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Online Gear

March 30, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I have seen the Internet offer a lot of interesting stuff for sale, but this amazes me- police tactical gear! There’s everything from police mugs to baseball hats to tactical boots! See for yourself!

The prices are pretty good, actually! They also offer the Surefire flashlight, which is one of the best, I hear.

My sons would absolutely flip over this store. It was founded by police in Los Angeles, and has expanded to offer products to military personnel, professionals, and the public. The flashlights are a great deal…. no guns though! lol.

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It’s Nice Being an Award-Giver

March 30, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I gave Fida Abbott an internet award, but she rewarded me even more by telling me it was her first award given by a non-Indonesian! Woo! I am going down in Fida Abbott history! Check out her blog here. It’s a lovely blog, and I love her stories.

And Hercules Mulligan is proudly showing off his award at Alexander Hamilton Patriot. Nice job, Herky!

As for the others… I haven’t even told them about their awards yet, oops.

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Thank You Thank You

March 29, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I got an award! It comes from Elina at Immomsdaughter, a wonderful mommy blog from a lady raising two youngsters and a Big Kid in Malaysia.

Yippee! I have an Interesting Blog! I am pleased. Thank you so much for this honor, Elina. As a recipient of this award, I get to choose some winners!

Alexander Hamilton Patriot

The Handy Mom

Fida Abbott

Common Sense With Money

Frugal Dad

I’m sorry, I do not have any spectacular goodies to award you with– no bubble gum, no blue ribbons, not even used cisco equipment! But you get something better– you can put this button on your blog and give away some honors to your favorite bloggers.

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A Great Firefox Add-on

March 29, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I’m a BIG fan of the Firefox browser. It’s been having a few problems lately (usually happens after an update) and I think that my plugins may be going screwy on me. For some reason, Firefox won’t connect to the Internet when I use wireless. It’s driving me crazy! So I’ve been tinkering with the plugins. I hadn’t looked at their bank of plugins for a long time, and was surprised to see their “new look.” I was also surprised to be hundreds upon hundreds of plugins for everything to launching radio players to tips for acne treatment! Sheesh! It’s a bit much.

I did find a golden egg in the nest, though. I love this addon! It’s called Fancy Numbered Tabs and it simply does what it says– it gives your tabs little numbers so you can keep track of them. I always have a lot of tabs open and sometimes I get confused. It’s a nice addon.

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I’m Here, But

March 29, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I know I haven’t been blogging much here. I’m building a website (open house will be announced in the future). It’s taking up a lot of time and involves more writing than usual blogs do. I also have a LOT of writing assignments these days. So I apologize for the sparse postings! Go check out a few of my other blogs if you have a hankering to read.

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Web Analytics and You

March 27, 2008 — Mrs. Mecomber

I’m small-time blogger. I make a few bucks here and there, blogging reviews or adding some text links here and there. I’ve heard all the stories about bloggers like John Chow, who boasted recently of his $30,000 income for one month. One month! Incredible. I’d like to earn that. Who wouldn’t?

Running websites and blogs is becoming very high-tech. I’ve been trying to pay attention to my stats and search engine results, but I admit I am a real cheapskate– I use a little free web tracker. It only gives me information and stats for the first 500 visitors. I don’t think I’ll ever go “big time” for this blog, but stranger things have happened, so who knows! However, my home improvement blog and my travel blog are very popular. I am hoping that someday these blogs prove to be very successful. Lord knows, I spend enough time at them all day long!

So, I’m paying more attention to stats and information. Big-time webmasters use something called hosted web analytics. Now THAT’s what I’m talking ’bout! This is stat counter in hyperdrive!

Track and monitor the activities of every individual visitor to your website, web statistics, visitor system information, advertising campaigns, conversion tracking, and graphical statistics with the fastest growing web analytics provider in North America and the U.K. Knowing what your web page statistics are is the key to successful online business.

Iwebtrack is the best web traffic analyzer on the internet. Webmasters know that about 1/3 of Internet users block cookies, so stat counters aren’t always accurate. Iwebtrack uses javascript code to fix this problem. They also have a whole fully-loaded arsenal of other tools.

Thorough and detailed website and traffic monitoring
Analyze between PPC (pay per click) searches and natural results
Export reports to email or other formats
Affiliate program

Here’s a demo screenshot. Whoa!

Someday I hope to be able to get this successful. I do watch my stats and I do pay attention to what brings visitors to my blogs. If you have a blog and you either want to increase traffic and/or make money from it, this is a crucial component of blogging. Blogging is more than plunking down your personal thoughts and opinions; it’s become much more sophisticated, and if you want to rise with the tide, you have to branch out a little. Either that or hire a webmaster and expect to shell out tens of thousands. :-p Better to use cool tools like Iwebtrack.