Now that summer is over and people are back inside, sitting on their butts in front of a computer, my traffic numbers are on the upswing. While the summer doldrums brought lower than normal traffic numbers for my site, I still blew away the stats … [Read more...] about Thanks for the Hits! September 2008 Traffic Numbers
Quick question. I've had thousands of direct visitors (the ones who go directly to www.cleverdude.com) in the last few days. Where did you hear about my site that made you type in my address? A magazine? Newspaper? Let me know what brought you here! … [Read more...] about What brought you here?
I hate chain letters. The ones with either a joke, or an urban legend easily debunked at Snopes.com, or with a series of pretty pictures with a prayer at the end to make you feel guilty for not passing it on to everyone in your address book. But I do … [Read more...] about Ways to Tell You’re Old
For all the love I have for my gmail account (I use one gmail account to manage all my other accounts), the one thing I couldn't get over is that it wasn't using SSL, which is the main way to secure communications from your browser to the Google … [Read more...] about How to Secure Gmail with HTTPS (and still use Gmail Notifier)
August traffic was as I expected: moderate. I actually had very similar numbers as in June, but I expect September numbers to be significantly higher now that summer is over. Visitors: 24,704 Pageviews: 37,101 That's almost double my traffic … [Read more...] about Thanks for the Hits! August 2008 Traffic and Referral Numbers
No, I didn't repulse 1000 readers. Google isn't reporting Google Reader subscriber numbers this morning for at least CleverDude.com and BuildingNutrition.com. That's over half of my readers for both sites. I don't think all sites are affected … [Read more...] about Google not reporting subscriber numbers today
Some of you may notice that I had an article post today (Managing Work, Life and School for Graduate Students), and now it's not here. Well I meant to future-date it to post tomorrow morning at 5am EST, but didn't change the date. So if you see it … [Read more...] about Premature e-Post-ulation
