It has been a great week for me.

First, my Alexa Ranking is steadily going up and today, one of my post on rssHugger got stumbled upon. StumbleUpon sent a total of 245 unique visitors to my site which generate 500 pageviews.

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rssHugger is a new website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in.

It aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader.

Unlike other RSS feed directories, you will need to pay a one time review fee of $20 to get your own page on rssHugger for 10 years. That’s $2 a year.

However, if you give an honest review of rssHugger on your blog, the review fee will be waived.

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It is time for short update on the my Alexa Ranking Experiment and it seems to be heading the right direction.. positive figure

Current Alexa Ranking : 1,009,047 (+ 329,991)

My Alexa Ranking has rose 775761 places since I started this experiment 2 weeks ago. Again, what I am pleased with is the 1 wk average which reflects the average traffic to my site based on data for a week.

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WidgetBucks recently encountered problem tracking clicks for widgets that are configured to use the MerchSense products option. Before I continue, here is an explanation on what exactly is MerchSense :-

MerchSense™ is Mpire’s patent-pending contextual algorithm engine. It detects and analyzes the content of your website or blog to determine what product offers are most relevant to your audience. If you choose the MerchSense option when creating a new widget, simply place the code on your site and let MerchSense automatically provide the most appropriate ad content. MerchSense evaluates your editorial information daily, so, as your content changes, WidgetBucks will dynamically offer the highest-yielding products.

The reporting issue resulted in a loss of click data for specific widgets between November 16, 2007 and November 20, 2007.

Unfortunately, I used MerchSense for all my widgets and yes, I did not receive a single click during this period. At that time, I was not panic ..  well, I thought it is just coincidence that the ads did not generate clicks for 4 consecutive days. So with all the reasoning like shopping trends and all, I manage to keep myself calm and cool over this matter.

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I am ardent fan of Firefox browser and been heavily promoting it ever since I started using it few years ago. Things went well and my browsing experience with Firefox is great.. until I upgraded to the latest Firefox 2 once it was make available for public.

Since then, I encountered a serious degradation of performance which includes:-

1. Frequent hangs when switching to another tab
2. Longer loading time compares to Firefox 1.5
3. Occasionally send CPU usage to 99%

At first, I thought that it may due the extensions that I have installed but I do not encounter these problems when I am using Firefox 1.5 installed with the same extensions. In the meantime, until they solve the issue, I will re-install Firefox 1.5 on my PC. Hopefully, the upcoming Firefox 3 will offer a huge improvements over its predecessor. Still a Firefox fan though.

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