SERPs and new records

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 in. But whatever! My latest genuine inbound from someone is definitely bringing a handful of visitors. Fortunately, those visitors are taking the action I’d hoped they would take when they got to the site: it’s not an action that directly makes me money, but it does effectively… write a lot of my content for me. Tell me that’s not an advantage for any blogger.

The B-2 Bomber continues to break records this month with a daily unique count yesterday that far outstrips any previous days. I’m not quite sure why yesterday did so well. The site definitely has something in place that’s acting as linkbait – remember, this is not a site I SEO, it’s a very natural site about a topic I care about. But a lot of SEO overlaps with the word-spreading, community-sharing practices blogging is known for. But usually Fridays are a bit slow for the Bomber, so why did yesterday rock? I’ve gathered that a lot of the TV shows popular with the Bomber’s crowd didn’t have new episodes on last night. Plus, the weather’s cooling off, students are back in school – maybe people are staying in and surfing more.

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