‘1337′ Feed Subscribers (Readers)

I don’t mean to brag here (although as of late, everyone has so many subscribers, this is hardly a feat), but I have 1337 subscribers on PhotoshopStar ;)
For those of you that don’t know what 1337 means, check it out on Urban Dictionary.

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StumbleUpon Traffic Blows

Just my thoughts and opinions here (I’ve experienced the StumbleUpon effect a few times).
The only way StumbleUpon traffic could be useful is if you got tens of thousands of visits from it, and you’re using a CPM ad network that pays you for the impressions, because:

SU visitors only view one page per visit
SU visitors do […]

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Alexa Updates

Looks like Alexa has recently made some changes to the way they rank websites, or, at least they’re now using more sources other than their trusty ole toolbar.
There’s plenty of good reading material on the subject, of which you can find a few of my favorites here: ProBlogger, TechCrunch, Mashable.
Wellsir .. PhotoshopStar went from 45k […]

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First Ever Action on del.icio.us

Well, PhotoshopStar’s just received its first ever action from del.icio.us today. Up until now, PhotoshopStar has never really broken the saved by 300 people mark, it’s now around 900!
I noticed a little traffic boost for today so I went and found the source.

Good traffic, pretty good amount of pageviews per visit. 17,000 pageviews in total […]

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How old Content can Rekindle

Well, it seems to be getting close to that time of year again, Christmas, so my now one-year-old Photoshop tutorial, Designing a Festive Christmas-Themed Template is making its way back up to the top of most visited tutorials again… somehow.
It seems to be getting a bit of traffic from Google in particular, see, check out […]

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Happy Days: Now on Page 1 of Google

Yep, I’ve finally managed to get myself on page 1 of Google.com for the phrase photoshop tutorials!
I’m really happy about this, seeing as though I was stuck on page 2 for a matter of months, now I’m just hoping that it doesn’t go and drop back to page 3 or something absurd straight away ;) […]

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Strange Traffic Activity from StumbleUpon

So, for a few months I’m getting no traffic from StumbleUpon whatsoever, then all of a sudden I get 1000 visits, then the next day it’s down to 500, then down to almost nothing with 45 visits, but then back up to 1200 :) Gotta love SU and it’s unpredictability! I do so love the […]

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