I just got another of those dreaded automated direct messages thanking me for following them on twitter.  I didn’t recall adding this person.  In fact, I hadn’t  added anyone in over 3 months unless I personally knew them.  Could someone have found a way to force me to follow them though some back door?  Not likely.  Someone thinking “better late than never to thank me?”   Lame, but likely.  Thanks for lighting the fire under my rump to remove you and 800 more twitter jerks.

Going through my 1200+ follower list one by one, I removed anyone who mostly had:

Marketing tweets.
Retweeted crappy URL’s
Tweeted some [...] Continue Reading…

Early this morning I was able to duplicate the missing Spike issue on CMF Ads.  First we ruled out members disabling javascript.  Those using ad blocking software would not normally be accounted for by most analytic programs.  Then we ruled out server error, both the clicker and advertiser were being properly counted.  Turns out it was an IE8 issue.

The Problem: The Spike URL used target=”_blank” as part of the URL.  FireFox had no problem opening the links from Spike in a new tab.  IE8, however, would open each URL in a new browser window.  Unfortunately, if you clicked two [...] Continue Reading…

According to my dashboard at CMF Ads, in under 3 days CMF Spike sent it’s 50th visitor to my blog.  Below is a chart of the traffic received from Spike.  Considering it was Christmas Eve, a time traditionally dead for blogging, I consider these results quite promising.  In addition to the 35 Spike visits, there were also 12 visits from the CMF forum.  The biggest mystery (until I ask Ben) is why WordPress Stats only recorded 35 visits instead of the true 50.  Obviously, the plugin won’t count my own visit, leaving a gap of 14.

Date
Referrer
Views

12-26
cmfads.com/member/spikes
4

12-25
cmfads.com/member/spikes
7

12-24
cmfads.com/member/spikes
16

12-23
cmfads.com/member/spikes
8

Now let’s take a look at how Google [...] Continue Reading…

One thing we pride ourselves on at CMF Ads is doing things better than the competition.  We heard the feedback that campaign screens were too messy and that stats were meaningless if nobody understood them.  People wanted a simple yet effective way to deliver readers to their blog at a low cost per click.  At CMF Ads we inspect every blog joining our network.  You can be sure that if one of our publishers visits your blog, they aren’t a bot.  Likewise, they know that every blog they visit has been pre-approved.  Now for the good part.  This setup [...] Continue Reading…