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A note about the Stronico blog traffic

Steve French — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:59:40 +0000

As you might expect, most of the traffic comes from Google, and curiously most of the search terms are about problems with QuickBooks. The How To Fix series is the second most popular. Happily the search term “Visual Contact Management” is a prominent search term as well. I’m still debating as to whether or not the photos in the blog posts are of any use or not.

And yesterday was the highest traffic day in the history of the blog. I’m not sure why, but the middle of the week tends to do far better than other days.

And in case anyone was wondering, I’ve been building out the public side of the site lately.

On the whole, I’m quite happy with WordPress

Steve French — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:19:09 +0000

It’s been an unexpectedly large amount of work, but I am quite happy with the blog on WordPress. All of the tweaks should be done in the next week. WordPress did go out of it’s way to please with their lovely “Blogger to WordPress” plugin.

I originally tried to hosting on Windows 2003 and IIS6. That was a horrible mistake. Essentially the mod_rewrite feature found on Unix simply isn’t there with that version of Windows/IIS and there is no good way to make the feature work on Windows. I’m still a bit flummoxed by widgets and what not, but I take back all of the negative things I’ve said about WP in the past.