Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Yesterday I talked about how I was trying some new methods for pushing aff sales and seeing a good CTR, which I hoped meant conversions were around the corner? I just had my first conversion, and I’m excited.
The first change I made was to create a banner to promote one of my affiliate shops (that’s the one that got the sale) and put it in an eye-catching spot on one ...
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
I don’t know what the problem is, but this summer my subdomains keep winking out and then coming back online. It happens on more than one host: they’ll be working fine, then suddenly I get “cannot find server” errors for one subdomain or another on a site that’s otherwise working fine.
This is really hitting Project Mai Tai right now – all its affiliate ads are cloaked through subdomains, and suddenly ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
My site, Project Mai Tai, just got this, like, glowing and detailed review with lots of juicy deep links from a user at Associated Content. Which is a PR 6 site.
I can’t find anything wrong with this, and yet it just feels too good to be true. It’s a perfect, perfect review – the kind you pay $50 for.
But they mention that they saw an ad for Mai ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Yes! Google finally indexed Project Mai Tai with over 1,000 pages and 4 inbound links.
It’s kinda too bad that puts an end to our “What can you do without Google” study. Not that I’m complaining!
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Project Mai Tai is still progressing about like similar sites I’ve had that weren’t banned by Google. Mai Tai has attracted a link or two from a fairly high-traffic site in its niche, and that seems to be bringing in most of the visitors. Last month, the daily visitors were between about 15 and 30, with a couple of peaks into the 60′s. This month, it’s mostly ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Yesterday I reported that I’d done something I hoped would significantly boost Mai Tai’s traffic. While I was at it, I also dugg one of my posts.
The thing I did to significantly boost traffic hasn’t come through yet – we’ll see if it does. The Digg effect, however, brought me 79 new visitors so far. That’s not bad considering the post only got 3 Diggs altogether. ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
For those of you just tuning in, I’ve decided to make Project Mai Tai (domain banned from Google) into an experiment: how far can a decent site get without Google?
I’ve got a couple of fairly regular commenters now. I’ve had a couple of recent story tips in emails. My bookmark rate is around 50%, which I hope means the site is “sticky” for those who find it. I’ve got two ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
After months of speculation, I reported last week that yes, the reason my Project Mai Tai domain is banned from Google is that it used to be owned by someone else. That left me with two choices: wait – perhaps more than a year – and hope it gets indexed, or port the pages to a new domain and start over.
And then I had another idea, and so did ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
I was right. Project Mai Tai’s problems are caused by the fact that the domain was owned before I had it. Someone owned it until 2004, I think. Then it just lapsed, and I bought it in 2006. From archive.org, it didn’t look like the old owner did anything that would trigger Google penalties. And the old site was still indexed when I started my ...
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
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 numbers of pages that it couldn’t find. When I checked their URL’s I had ...
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