ShoppingAds
By maurizio | November 1, 2007
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Today I’ve received an invitation to test ShoppingAds. I was already looking for an alternative to Adbrite because it seemed to me that no one cared about it ( 99% of the time I checked it, there was an ads about Russian Brides).
I wonder if you’ll like it, at least you can try it on your own blog.
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Shoe wins and IE loses
By maurizio | November 1, 2007
Even with today’s stats Shoemoney beat John Chow.
If you are watching my site with Internet Explorer you’ll see some weird position for the posts. I am sorry but I have no idea why it happens. I know that the chart’s html code must be all on the same line to avoid problems (due to wordpress), but I have no idea why the posts on IE are down there (or here if you read it with IE :-) ). I hate when the two browsers render the pages differently. I used to worry a lot about the behaviour on IE, but lately I’ve noticed that most of my readers use Firefox so I don’t mind that much anymore.
I am not blaming IE to behave wrongly; I think it’s Firefox that is behaving wrongly probably. I noticed a lot of times that Internet Explorer is simply more strict on the way it renders HTML. It means that when you make mistakes on HTML, IE shows the code wrongly because you’ve made a mistake. Firefox instead try to understand what you meant and it shows the code “correctly”. On this case IE is the right one; it’s better to show you the mistake rather than guessing what you meant.
Anyway it’s not always like that. Most of the times is IE that guess in the wrong way.
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Shoemoney is the winner
By maurizio | October 31, 2007
Apparently. If they take today as the last day of the competition, Shoemoney beat John Chow by more than 2000 readers and 10% more gain. If they use Feedburner dates, we have to wait until tomorrow because FB stats are from yesterday (see my table dates).
Shoe played his card just 2 days ago because the the huge spike is visible just today (with yesterday stats, remember?). He gained almost 5000 readers in just one day. That’s a lot of readers. I wonder if he used a trick or he just added a subscription popup on one of his ringtones site.
I think I can say that both are winners. Shoe can brag about being the winner of the competition, but John learned a lot of new stuff and gained more than 50% RSS readers, which will inflate his earnings for the month.
This competition didn’t have enough rules. If the rules were to use only the blog to promote the RSS, I think John could have been the winner. John Chow is an expert in blogging while Shoemoney isn’t exploiting it as much as he could. Shoe even said he’s not an expert on that.
Anyway check the chart:
I will publish a long post on how to create this kind of charts soon. Leave a comment if you want to see it sooner.
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Charts: John Chow vs Shoemoney
By maurizio | October 22, 2007
John Chow is humiliating Shoemoney with this competition. He’s leading in any way. If you check data from their starting values ( 8585 for John and 10833 for Jeremy), Mr Chow is winning. Even if you check the official values for the 1st October he’s winning again.
He is winning in absolute numbers 3555 vs 1585 and of course in percentage ( 41.4% vs 14.6%).
In my opinion the percentage value is the most important. It’s way easier for sites with large subscriber base to get better; imagine a blog with 1000 subscribers that reached a peak of 1500; maybe there are 200 readers that have subscribed but forgot to check the feed reader so they don’t show on the stats. It’s easy to ask them to check and you suddenly have an increase of 100-200 readers.
Having said that, John numbers are impressive, almost 50% more readers in just one month (and we have 9 days left)
Check this chart to see graphically what happened:
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It’s not that difficult to create charts and they create an added value to any post. I’ll probably publish some instructions on how to create a nice chart if I get enough feedback (where enough >= 1) .
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