As I chip slowly away at revamping this site, I look forward to the day when I can start promoting it. I’ve been focusing most of my site promotion activity on my Sihanoukville Journal and have seen some dramatic improvements, even though I only find time for a post or two per week. Awhile ago, I added a new widget to that site and I love it even more than I love Google Analytics.
Feedjit is a free widget you can add to your website or blog. It’s dead easy to install on WordPress. Simply drag and drop a text box from outside the widget area to wherever you want to place it amongst your other widgets. Then copy and paste the code into the text area, click save and it’s done. I’ve just done it here.
So far, the only traffic that has shown up here is mine, but this morning I made a new post on my journal, Some Sihanoukville Safety Tips for Travellers and when I came back a couple of hours later, I discovered I’d already had visitors from all over the world, including Melbourne, Australia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Montreal, Quebec and South San Francisco, California. If I’d checked on Google Analytics, I would have seen numbers only. Having a location just makes those visitors more real to me and inspires me to write more and better blog posts.
After you’ve visited this page, come back and look for yourself on my sidebar. Then imagine how good it feels on my end to see you there. If you want to really personalise your blog or website, I highly recommend Feedjit. Like I said, it’s free. In return, they place one unobtrusive ad at the bottom of the widget. That’s a price I’m more than willing to pay. If you don’t like the ad, you can get the paid version of Feedjit for $4.95 a month or the professional version for $9.95 a month. Check it out.
PS: I don’t have an affiliate account with Feedjit. I just really like the widget.
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