Archive for the 'Ongoing Projects' Category
Friday, August 15th, 2008
I’ve developed what appears once again to be a good habit - NOT to upgrade a WordPress instance soon after new [sub-]version release. Wait at least a month.
Indeed, why hurry? I back up both database and file systems regularly and automatically, most inherently insecure features of the system (like user registration) are turned off, Apache’s mod_security is in place…
However, the rule of waiting a month (more is better) for a release to mature resulted in my installation being stuck with some old version of WP (2.2) - they just were updating way too quickly. And I started to feel slow in implementing new features in my blogs. So I took a plunge with WordPress 2.6.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
[en]
Recently I'm seeing a lot of hired commentators promoting loads of *.RU domains registered just a couple of weeks before comment time. It seems logical to automatically remove all comment author URLs which are in .ru TLD. See below for a WordPress plugin for that.
[ru]
Заметка о наёмных комментаторах не подействовала: пачки сайтов продолжают бесстыдно продвигаться. И хоть мне не очень жалко Google Juice (т.е. частички Page Rank), считаю, всё же, дурацкие ссылки портят вид блога. Надо было придумать что-то действенное.
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
[en]
Advertising experiment held at www.STEREO.org.ua persistently shows double the advantage for English when compared to blogging in Russian.
Everything is virtually twice more effective in English: CTR, CPM, earnings. The only pale thing is CPC with its modest 25% improvement to Russian.
[ru]
Проводимый на STEREO.org.ua с 15 марта эксперимент показывает устойчивое преимущество англоязычного контента перед русским при прочих равных.
Так, за апрель у статей на английском языке отмечено по сравнению с русскими:
- 87% превосходство в Page CTR
- 128% превосходство в Page eCPM
- 110% превосходство в Earnings
- всё это при количестве просмотров всего на 8% меньшем.
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Posted in Business, On the Web, Ongoing Projects, по-русски | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
[en]
Real people are gradually replacing spam-bots in the effort to overcome modern sophisticated spam-filtering techniques. By lowering signal-to-noise ratio paid commentators or bio-bots are threatening the whole blogosphere of exterminating one of its basic institutions - comments.
[ru]
Всё чаще приходят в блог комментарии, создаваемые не инфицированными зомби-персоналками, а настоящими людьми, которые нашли “работу” за несколько центов спамить блоги вручную.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Для гостей STEREO, пользующихся мобильными браузерами, установлен новый плагин - WordPress Mobile Edition.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
На прошлой неделе ужесточил рекламную политику на STEREO: перенёс блок на самое видное место, под заголовок статьи. При этом продолжал почти полное бездействие в смысле создания контента.
Статистика показала - ускорился рост добавления STEREO в “Избранное” (”Закладки”) посетителями сайта: за последнюю неделю показатель примерно на 20% выше, чем за предыдущую.
Просто совпадение или таки реклама нравится?
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Спустя 42 дня после вступления в систему рекламного брокера Google AdSense, на счету накопилось вознаграждение за размещение рекламы на нескольких сайтах в размере $10.02.
Это довольно быстро - первая круглая сумма - $1.00 - потребовала 10 дней.
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Первый итог, первый доллар… Прошло 10 дней как был открыт эккаунт AdSense и вот сегодняшний отчёт Гугла: 3162 показа, [censored] кликов, Page CTR 0.[censored]%, eCPM (фактическая стоимость тысячи показов) $0.32, Total earnings $1.00.
Если бы не круглая цифра, я бы и не написал об этом. Многие считают оскорбительным предоставлять тысячу импрессий за несколько центов. А мне интересно понаблюдать, так что пока убирать рекламу не буду.
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
After a week of non-writing at STEREO website statistics showed Google search’s contribution for traffic diminished somewhat noticeably - by as much as 20% (approx).
This was deduced from observing the proportions of contributions from two of the top 3 search engines topical for STEREO - Google, Windows Live and Yandex.
Yandex is new here, yet it is perceived as important traffic supplier having provided 1/4 of the Google’s traffic during previous two months. This week the distance between the two was shrinking.
BTW “Add to bookmarks” figure in AWstats felt a bit too: from the whopping 36.6% in the beginning of the month to 34% for the 24 days of November. So you rather have a good reason to suspend writing like this.
Small wonder the traffic in general continued to grow as usual, 1% a day on average - this is the momentum at work.
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Traffic growth for www.STEREO.org.ua looks promising now:
Especially so in the light of STEREO.org.ua having been largely neglected until late July 2007 since the last record was published in January. No wonder traffic plummeted then.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
The two most common approaches in Web analytics are:
- Web server logfile analysis
- Page tagging
Page tagging is the method of choice from the commercial standpoint. However, it’s got its characteristic drawbacks:
- changes to the web application are needed
- vendor lock-in of some sort takes place (regardless whether you use a subscription-based solution or acquire a hosted one).
On the other hand there is one nice web stats tool operating in the old good logfile analysis realm, which is AWStats. Until recently it was a reliable work horse for many webmasters delivering quite useful reports about origin breakdown, sessions (visits duration), lists of landing pages (”entry”) & exit pages - categories commonly associated with the more complex page tagging statistics systems.
What happened to it?
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Posted in On the Web, Ongoing Projects, Tips & tricks, UNIX & Computing | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 24th, 2007
По неведомым причинам STEREO.org.ua выпал из индекса Яндекса (такой вот каламбур) где-то в январе 2007 года. В то время “Я” лидировал в поставках трафика сюда, обгоняя Google на 20%. Потом яндексовский трафик пропал. Совсем.
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