Thursday, May 15th, 2008
This month, Project B-2 Bomber is hitting 25k visitors. That’s up 9k from last month – this is a big gain for one of my sites. Today, I had a major epiphany: I figured out what B-2 really means to people who visit.
Don’t get me wrong: I’ve always known what the site is about. We had a topic and we stuck to it, and the mission is pretty clear when ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Quick recap: Project B-2 Bomber started as a hobby, a place for me to spout off about some things. To my surprise, other authors wanted to contribute posts regularly. That site now has a number of regular authors and some occasional contributors.
I recently announced to my regular authors that I want to make us into more of a staff and start accepting article submissions from far and wide. Some of ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Project B-2 Bomber has been stuck all this summer around the 15,000 uniques/month mark. But almost every day, the Feedburner stats creep up a few digits. This probably means more of my regular readers are discovering the magic of feedreaders. My bookmark rate is falling at about the rate my Feedburner stats go up, which supports that theory, too.
I’m hopeful those AwStat numbers will increase in the fall. Right now, ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
I have Do-follow on several of my blogs, so that if you leave comments, you get real link juice back to your URL. I’m leaving it on for this site and ChillyCool, as long as the situation remains tolerable.
I added Do-follow because I think no-follow is pointless and serves Google’s desires rather than my visitors’ needs. Unfortunately Project B-2 Bomber is getting overrun with people leaving human but half-assed comments ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Something exciting happened this weekend. One of my authors on Project B-2 Bomber attended a convention about the topic of that site. While there, she wore a CafePress shirt advertising the site.
People came up to her and said they were readers of the site and talked about how much they enjoyed it.
I don’t think any amount of money can replace an experience like that. I really don’t.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Project B-2 Bomber is likely to hit 15,000 uniques this month. Because it’s a community-based site, this means a lot of work for yours truly. Comment moderation – not just deleting bad comments, but telling bad commenters what they’re doing wrong so your good commenters understand what’s acceptable and what’s not… there’s a lot of thought and a lot of clarification involved in all that.
But I feel like a tipping ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Part of the reason I started trying to earn a living online was that I don’t like telling people what to do, and that’s where my career path was headed: management. Ironically, the blog I started just for kicks – Project B-2 Bomber – has led me in exactly that direction. It’s a site about an issue, and that issue has brought a number of contributing authors to work on ...
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Sunday, April 1st, 2007
After two fabulous months with Fluid Hosting, whom I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to anyone who wants zero downtime, I dumped them. Why? Well, I took a good hard look at my sites and realized they’re just not there yet. They don’t need a host of that quality yet. So I went with ResellerZoom, who’s a good bit cheaper and certainly less perfect. But I have it on good authority ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
It might be slightly premature to refer to my latest linkbait campaign on Project B-2 Bomber as a “success”, but it didn’t totally flop from a lack of interest like some of the others. It’s getting responses on site, at least: whether or not people are telling their friends, I don’t know yet. It’s just been a day, and I’m hunting for a good stats package that doesn’t ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
I finally got B-2 Bomber working right – turned out to be a bad plugin. It was a pagination script that turned those little “previous/next entries” tags at the bottom into nice little numbers. Unfortunately, I think it must have been doing a total page count every time a page loaded. That’s why the homepage was loading slowest of all – it had to count every single page in the ...
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