Comments on: Stuff You Probably Missed

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:56:40 +0000

Hey, the almighty dollar doesn’t have to be lots of dollars!

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:46:22 +0000

I don’t know about the almighty dollar reference lol, but 2 hits in a month or so can’t be all bad…I may keep it a bit longer.

Dennis Edell´s last blog post..Blog Review: Thou Shall Blog Dot Com

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:06:32 +0000

Yeah, well, I hate that I had to get rid of Widget Bucks, but it just clashed with too many things.

Chitika works for me because it’s not seen by my regular visitors, so if it’s a problem it’s only a problem with those few people coming through Google search, which is low. Though it’s still a couple of days early to be talking about it, seems my Google traffic is up to 12.7% from that 4% it was at about six weeks ago or so. I’m not quite sure what that’s telling me, but suddenly there needs to be kind of a reevaluation of things.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:01:21 +0000

Ah, that emotional trigger of the almighty dollar hit again, eh Dennis? Well, with that spike in traffic you got, it’s no wonder someone else decided the gravy train might not be such a bad idea.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:26:15 +0000

I was so waiting or this to pop up again, and I’m LMAO right now…literally.

A couple of you will remember us going back and forth about this…I got one link in only two weeks, then nothing and I was thinking the widget was too big and gawdy; blah blah blah…

Anyhoo…I was seriously thinking of removing it and BLAM a notice that someone else scratched the itch.

Aye Curumba…

Dennis Edell´s last blog post..Blog Review: Thou Shall Blog Dot Com

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:21:11 +0000

Yes, we are.

If we don’t test things, we never know what will work the best on our sites and with our readers.

It’s like Chitika and WidgetBucks. I like what they are offering and some people are making good money from Chitika. I like the local links on the WidgetBucks widget.

But, Chitika just doesn’t work for me and my audience and, as you mentioned in your javascript article, too many widgets slows everything down.

As a result, we have to try to do the best we can while wasting the least resources and still try to balance that against how our readers perceive what we’re doing.

It’s all a balancing act, and all the parts keep changing.

Act on your dream!

John Dilbeck´s last blog post..Happy Thanksgiving!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:35:01 +0000

Enjoy the reading, John. And yes, I knew you had discontinued yours, but I will be testing it at some point, just to see where it goes. Those of us who try to monetize our blogs are always moving things around, aren’t we?

By: John Dilbeck

John Dilbeck — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:01:03 +0000

Good morning, Mitch,

You can be my promoter any time you like! (grin)

As you know by now, I’ve decided to delete the ScratchBack widget after trying it a few weeks. I don’t have anything against it, it just wasn’t working on my site and any widget I can delete speeds up the site a bit. (I’ll be deleting more badges and widgets in the next week or two.)

I like testing things to see how they work for me.

Now, I’m going to read your other favorite articles to see what I’ve missed.

Act on your dream!

John Dilbeck´s last blog post..Tip Jars Part Two

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:29:25 +0000

Thanks Elijah. Of course, now the issue is to find the time to get it all done. But I will.

By: Elijah

Elijah — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:27:25 +0000

Great recap man!

Tons of top blogs I have read place the crucial stuff above the fold – it’s all about visibility and as you post more things get lost in the shuffle.. having a “most popular” above the fold is a great tactic to recycle traffic downward through your archives…

Elijah´s last blog post..Monday At The Office With Elijah

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:01:32 +0000

Glad you stopped by here, Larry. Maybe you should do what I’ve done, go back and see if you feel any of your previous posts deserve to be seen again. Certainly can’t hurt, right?

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:40:01 +0000

interesting post — have been blogging for almost five years. Started as mainly yapping to the universe and never did intend my blog to make money — maybe that’s why my traffic is sparse LOL —
will be back to read your book writing entries and thanks for stopping by and commenting on my blog

Larry´s last blog post..Today I began a new journey

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:26:06 +0000

Thanks Dennis. Yeah, I figured they might be more prominent up above than on a sidebar. The thing, of course, is always time, but I’m going to get it all done.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:56:16 +0000

Oh wonderful, 12 MORE links I have to read…THANKS A LOT! LOL

Your first sentence brings back fond memories…my DSWM blog actually started long before when the “now” first post is dated.

A couple months back I deleted, ohhh 40 posts or so that weren’t so special, had no comments, etc. (Well, not deleted but saved in draft for updating and reposting.)

From recent experience I can say that having your top posts above the fold (or even in the sidebar) is a SUPERB idea!

Not only will you get additional readers on those, most will stick around and read other posts as well….it’s a really good “sticky”.

Dennis Edell´s last blog post..2 NEW BLOGS Unveiled! FINALLY!!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:57:53 +0000

I thought about adding something along the side, but I’m going to go the route of putting it at the top, in case folks want to go that route. But the concept of putting it within a new post works well because people do tend to get curious if you can present them something up front.