Friday, December 30, 2005
Ninth Week
Traffic of this week. You can see the "negative" effect of Christmas.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Age of Empires
Even if I was naughty all the year ;), Santa Claus brought me the third opus of AoE. Since I'm playing every evening, I have put an icon in my column (if you have a small screen, just scroll to see it).
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Friday, December 23, 2005
Eighth Week
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Banned IPs
I have now a script to ban automaticaly those who abuse (mainly by pinging the stats). There is actually 263 Class C networks excluded (about 66,000 computers). That may exclude some real visitors (and I'm sorry for that) but it seems necessary. BTW, I learnt quite a lot about iptables during the process.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Linked by Infordata.net
In it's article about pixel advertising, Infordata.net has selected the Million Dollar Screenshot (and another website) among hundreds. The article is written in italian.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Monday, December 19, 2005
Seventh Week
The traffic graph for the previous week. Nothing particular since I removed the bad hits.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Sunday, December 18, 2005
End of Spam Hits
In addition to all the measures already taken, I also set the IgnoreURL for the targeted page. So new bad hits will be ignored from now. Anyway you can see them for the last four days: the difference between the visits and the sites is big.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Artificial Referrers
I have noticed a strange boost in the number of visits. It was due to bots spamming links for drugs. I made two mistakes that I have now fixed. First the stats weren't excluded for the webcrawlers. Second they were directly accessible. To access the Webalizer stats, you now need to log in (user: guest, password: guest). I'm now counting the visitors by taking the minimum of the number of visits and the number of different sites. Canceling around 800 visitors that were probably not real.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Second Icon
I finally received this morning the icon and the link for the second sold icon. The advertized website is CompuDot.Com and is selling web templates. I have quickly review them and they look nice. The prices are affordable.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Monday, December 12, 2005
100 countries
This is probably a bit childish but I found it very pleasant to know that people of 100 different countries came here. The list is too long to be published here but the US is around 36%. Percentages for the other countries are public.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Sixth week
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Copycat
After running this website for 40 days, I'm quite satisfied with the results so far. But, as Alex said, "you know you're successfull when guys are copying you". And today I know I'm successfull because I found a copy of my website. A poor croatian guy did not only copy the idea but just mirrored my pages, copying all the images, the layout, .... just replacing the links by his own affiliate links. Anyway his page is empty so far. OTOH, no affiliate links on the original million dollar screenshot, no cheating, just pure traffic. Sorry but I won't link to his page, no free ad for the cheaters.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Fifth week
Every day is different but the weekly traffic continues to grow at a nice pace. The auction is finished, I will set the new icon as soon as I received the icon and the link from the winner (who has already paid).
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
Thursday, December 01, 2005
10000 Visits, One Month
The website has reached 10000 visits (according to Webanalyzer that is probably a bit optimistic) after one month. This is a very satisfying result. Also one more day before the end of the auction.
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
www.milliondollarscreenshot.com
