March 30, 2008

Wordpress 2.5

Christian Decker wrote this in the late afternoon:
WordPress 2.5 has been released with a major overhaul to the interface and a range of new features. The biggest change is in the appearance of the administration backend, which is described as being a “Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard.” The WordPress dashboard is now widget friendly, and users can include items such as stats, offering similar functionality to MovableType. Other new features include multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, code friendly WYSIWYG, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and improved search. A demo video from Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg above, and further details on the WordPress blog here.

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March 28, 2008

The entrecard effect

Christian Decker wrote this at around evening time:

I was wondering lately what the actual effect of using entrecard on my blog is, so I stopped dropping cards for a few days until the drops on my blog were almost none and then 5 days ago I started dropping again and guess what the traffic went straight up:

EntreCard Stats change

While this surely looks promising however the bounce rate went through the roof with an increase of a whopping 20%. Still not bad enough? After 3 days of dropping the time on site reached the all time low of just 23 seconds…

So EntreCard is nice if you want to jump start your blog, or pad in some additional users, but it’s not the way to look for quality traffic (as in dedicated readers that take the time to appreciate your effort in writing the posts). After all there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.I personally will continue using entrecard because some droppers are bound to stick around

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March 27, 2008

Non US-citizens unable to signup to Google AdSense?

Christian Decker wrote this in the early evening:
I just tried to sign up to Google AdSense but was unable to do so:

Google Adsense

Does this mean that if I don’t have an american contact address I’ll be unable to sign up or what? I’m pretty fed up with Google behavior!

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