Update: Mai Tai, Taffy & More
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 links. So, as always in this game, the question is: how to get it in front of eyeballs. And I don’t have the answer.
I know one of the quickest ways to build inbounds and PR is not to submit a site to directories, but to put a directory on that site. I suppose I could do that, and then stop accepting free submissions once I have enough inbounds to get it launched. I’ll have to think about this – it literally just occurred to me.
Project Taffy – the established site I’m converting from a reprint articles blog to an original content blog, got accepted into PayPerPost, and is now making money for me that way. I’m still doing PPP posts here when I find something that’s relevant in the opps (which does happen), but Taffy is not as tightly focused, so I can write about more topics there.
This site is now 58,060 on Alexa, and is featured on their Affiliate Programs/Weblogs page along with some very good company. As far off as I think Alexa’s numbers are on many sites, I’m going to be happy about this anyway. 
Project B-2 Bomber is still steadily growing. I really want to hit 10,000 uniques per month by the end of this year, and it looks like I’m going to fall short of that by 1,000 to 1,500 (yeah, I’m totally projecting a guesstimate for December here). But there is a possibility a forum currently private on that site will become public soon, and that could cause a leap in traffic.
Related posts:- Update
- Yahoo update
- Project Mai Tai Update – over 100 uniques per day
- AdWords and Invalid Clicks… Hmm!
- Once again, full feeds work better
Categories: Blogging | 
Tags: Project B-2 Bomber, Project Mai Tai | 
4 Comments »
November 15th, 2006 at 9:12 am
To get a site going and indexed the easiest way is to link from some of your existing sites even if non relevant. but in that same process try to build links from directory submission and link exchange but do three way links.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:28 am
What do you mean by three-way links?
November 26th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Hey, “Sapphire”?!, your Blog is not featured at Alexas Directory.
First: It is not Alexa’s Directory, it is the Dmoz or Open Directory Project Directory, short ODP.
Second: It’s sorted by Name
Third: You can still be happy that you got added to that category, most sites are not
Just FYI. So sorry for the bad news and “you are welcome” for the good one.
Cheers,
Carsten
November 26th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
I never said it was Alexa’s “directory”; I said it was their page. And it is. And yes, it’s obviously a mirror of the DMOZ, but it’s a page within Alexa’s domain, and it’s added exposure.