freeg131: Philip Gamble

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Incidentally if you wondered why I am no longer posting here it is because I have been using Twitter instead. Follow me!

All stats below are for the period from 1st- 31st January 2009. Incredibly I don’t appear to have done this since August last year.

Game Maker Affiliation Service
Unique visitors: 11,966
Pageviews: 100,299
Both figures are up on 5 months ago and I am glad. It is important that new sites continue to join the network.

Game Maker Blog
Unique visitors: 3,311
Pageviews: 11,866
Have spent far less time on the site this calendar year than I did previously. I really should spend more time on it considering its success.

Game Maker 8
Unique visitors: 622
Pageviews: 710
Almost entirely (85%) from Google searches for information about the next version of Game Maker.

Stencyl
Unique visitors: 443
Pageviews: 777
Pretty similar traffic levels to 5 months ago, despite the fact that I have not been updating the blog and the software has still not been released.

Here
Unique visitors: 227
Pageviews: 300
Blog is very rarely updated anymore.

Aidy Boothroyd
Unique visitors: 188
Pageviews: 291
Rather bizarrely considering he is no longer active in football traffic is up. This could of course be because the last stats were taken from an off-season period. I posted a graph showing how traffic varied based on BBC appearances and after he left the club.

Cassiobury Park
Unique visitors: 151
Pageviews: 447
Shockingly bad search rankings. Not sure why. Clearly I need more links in, but the site was ranking much higher half a year back. Figures are about half of what they were last summer.

Brendan Rodgers
Unique visitors: 30
Pageviews: 98
A failed attempt to replicate the success of my Aidy Boothroyd site. Okay, there isn’t a nice flash “You are mighty” animation. I’m not convinced that Rodgers is a football genius either.

• People who queue to buy tickets at stations blocking the entrance from the intelligent minority who buy tickets for periods longer than one day.
• Not knowing what the purpose of Lint Filters are and why they are always full of fluff before I use a dryer, but after I have cleaned it and used the drier used the filter is clean.
• People who pay extortionate prices for refreshments at Cinemas and try to justify it by claiming it is not such a rip off as it blatantly is.
• Tesco’s policy of letting someone who doesn’t know how to pass bananas through a till work at one when there are huge queues.  It isn’t hard to place them on the scales and press the banana button.
• Queuing anywhere.

So, Brendan Rodgers has been appointed as the new manager of Watford FC, replacing Adrian Boothroyd. AidyBoothroyd.com remains much the same except I changed the now defunct “You are Mighty” video with an article from the SkySports website announcing Aidy’s departure from the club.

When Aidy left traffic levels at the site increased, but not as high as either of the two previous spikes when the site was featured on several Crystal Palace forums and then on the BBC’s 606.

Revenue at around $2.50 CPM is higher than I am achieving elsewhere, but even so is still a loss.

So far BrendanRodgers.com just has a simple poll on it.  Don’t know enough about him to develop it futher at this stage.

Today I listened, for the first time, to all the songs on the three albums by the Killers.  Until now I hadn’t realised just how many great songs they had written/sung.  Wow.

I feel embarrassed to mention that I also listened through the Avril Lavigne albums.

On Tuesday I went to see Quantum of Solace and found it disappointing – seemed to just be a load of action sequences bundled one after another between multiple Ford and Sony products.  Then we had a US election coffee party and celebrated Obama’s historic win with a McDonalds breakfast at 5:30am.

Tonight I went to see Fireworks at the Vale – the first time I have seen fireworks set to music.  Not as good as the ones in Cassiobury though, although there was a surprise interruption when some people entered the exclusion zone and the fireworks were stopped.  Also I met and chatted to Rob West from Ricky, the first time I have seen him at Birmingham.

Apparently 25,000 people in Argentina do.
Meanwhile, e-mails in the UK get lost in translation.

Just your typical spam then, want to buy a 2261 tonne oil tanker?

So says facebook