Traffic Category

Small Traffic Boost From Digg

10.01.2008 Author: Admin In: Traffic

Yesterday, this blog was fortunate enough to get to the front page of Digg. Thankfully, I had everything all ready to go and the site weathered the minor Digg storm just fine. The story was Understanding Search Engine Penalties, and it has received over 300 votes. The traffic was pretty great, didn’t really receive many [...]

Traffic Boom to Start January

5.01.2008 Author: Admin In: Advertising, Traffic

I am always amazed at how slow the advertising requests trickle in as I continue to build up this site. In the last four and a quarter days, this site has already had 7000 unique visitors, and over 18,000 page views. At two dollars per thousand advertisement impressions, a rate that is low by todays [...]

Forgetting to Check Secondary Stats

4.01.2008 Author: Admin In: Traffic

Something completely out of character for me has happened: I went without checking my secondary stats for this site for over two weeks. What that means is that I didn’t check my Alexa rank, Technorati rank, nor my Feedburner stats for over two weeks now. For someone that usually checks them every day, sometimes twice [...]

I have to admit, the thought of launching another blog wasn’t something I was overly excited about, but I love talking about science fiction, and so AltSciFi was born. I have been writing many opinion pieces on it, and will continue to do so while adding in news reports, short stories and other science fiction [...]

What do you do when you run out of things to say and are slowly losing traffic? Fake a blog hack! Well, at least that is what John Cow has done. If you visit the blog, you will be redirected to an image that says the blog has been hacked and that if the hacker [...]