Archive for the ‘Rebuild’ Category
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 176 views
One of the things I've been keen to do for a while is to add some better comments functionality to London for Free to make it feel a bit more web 2'y.
And as things have gone a bit quiet on the work front lately, I thought I'd seize the moment ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008 106 views
Well, the redesigned site has been live for 4 months now and it seems to have been worth all the pain of recreating it (note to self - it takes longer than you think!)
In those four months its had over 70,000 visits and over 335,000 page views: comparable figures for ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008 136 views
Things seem on the whole to be working out well in the new job - except that after 10 days (no, I'm not joking), I'm still waiting for an external email address. And yes, I am part of IT.
I find this quite amusing, and pointed out to the help desk ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008 186 views
The site's been live now for 11 weeks, and yesterday's visitors helped take the adsense earnings for July alone to over $100 - in only 9 days.
Amazing! Google is one cow I would gladly kiss.
So I thought I'd have a look at the visitor stats so far.
Since 24th April when ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008 136 views
Well, since the relaunch a couple of months ago of the main London For Free site, this has been at the top of my list of phase 2 stuff to do. Then last month, there was an excellent article in .Net magazine, describing the basics of making your site mobile.
So ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008 86 views
It was only a matter of time, I guess.
Recently I had started to receive spam emails through the web forms dotted around the new site. Thinking back with horror to the time a few years ago when I was receiving thousands of spam messages a day, I knew I had ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 109 views
The site's been live for four weeks now and trends are becoming clearer.
Though site traffic is slightly down from the old version of the site (when comparing April to May) the number of pages visited per user is far higher.
Less visitors but more in depth visits - I'm happy with ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008 99 views
The site has now been live for just ten days and I'm already seeing a significant increase in affiliate earnings.
Some broad facts and figures:
- on my old site, google adsense adverts were generating earnings of around $5 a month simply based on the single link sitting neglected on my old ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008 77 views
The re-designed London for Free site is now live.
After spending every weekend this year - and many evenings - working away at it, it feels strange to suddenly not have to write content, design pages and fix bugs.
The good news is that after only 2 days since it was launched, ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008 100 views
After two months, the site is now almost ready to go live. This weekend I've been applying the finishing touches to it.
All the content is now done apart from one page which I need to give a bit of thought to - the sitemap for visitors (not to be confused ...
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