Hello writers, I have some bad news, which may not actually be that bad. It is bad because it means that traffic has died in the short term, but isn’t so bad because the site will eventually come out of this really well. That news is that Excerptz.com has been ‘Sandboxed’ by Google. The sandbox [...]
Hi Users, Sorry for the big gap between blog posts, it has been a hectic couple of weeks, mainly as a result of a burning desire to get through an eBook which will be made available on the Kindle store. Some of you may have noticed a sharp decline in page views which coincided with our last [...]
Yesterday I did my tax return, it had been playing on my mind for about four weeks (worried that I didn’t have enough saved to pay it straight away). Thankfully, I did, and for that reason I can start hosting contests again! The April contest yielded some fairly decent entries, the results of which can [...]
After a good four or fives days of theme changes, technical problems, and a steep steep learning curve for your site admin, I have just this minute applied the finishing touches to our new ad layout. You have probably noticed an extremely poor CTR from your Excerptz content over the past few days, please be [...]
Some of you will be aware that I have been working on a fair bit of stuff behind the scenes with Excerptz, particularly with analysing plugins and their effects on our server load. Yesterday I made a big decision, and that is to completely change the dynamic of Excerptz. I was fond of the previous [...]
You may recall that for the duration of April we held a writing contest. We had 8 entries into the contest, although I suspect that we actually had quite a few more. One of the entry requirements was that articles were tagged with ‘April Contest‘ to be entered, I saw a few articles floating around [...]
Those of you who signed up a while back would have seen a small forum, which one day swiftly disappeared. That forum was removed because it was, frankly, pretty rubbish and very slow. I am pleased to announce that the forum is now back, as you can see via the top navigation bar. The forum may look [...]
Hi everybody, You may have noticed some changes to the AdSense layout in the past couple of days. These changes are not here to stay, but the old layout isn’t coming back either. Over the next few days (possibly a little longer) I will be implementing and testing three vastly different ad layouts, before settling [...]
Only, you can’t see most of these changes. They are invisible. Over the past three days I have been working 12 hour shifts trying to get Excerptz fixed, with some great technical help from the owners of Xobba and ThisIsFreelance (two different people). The biggest problem has been with the ‘error connecting to database’ issue, [...]