FTP every so often.  It says I have too many connections at once.  So I have to upload a folder or two at a time, and [...]

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This month, StumbleUpon decided to send over 400 visitors to my site that I call Project B-2 Bomber.  I have no idea why, since I can’t really figure out how StumbleUpon decides what URL’s to give you, but I have to say this is way better than any social bookmarking site I’ve gotten results from.
StumbleUpon [...]

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I’ve been going through the blog feeds I read, and today seems to be all about the no-follow tag, WikiPedia using it, and whether that’s going to help them prevent spam.
Let me answer the third question first: no.  I originally gave my reasoning why, but who cares?  No-follow has never stopped spammers.  Therefore, the answer [...]

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It looks like I’m finally going to have a chance to try BlogAds out.  Not on this site - traffic’s not high enough yet (yeah, that’s kind of sad).  Everytime I’ve emailed them directly to get an invite, they’ve told me it’s not worth bothering unless my site has 3,000 visitors a day or some [...]

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Google still refuses to index Project Mai Tai. Oh, somehow, I got one search via GoogleUK or something, but the site is not in the “google.com” index at all.
But it’s got a PR 4. So, yeah, that makes sense.
There’s been another slight change. All along, Google Webmaster Tools has been reporting huge [...]

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As I mentioned a few days ago, I decided to eliminate as much code as possible from above my content - from a bot’s point of view.  All of my sites now have the sidebars on the right, and I’ve removed all the plugin and CSS code I can from the top and put it [...]

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Every now and then I feel the need to ask myself: where am I, where am I going, and what am I doing to get there?
Where I am:
I can now depend on about $250/month to roll in just from ads.  That’s a far cry from my original goal of $15, posited back when I just [...]

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I’ve been toying with new themes off and on for a while. I think I’ll stay with this one.
From now on, no more sidebars on the left. That just makes the bot’s journey to your content longer.
I’ve also gotten rid of several ads that weren’t performing well anyway. Now it’s just /* [...]

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I’ve been operating lately on the principle that the less code there is between the start of your webpage to the actual content, the better. That way, the bots get to your content more quickly.
Since all of my sites are WordPress now, there’s not a ton of code at the top in a clean [...]

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