Beginner’s Blog

Been working on the new blog mostly. Tried to solve, adds not showing on the post page problem. No luck. But now I think it may be the post slug problem. We’ll see tomorrow.

Wrote another article from the internal Dell document today, and continued with promotion. It worked beyond my wildet dreams. Submitted to digg and some other places. Tried to submit article to slahdot, but was rejected. Was getting rather good traffic it seemed that for a day I might reach 200 -250 hits.

Wrote a letter to one of C-net’s reporters, who did the article on Dell being Googled. Pointed some important things that he missed in his article with a link to my blog. Probably nothing will come from this, but you never know.

And then I was slashdotted! Kind of. Someone, probably through digg spotted my article, liked it and linked to it in one of the posts to another slashdot article.

So I have 3100 hits and 2200 unique visitors today. It feels great. AdSense earnings not the impressivethough. With the main ad unit not working, CTR is only 0.4%. Still, I earned $6.19 today so far. And about 600 page impressions not accounted yet by adSense.

Found another interesting tidbit of info on Dell laptops, but probably will withold posting until Monday, when there’s a bigger target audience. Do some other posts during the weekend.

It’s interesting how quickly your expectations can adjust. Only 60 hits in half an hour !? Come on!!! I earned ONLY $6 so far today!! What the hell, that’s unacceptable!!!

Oh, AdSense doesn’t  update in realtime?!!! WHAT’s UP WITH THAT!!! ‘been checking it only every five minutes or so, since I got slashdotted.

Only yesterday I was enormously happy with a 100 visitors a DAY. And I earned $10 during whole last month. It seems like addiction. I wonder what happens when my slashdot traffic dries out…