Founder of Awio Web Services LLC,
graduate student at Drexel U.,
community advisor at SitePoint.
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AJAX Live-Updating Google Map
A new report I’m considering adding to W3Counter is a “Live Map” — a Google map that shows visitors arriving to your website in real-time. It updates every 3 seconds with an AJAX call, instantly recenting the map on each new visitor and popping up their information. I’ve had fun staring at it for half [...]
Multiple Applications, One Code Base
With room to grow once again, I’ve been working on the other features I planned for W3Counter back in the fall. The main task, which I hope will allow me to sell to bigger customers than my normal $5/month individual webmaster, is providing private instances of the entire service. The plan is to have three [...]
SitePoint’s Marketing Machine
Considering I’ve been scheduling every hour of the day to get everything done for the past three weeks, I’m a little surprised SitePoint was able to expose me to their message enough times to get me to buy something. But they did, and it shows how effectively they market to their user base. I’ve barely [...]
They want to buy — I better start selling
I’ve had a number of people come to me looking for a W3Counter plan that can handle more than the “Pro” plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided against [...]
Bringing the web stats to your site
I’m still working on the widgets for W3Counter. I’ve have too many other things that need attention recently to bring anything to finished form, but at least I have 6 of the 8 planned widgets working and in testing. You’ve already seen pWidget, the page stats overlay. Here are a couple more:
Google can’t buy enough brain power to ignore text ads
The SEO community’s buzzing over official word from Google that selling text links can hurt your PR and rankings. It’s truly sad that $600-a-share Google is willing to ruin its own search results because they can’t figure out how to differentiate paid ads from useful links. They’re not always different things, either, one of many [...]
URLSplit: Send hits to multiple sites with a single URL
Every few weeks one of my advertising customers asks if they can split the hits from their ad campaign among multiple URLs without buying multiple campaigns. I had the free time over the holiday yesterday, so I made that happen. URLSplit does nothing more — you provide up to 7 URLs and get one [...]
Unintended side-effect of PayPal
The biggest problem that’s surfaced with shifting the majority of orders to PayPal for payment is in tracking advertising. There’s been a significant drop-off of hits to the thank-you page after making payment — customers are leaving after PayPal’s receipt page without clicking the “return to site” button. Since the thank-you page is where the [...]
Monetization Plan for W3Counter
Continuing my trend of not taking any of the advice given, coming up with a new option instead, I don’t plan to pick any of the choices I laid out for monetizing W3Counter. Missing from that list is what I am going to do instead — add more value to the paid accounts so that [...]
Missing Money and Solving Chargebacks
In the past few weeks, I’ve mentioned some “missing money” a few times – QuickBooks telling me I earned more this year than I could account for in my bank accounts. I think I finally found that today while going over things again and figuring out how July went (worse than May and June, better [...]
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