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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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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Project Mai Tai is still being ignored completely by Google.  But it just got a new sidebar link from a Blogger blog that’s not run by anyone I know.  So is it sticky?  Well, a handful of people seem to think so, which means maybe if enough people saw it, it would start to build [...]

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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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Time for a general update/assessment.
Project Mai Tai is still out with Google, in with Yahoo and MSN LiveSearch.  Not that it’s actually had any search traffic.  But the bookmark rate is up, and Alexa puts it in the 300,000’s.  Which, considering I have older and better sites doing worse is… um, whatever.  ;)  The point [...]

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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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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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