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I make anywhere from $300 to $800/month on http://pizzacodes.com. About 3 or 4 months ago I switched domain names to make it more memorable, and I dropped out of search results for everything but my site name. Traffic has increased pretty substantially from other sources over the past few months, so I'm back just over $600/month again.

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Hmm. Lovely concept, but when I put my address in, it says there are no results - mainly because it thinks my UK address is just between Tuvalu & Tokelau in the South Pacific (so technically, the results were correct - Papa John's are unlikely to deliver there).

Unfortunately it's US only right now. It appears to default to 'just between Tuvalu & Tokelau in the South Pacific' if no results are found - I'll fix that.

Thanks for the feedback.

On the East-to-West axis, it's probably defaulting there because it's the International Date Line. No idea how it's picking that spot on the North-to-South axis though.

Did you do a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one?

Yeah, the old domain was abiteofpizza.com. I did a 301 redirect to the new domain, and notified Google about the domain change in webmaster tools, but search traffic slowed down over the next week or two, eventually basically dropping off.

Google apparently updated their algorithm right around the same time, so it's possible I got hit by that for some reason (even thought I've never attempted to do any 'seo' whatsoever). I wondering if they consider the number of internal links on the site, or the number of pages / how often they update bad.

How do you make money? Some sort of affiliate deal?

Mostly AdSense. I get a small amount of money from affiliate links to Groupon also.

Haha good job! Interesting niche and decent site!

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