Back in February, I mentioned that the MyBlogLog widget could possibly be something that would generate traffic to your blog all by itself just by virtue of you using it. Well two and a half months later, MyBlogLog (MBL) becomes more and more valuable to me every day so I wanted to revisit it and talk about why I've developed such a fondness for it. Keep reading »
If you're active on the web for very long, you will screw up. It's inevitable. How you handle it can make you or break you, though. To show you what I mean, let's look at three different examples: one from last year in which a company dealt swiftly and expertly with a problem of their own making and two from this year where just the opposite was the case. I think the end results will be more than enough to convince you to be very proactive the next time you screw up. Keep reading »
Two and a half weeks after StatCounter broke the story and it began to spread across the web, SiteMeter has begun to respond to the issue both in the comments of my post and at much greater length in the comments on Eric Odem's. Despite that, though, I can still not find not find the official response they say is on their own blog, nor have they directly addressed many of the specific issues that people ... Keep reading »
Hopefully you're using some kind of stat tracking software on your site so that you know what's going. There are some really good free ones out there, and let me say right up front that I completely understand that they need to make money to stay in business. StatCounter (a great, free stat tracker) announced last Sunday that: We were shocked to discover just today that another well known stats provider is allowing up to 9 cookies to be installed ... Keep reading »
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