The Wardman Wire

One of the interesting ways that Google seems to work is that new websites (or new articles for that matter) have a “period in the sun” to see if they will become heavily linked; they then vanish and may come back to prominence later.

One corollary of that, and of the way the internet works, is that most traffic to blogs usually comes through two routes:

a) Brand new articles.
b) Old archived articles.

In the case of the Wardman Wire, perhaps 75-80% of our traffic comes via the archives, rather than via either the Magazine Front Page or the Traditional Blog version.

I have redesigned the comments box on the Wardman Wire to include a number of options including threaded comments, notification of new comments by email, a preview of the comment as you type, the ability to make the box larger or smaller, and others.

I had a question on Google Chat from a blogger wanting to know how to finf the web address of their own blog hosted on Blogger. Here are three or four ways.

I’ve had a number of blog-related questions “how do I do this” questions over the last few days, so I’m restarting my “Defogging Blogging” series of posts. And I’m wondering whether there needs to be a “getting started” E-Book.

Iain has come out with a list of 75 top political books with links through to Amazon. This is probably the most widely use way of earning pocket money on UK Political Blogs. Nearly everybody does it - including me.

The way the Amazon affiliate programme works is that if a person purchases anything from the Amazon website within 24 hours of a click through on an affiliate link, then the affiliate receives between 4% and 10% of the purchase value.

Now that I have the links between my different websites in place, I have been looking at the amount of traffic being generated over the last month, and the most popular articles.
Total Raw Traffic
On this occasion I’ve processed all the raw log files using the free version of a utility called Deep Log Analyser, rather [...]