live website creation and promotion

Added AdSense tracking to all websites at my Google Analytics account, will report here any interesting results as soon as they appear.

Received Amazon revenue for Q3 and Q4 2005. Total of $89. Not too much, but Reader² is not that popular - yet. I hope this will change soon.

Some statistics for Q3+Q4:
There were 9677 clicks to Amazon, with 21 items ordered through direct links, 106 items total - means 85 items were ordered by people already after they navigated out of direct-linked items. Strange, but better for me - Amazon keeps the affiliate cookie for some time.
That resulted in conversion value of 1.10% - I don’t know if that’s small or large - but I assume it’s near the average.
That also resulted in 92 total items shipped, Amazon’s revenue of $1,566.

Added links to Google Reviews and Netflix for every movie at MyFilmz. Do you think there should be more useful links?

Update. How could I forgot IMDb?

My first experience with Rent A Coder was not so nice - the coder I chose to make a work has disappeared and I wasted some time with the arbitration process. But afterwards I reposted my project (coding new MyFilmz’s design to XHTML/CSS) and now you can see the results
I’m planning to use Rent A Coder from time to time and recommend it to others.

Added ratings to MyFilmz. All credits are going to Rogie King for his very nice CSS star rating code.

Right now you can’t do much except just give out your ratings to the movies, but I’m going to improve that and add sort by ratings, search by ratings and other things.

As well, ratings system will very soon be added to all my other projects.

If you haven’t noticed it yet, I added links to Alibris bookstore, its main advantage is ability to buy used books. I’ll report here if there will be some interesting results about this affiliate.

Thanks to Lab, I’ve optimized ad blocks positions at MyProgs. Will report results after 2-4 weeks.

Changes (adsense formats reference):

• Removed ‘Wide Skyscraper’ block from right side.
• Stretched items list and made it 3-columns.
• Removed ‘Half Banner’ block from the end of items list.
• Added ‘180×90 link unit’ to the left panel, above tags list.
• Added ‘Half Banner’ block as first item in the list
  (only for unregistered users).
• Added ‘Leaderboard’ block to the bottom of the page
  (only for unregistered users).

It is much easier to work with AdSense, if you’re in UK - now I can transfer my payments directly to the bank account

December…

Reader² stats:

• 16200 visits from Google
• 300 visits from MSN
• 300 visits from Yahoo
• 200 visits from AOL
• 3500 direct visits
• 15% returning visitors

Other interesting referrers:

• 1100 visits from go.Mail.ru (russian search)
• 700 visits from LiveJournal
• 400 visits from del.icio.us

Popular search phrases are misspelled words, as usual:

• 233 “la palabra del mudo”
• 101 “cunninglus”

That’s very interesting: 58 “books to read”

MyProgs stats:

• 4200 visits from Google
• 400 visits from Yahoo
• 100 visits from MSN
• 1200 direct visits
• 11% returning visitors

Popular search phrases:

• 130 “lvllord”
• 72 “firefox gestures”

MyFilmz stats:

• 420 visits from MSN
• 360 visits from Google
• 1100 direct visits
• 25% returning visitors

Popular search phrase:

• 300 “new movies” - that’s nice

P.S. From now on statistics is gathered by Google Analytics, I’m going to turn off AWStats soon.
If you think that I can post here more interesting data from Google Analytics results - tell me exactly where to look for it, and I’ll do it.

I just can’t miss the latest flashmob out there
Happy New Year!!!
I wish you good luck and all the best in 2006!

W8alth started today as yet another stealth-mode project. We hope it will be really nice thing, when launched.