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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John Chow vs Shoemoney
By maurizio | October 15, 2007
For the first time Shoemoney is heading the competition. I was thinking that maybe he was just waiting for the last days, but instead he started to work at it now. Maybe he was just waiting to speak about it with Dllsmack.
Check the stats on my right bar. You can have it on your page by just coping the javascript that generates it.
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Upgrade your Blog or face hate email
By maurizio | October 11, 2007
Nice title, isn’t it?
Unfortunately it’s true.
Blogging software is complicated and programmers sometimes make mistakes on it.Sometime the problem is not the blog itself but the software that lies below it. It happens that some of those problems can be used to gain access to your web server account. This kind of bugs could be seen as a problem for the webmaster only but that’s far from the truth. A cracker (or script kiddie, whatever you prefer to use to define those “hacker” ) isn’t really interested in hacking your “Make Money Online” blog just to show his skills and he’s not interested in reading your stats too. The modern crackers are interested in your database, especially user data. That’s why your readers could start sending you hate mail.
I did that myself.
If you haven’t understood yet, the interesting data on the Database are comment’s email addresses. Do you remember the small text “not displayed” near the comments’ email address request? Well, that email address is secret and only the owner of the blog can see it. If a cracker gain access to your database, he can read all your users’ email addresses!
If you are unlucky to be in that situation and one of your users did a little experiment like I did, you’ll start to get email from him.
My experiment was to use a unique address for every blog where I leave a comment. I don’t write in many blogs so it’s not that difficult. I keep track of them and they are less than 50. A couple of days ago I started to receive email do that address so I wrote some kind of “hate” email to the owner with a question if he’s the spammer or if he had some problem with the server.
If he was honest with me (and if I trust what he said) he was a victim of that defacement. Actually the victims are all those people who wrote a comment on his blog leaving the real email address.
Today I’ve received 20 spam to that address (they should be 10 because for some reason they were doubled. Stupid spammers).
Next time you see a security update for your blog, download it immediately.
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