Has anyone found a better stats tracking package than AwStats? On two different sites this month, on two different hosts, I’ve had AwStats simply not report any unique visitors for a day or more in a row, while StatCounter.com confirms I have indeed had the normal number of uniques on those days.
I like StatCounter [...]

Posted in Development & Design, Traffic 2 Comments »

Is anybody else getting lots and lots of spam, possibly hand-entered, and almost all from people using Russian email addresses?
This site’s been getting about 10 comments a day from some user called “Levitra”, whose messages are just strings of links. This despite the fact I have this site set so the same IP can [...]

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I’m a huge Mac fan. Not a proseletyzer who seeks to convert errant Windows users - they just work like my brain works, and I like them. But I’m very pissed at Apple right now.
I own an iBook. I bought an extended warranty for it. Waste of money, as are almost [...]

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After an ugly bout of stomach flu or virus, I’m back and posting again.
AdBrite has redeemed themselves after being difficult to contact a couple of weeks ago. A few days ago, I called them about a new issue - a naughty ad that had somehow slipped onto my site - and they resolved the [...]

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I’ve upgraded several WordPress blogs from 1.5.x to 2.0.1 or 2 now, without a single hitch. Even the plugins that weren’t supposed to work, ended up working.
Until now. My freakin’ host went down in the middle of my upgrade! And I have to leave in a few minutes, so it’ll [...]

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There are statistics about where it’s best to stick PPC ads on your blog, to maximize click throughs. You’ve all seen the infamous Google heat map, which other PPC services also use as a guide. But my results differ slightly, from one blog to the next, and I have a theory.
I [...]

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I’ve been emailing AdBrite to get them to remove the intermission ad that’s currently running on this site. There’s no way I can remove it myself. Their email system promises a response within 24 hours, but I started emailing sometime last week, so forget that. So today I’m calling their 1-800 number. [...]

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I wondered why I was suddenly making more money on the AdBrite Intermission ad I put on here. Turns out it wasn’t that ad: I’d accidentally selected the option to have network intermission ads on one of my directory sites. Where this site you’re currently reading has a specific advertiser who applied to [...]

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I’ve got a PHPBB forum on one of my sites, and it’s been getting spammed daily. I removed the memberlist a few days ago and made it so new accounts have to be manually approved by me: that stopped the profile spamming, where they just sign up to put their website on a page.
But [...]

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