WordPress Cache Plugin
Update: Some of my readers left me recommendations in the comments saying to upgrade to WP-Supercache, so I did. Thanks everyone.
My followup to Entrecard
Overall, here is my summary:
I sent 47 people from my blog to Entrecard.
With the ads I purchased from Entrecard, I received 31 visitors back to my blog.
Million Dollar Wiki is for sale – [Breaking]
Graham Langdon’s original claim to fame website (MillionDollarWiki.com) has just been listed on Sitepoint a little over 60 minutes ago. The Million Dollar Wiki has profited Graham over $100,000 since it’s creation, but after all of the biggest ‘make money online’ blogs have had their say, it will be interesting to see if a new owner can build up the hype to earn a lot of money back on his investment. You can see the Sitepoint auction here. I am curious as to why the person who listed the auction has only registered this week. Their username is “Interking111″, so I am not 100% positive that this is Graham, but he might have hired someone to sell it for him. I do not see why else someone would pay $40 for a listing. I can assume that this post, as well as the Sitepoint listing may start up a second round of buzz, which might be exactly what Graham is hoping for. I find the sale listing time off, because just on his blog post today he said he was venturing out to different niche bloggers to continue promoting it, so I do not know why he would go back on his word a few hours later. If this was actually a publicity stunt, it sure made great link bait. Kudos Graham!
Cherry Chocolate Rain – A Viral Video Case Study
A new video was just released on Youtube from the wildly popular Tay Zonday, who is a local Minnesotan resident. His first video (Chocolate Rain) was an accidental internet success when it was made wildly popular from the 4Chan forums, and ultimately led him to be one of last summers largest internet memes. The video grew so popular (11.5 million views at the time of this post), that it now has been featured by national TV networks, as well as giant ringtone networks. Tay Zonday is taking his Chocolate Rain publicity to the next step now, because Dr. Pepper has just funded him to make a viral video supporting their new product (Diet Cherry Rain Dr. Pepper).
The month in review, as well as my thanks
In response to my earlier post about getting rid of Kontera, many of you either hated it or said that I should keep running it to give a good analytic review of it. I have decided to remove it all together, because of a few reasons. The first is because I received about 50% of your comments saying get rid of it, and 50% saying keep it to do a review. I do not believe I should lower the quality of my blog just to provide a case study or a testimonial, since I am writing for quality, not for money. After testing Kontera on and off, my pages seem to load around 2 seconds faster each (this adds up fast!). I may try Kontera again after my blog is larger, but for now they are just a nuisance.
Should I get rid of Kontera?
Kontera is an advertising program that I wanted to test run on my blog. It is the double underlined words that you see after the entire site loads. I started using them on November 7th, and so far I have only made about $2 from them. Now obviously, with the growth rate of the blog, I will eventually be making a decent income from them, but I do not know if the extra $10-50/m is worth annoying my visitors, and adding a little extra delay in the blog loading.
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