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Playing with the advertising widget


Creative Commons License photo credit: drinksmachine

I added something fun to the 125 x 125 pixel ads you see on the right sidebar. The 6th spot will rotate randomly. At least 5, but no more than 24 ads will be held in the ‘Random Queue’ to be selcted from.

I thought it would be entertaining (for me anyway) and economical (for advertisers).

If you are interested in advertising rates or blog stats, click here.

Problogger traffic spike

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My recent guest post on Problogger.net was good for traffic over all. The graphic at the top is the statistics from the wordpress dashboard. The lower graphic is from statcounter.com. I believe the difference in the count is due to statistcs be gathered in different timezones.

The end result: 2 to 3 times more daily visitors and RSS subscribers.

Thank you all for coming!

Subscribe by email is fixed

Several readers let me know the subscribe by email link (upper right corner) was not working.

It was quite confusing because feedburner showed me that subscription by email was enabled, and yet no one could subscribe. Turns out I mis-typed the feed ID when I created the link on my blog. I was sending everyone to someone else’s feed!

I’m glad the other feed didn’t have email subscriptions enabled. Who knows what you would have received. Ha ha.

Here is the direct link for those who prefer to subscribe by email rather than rss.

Thanks to everyone who pointed it out to me.