I’ve been playing around with creating a community toolbar.
I initially started looking into this in order to put together a toolbar that had exactly the feeds and links I used on a daily basis. Then I realized that the capabilities of a community toolbar were much greater than I’d imagined.
Members of the [...]

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I’ve removed the DealDotCom widget from the sidebar.
As I’d mentioned before, it was an experiment to see how an affiliate like ad would do on the blog. The results, after two weeks, are in…it did horribly. The widget generated only about 5 click throughs the entire time, and at least one of those [...]

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I’ve added a new social networking button from ShareThis.
It’ll appear at the bottom of posts and allow submitting posts to Digg and all the rest, as well as emailing posts. I’ll be running it in parallel with the FeedBurner social links for a while, to see what gets used more.
Why ShareThis?
One of [...]

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Okay, so I’ve gone and done it.
I’ve added an actual advertisement into my sidebar. It’s the DealDotCom plugin that showcases the product of the day. Naturally, if you buy the product through my link, I get a commission from it. And if you join DealDotCom through the widget, then I [...]

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Just a quick update on Blog Rush.
My traffic stats show that yesterday I received 6 visitors from other sites running the widget. Those visitors show as being referred from “widget.blogrush.com”.
That was the first day I’d received traffic. Presumably it took a day for me to build up enough credits from showing [...]

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