Beginner’s Blog

Well, it’s a full month that I started blogging.

My stats: Pageloads: 6340, Unique visitors: 4495, First time visitors: 3896, Returning visitors: 599. Of them - 3000 paid for during various services (FunPage Exchange, blogexplosion).

Adsense earnings 10.30.

Totay worked on my new project. Wrote a story, submitted to Digg. Got 7 diggs and about 60 visitors already. Yesterdays submission was 4 diggs and about 100 visitors, that brought me $1 in AdSense earnings. JUST FOR 1 CLICK! Well, today also got 1 click for $.025. Not $1, but on Blogdotes it took me at least 4 clicks to get that. Seems that I got quite good topic.

Have to do something about my writing style. Seems that I tend to gravitate to long winded posts that take’s hours to write. That’s unsustainable.
Tried to experiment with adsense placement.  Tweaked template. Looks like I like it much less. Yesterday Iwas thinking of converting all of my blogs to Semiologic CMS. Too many things outside php files and in function files. Very hard to customize. E.g. have no idea how to place AdSense ad link units after the first post excerpt on main page, and at the end of the post on single post page. Pretty straightforward task for other templates I used.

Starting to hate WYSIWIG editors on the Wordpress 2 and Performacing. They don’t seem to work well. Always have to do manual html editing.