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Re:Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should ... by luke_s on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @06:53AM (#2704883)
Thanks for the feedback! But are you sure your not just seeing me as number 1, with your own personal google goggles? When I search from a new browser, with no cookies I actually appear down the bottom of the 1st page. At least here in Australia. Where are you located?

As for PR 4 - wow! When did that happen. Last time I checked it was a big fat 0. Guess google has updated their index.

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Re:Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should ... by toumhi on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @07:18AM (#2704941)
Ah yeah, could be. I'm currently in Vietnam. Through my VPN in UK you also show up as number 1. How can a website hosted in Australia shows up higher in Vietnam and UK than Australia? Except if competition for grafting tools is fierce down under, of course ;-)
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Re:Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should ... by Dramatize on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @11:09PM (#2708255)
Showing up #1 for me too :)

Where in Australia are you based?

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Re:Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should ... by luke_s on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @11:13PM (#2708267)
Melbourne.

Well, this certainly makes me re-think my strategy. Here I was thinking I was getting no hits, because I was down the bottom of the search results, while it turns out I am #1 across most of the world!

Unfortunately pageviews and conversions are still terrible. I just need to figure out what to do about it.

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Re:Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should ... by Dramatize on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @11:16PM (#2708280)
There was a refresh in Pagerank a few days ago.

Maybe turn the front page into a longer form sales pitch? How many sales are you doing?

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Re:Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should ... by luke_s on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @12:52AM (#2708446)
At the moment: not many sales at all. My last one was 3 weeks ago to the day! However its very seasonal - during winter in the northern hemisphere, I will get 1 or 2 a week.

Thanks for the suggestion on the front page.

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