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June 1, 2005 By Mark Draughn Leave a Comment

Wow! The things that happen when you’re away from the blog for a day…

I just got a link from Slashdot, via an earlier Addict3d.org link.

That sent me over nine thousand visits on Tuesday.

Uh…Hi there everybody!

I think I’ve got to find out what 2MHost does if I hit my bandwidth limit. Do they charge me or shut me down? And which would I prefer?

This has produced a bit of a spike in my stats:

Sitemeter Statistics

Update: And those 9000 visitors earned me exactly 23 cents from Google Adsense. I don’t think Windypundit is going to be a profit-making venture…

(The low revenue is not at all surprising: I had the ads placed in a bad position. I was less interested in ad revenue and more interested in what Google thinks my site is about.)

Update: This is amazing. I’m getting visitors from everywhere:

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And check out the browser share. You know you must have a link from Slashdot when there are more people using Firefox than Internet Explorer.

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