Beginner’s Blog

Chitika rejected my application for Blogdotes. Well, I expected that - low traffic website with no product related content. Will try again when I have some product related websites.

SE traffic for Blogdotes is increasing. Today got 6 hits from Google and 2 from msn. Checked the queries that brought people to my site:

• “Joke gratitude“- Today Blogdotes is a number 1 result on google for this query. It’s a shame that it’s such and obscure word combination.
• “parrot in toilet joke“- Google, top of page 2
• “humor sin jokes” - Google, middle of p1
• “Jokes and anecdotes” - Google, middle of p3, 2 hits
• “gratitude anecdotes” - Google, bottom of p2
• “2006 jokes” - #1 on MSN Search, btw. it was the first query that brought SE visitor to Blogdotes
• “joke stories ” - MSN Search, p1

Got problem sending trackbacks from Beginners blog. Couldn’t ping ProBlogger.net on a Feedburner post. Posted a question there, asking whether I was violating some comment policy, but it turned out that it was a problem on my side - with WordPress 2.0. There’s discussion thread on WP site about the problem: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54145 . It seems that I will have to wait for WP update to fix it. Meanwile I will use manual pingback services like:http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/ and http://www.aylwardfamily.com/content/tbping.asp

Replaced WP plugins for Delicious and e-mail on Blogdotes with Feed Flare. Couldn’t get e-mail plugin working properly anyway, except on homepage.

Post ideas: expand on FeedBurner plugin, LT of Blogging (needs serious research).

Reread my feedburner post. Will definetely have to work on my writhing style. 14 variations of “you” in one 7 sentence paragraph !!!!!

Last few days I noticed that readers of Blogdotes are spending more time on the site. Before, they usually viewed 1 page per visit, so my number of hits and unique visitors was usually pretty close - 15-20% differnce. From Thursday the number of hits got significantly higher then before. Yesterday the number of hits was more then 2 times bigger the UV. Today its about 80% higher.