I made a sad "spammer" discovery today!.

I figured something out today that is very disappointing. My daily traffic has been steadily rising a little more each month, and I've been keeping an eye on it pretty closely in Google Analytics. On average, I've been getting about 150 organic searches per day, which is a lot for me, so I'm very excited about it! I'm also getting 50 or more spam comments every day, which is why I only look at the number of organic searches. I wanted to only count new users who were reaching me by actually se

My lowest Bounce Rate ever.

I usually keep an eye on my bounce rate. A month ago it stayed at a steady 70-75 percent. I've recently started adding related posts with images right into my sidebar, which reduced my bounce rate automatically down to about 60 percent, on average. But I just checked my stats for today and saw something I've never seen before (and likely will never see again!).. a 7 percent bounce rate! Unfortunately, this is only for today, and it's only lunchtime.. But most of those 54 new people who hav

Easily make clickable image ads, banners & widgets.

I make all of my banner ads, in-text ads, and widget ads directly in Powerpoint. It makes it so easy to throw together an ad in seconds. I'm sure most of you already know how to make images and turn them into clickable ads, and I know there are other tutorials here on how to do this.. but it took me a long time to figure out that I could do this, so I thought I'd share it in case there are others left behind like me.. You can create any customized images and text in Powerpoint. For banners ad

Thinking about changing my theme.

Okay so you guys have been so helpful, I thought I'd pick your brain again. I am thinking about changing my theme. I'm 10 months in and my traffic is still improving every day. But I don't have a subscription list or any real returning visitors (other than my 20 spam referrers every day!). I've read about crazy things happening when you redesign your site, such as dramatic loss of traffic. Is that because of visitors not being familiar with it anymore or would it be because of Google and t

Can't find relevant products and services to promote.

So I've started a new site targeting college students young and old, but I can't think of any related products to promote. Anybody know of any products/service affiliate programs I could join that would be good for college students?

To anyone listening..

I've been with WA for a while now and have never really felt the need to interact with the community.I've been so busy trying to run a blog (and a toddler), it has been difficult enough to keep up.But recently I noticed all of you who followed me and decided to follow everyone back.And I am so glad I did.All of a sudden, I'm getting new blogs and trainings sent to my inbox multiple times a day.And while I still lack the time, I am sucked in by the enticing titles and I just have to take a momen