My Project Mai Tai is now the proud owner of the #12 spot on MSN’s live search for a search term that we’re projecting over 3 people will search in the next decade! To celebrate this momentous milestone, I smiled briefly. I considered putting my fist into the air and saying, “Yes!” but [...]

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Project Mai Tai has had over 600 visitors so far during its first full month, but that’s mostly coming from traffic exchanges (and social bookmarking, and three inbound links). Not great results yet, but again: the goal is not to launch this thing into the stratosphere 48 hours after the first post, but rather [...]

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Britopian’s Online Marketing Blog offers a refreshing perspective on article marketing. The gist of it is: writing a crap article and submitting it to hundreds of directories is not the way to go if you want your site to have any sort of longevity or credibility with users. Even worse is when you [...]

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Project Mai Tai just got a new batch of visitors from Stumbleupon. I had actually thought about putting it on there myself, but forgot. Looks like two people have recommended it so far, and already it’s sent a decent amount of visitors (for the piddling traffic I have so far).
Even better, MSN Live [...]

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Project MaiTai still isn’t getting indexed by Google. MSN and Yahoo have each deigned to recognize a page or two from it, but Google’s playing hard to get. I’ve decided to give it a sidebar link from one of my well-indexed, fairly high pagerank sites, and see what that does. I have [...]

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Project Mai Tai has a page in Yahoo! and MSN now. It has a subdomain which is still not in any of the SERPs, but is outranking the main domain on Alexa - which just proves Alexa’s on crack, because the subdomain has had 7 visitors so far this month, and not one link [...]

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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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I came across an interesting article at SEORoundtable about Google devaluing paid links.  It sounds like Adam Laznik is saying Google only devalues paid links if they’re bought for the purpose of gaining pagerank.  Which would be fair and reasonable, if Google had a way of knowing whether it was the pagerank or the traffic [...]

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I had several thousand directory submissions to go through the other day, between two directories I maintain. Instead of using the directory software interface for reviewing and approving them, I’ve started going straight into the database where I can see enough info to delete an awful lot of them on site.
I can also see [...]

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