Some of you may know that I run a slew of blogs and websites. I was once asked, how do I know if my site is generating traffic, where do they come from and how would I know how they managed to come to my site? Well, I have implemented hit counters on each of my blog and website to track my traffic so that I could analyze my data and try to improve on it. By the way, I found out that the current “hot” keyword is “iPhone wallpaper”.

Installing a hit counter is pretty simple and it is free too. Yes, I use free hit counters because I do not see the rational in paying for one when I can get a free one that is just as good, or even better!

Hit Counter Expert has plenty of hit counter styles to suit the layout of our blog or website that we could use for free. Besides looking great and fitting, the hit counter from Hit Counter Expert is able to track our visitors in real time and allows us to analyze the detailed statistics so that we can see the behavior of our visitors. What are the popular pages and how long do they stay at our site? You know, as a webmaster, it is our aim to keep each and every visitor on our site as long as possible so knowing what works and what doesn’t is vital information that we could deduce from a hit counter.

I am sure you know by now that I like to play online poker. To be frank, I don’t know too much about it but learn as I go along. I know it is bad but then I don’t plan to be a professional poker player. I just like to play online poker occasionally when I have the time.

However, I do like to read all about Poker and I definitely could do with some poker tips and tricks. Another thing I like reading about is the lives of professional Poker players. I understand that there are professional poker players who travel to the world’s casinos to play and they could earn millions of dollars a year. I mean, WHOA! That’s a lot of money just “playing”!

This morning, I was told of a fairly new blog on Poker, so new that the administrators have yet to edit the default blogroll, which aims to bring the world of poker to us in a blog. Although there are only a handful of articles, I have been told that the authors will be publishing more interesting articles on everything Poker. I have already bookmarked this blog. If you are a Poker lover, you should too.

Just when I thought that I am making good progress with Double N, despite the glitch of a couple of days ago with A, I and all publishers of Double N received the news that they are rolling our exclusive membership for people who will only publish advertisements through this local company only, and not through any other advertisement brokers from South East Asia. Can I say poor baby Nuff?

I wonder how many people will go exclusive. I know that A also had plans to go exclusive before the debacle but now, they have to put it on hold unless they can come up with a deal that is almost impossible to pass up and see through with it.

I know that a lot of publishers are mad but do we really want to restrict ourselves of future opportunities. Yes, we may be paid higher or have a higher chance of winning in contests but if you don’t carry balls now, you also won’t carry balls even if you are exclusive and that would also mean that you will be at the bottom rung of the 100% of the exclusive publishers. Won’t that amount to the same thing?

Right now, being exclusive may mean that we are excluding three other companies only but we never know. Perhaps a better one will come along soon? I have already implemented new Double N ad codes on my blogs so I hope it will somewhat compensate what I will be losing from opting out of the exclusive programme.