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June 12, 2005
Trying MyBlogLog
The Blogsphere is GREAT! Anyone can write any little thing that could be useful and market it very easilly. Just e-mail people and ask them to use it. That is how I got to know about: MyBlogLog. Eric sent me this little note:
Martin --
I was hoping I could interest you in trying out MyBlogLog, a service which tracks the links that people click on to *leave* your blog. With MyBlogLog, you would know how many people you sent this week to the oilfacts pdf.
Registration and implementation is extremely quick -- five textboxes (Blog name, URL, email, password with
confirmation) and then a single line of javascript to embed in your blog template. Republish and you're immediately tracking. Under 30 seconds from start to finish.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on MyBlogLog.
We're constantly looking for ways to improve the service for our users. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Cheers!
Eric
So of course I had 30 seconds. Here is what I found:
1. I love the simple interface. Five fields and you get the javascript to plug in. I think I did the whole thing in 20 seconds.
2. The Top Links feature that puts your top links out of your site into a side bar looks cool, but there is probably some delay in the server. I have 5 links out when I go to the mybloglog.com site, but TopLinks Javascript doesn't display any. I will give it a while.
3. I already have SiteMeter and have been happy with it, but it is WAY too much information. They could do this, but don't.
4. I like clean and simple little utilities that are 100% web services. Have no idea how Eric plans to make money (well he does try to sell me a "pro" version), but I like the free little utility for now.
Thanks Eric!
Posted by Martin at June 12, 2005 5:33 PM
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oh, I forgot to mention the most useful thing about this. Now I can finally find the URLs that people are going to from Google. With a little thinking and reverse engineering I can find out how much each person is paying per click. I hate that Google is not transparent in this way. They only tell you how many clicks and how much money. Now I can finally start finding out which clicks make me money and post more about that stuff. Finally!
Posted by: ministeroforder 
at June 12, 2005 5:35 PM
The "public" version of the top five links gets refreshed once an hour so you should see some links there in about 45 minutes.
We've got about a 5% attach rate for the Pro version, so we've been profitable from day one. We've found that three days is just the right time to pull the plug on the trial version where people have become addicted to seeing realtime clickthrough stats.
Google AdWords are one of the few things we can't track on a web page. They use embedded javascript (just like MyBlogLog) and we haven't yet come up with a good solution. But we're working on it.
Rock on for giving us a go!
Posted by: EricMarcoullier at June 12, 2005 5:52 PM
Your "most useful thing about this" comment seems to conflict with this found on the site FAQ under known bugs: MyBlogLog is not tracking Google AdSense ads.
We are aware of this problem and working on a solution. We will post here when we have updated information
Posted by: Steve Larson at June 13, 2005 10:09 PM
yea I just figured that out. I thought it tracked Google, because of some of the links, but it does not. Wish it did!
Posted by: ministeroforder at June 14, 2005 6:36 AM
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