Xatal

In order to improve this blog a bit, I’m going to be going through old posts this next week and fixing things up a bit. Seeing as it’s been months since I’ve written many of these posts, there are undoubtedly things that can be changed. I’ll check every post and make the following changes:

• Improve grammar/spelling/style.
• Update outdated information.
• Add links to more detailed and recent posts.
• Optimize appearances for the theme
• Add images when necessary

Seeing as Xatal has about 190 posts, this could take a bit. My goal is about twenty posts per day, let’s see how things go!

Highlights of May 2009:

• Overall, May was pretty consistent with traffic. Except for that initial spike, traffic held steady. Unfortunately, overall traffic has declined slightly since April, and April was a decline since March. Traffic isn’t bad at all, but I have been busy and haven’t been posting as much.
• The spike you see at the beginning of the chart was StumbleUpon traffic to how to search from the location bar in FireFox.
• 56% of traffic came from search engines, whereas only about 35% came from referring sites.
• The same posts as usual have been popular.
• Interestingly enough, four of my top five keywords relate to dorm necessities.

I’m sorry for the lack of posts this month — I’m hoping next month will bring much more time. I’m out of school in early June, so I’ll have way more free time!

In honor of summer vacation, this month’s poll will revolve aronud summer:

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As a quick way to better organize the major posts on this site, I’ve created the Resources page. There, I’ve sorted posts by category and by importance, so the posts that are most viewed should be easy to find at a quick glance.

For now, the posts you see are all from Xatal, but I plan to add relevant external links. If you have any suggestions, I’m open!

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Nate, from Debt-Free Scholar, posts monthly the best blog posts for the month, and he’s posted the results for March. My post about choosing a good cell phone company for college was one of the winners! Thank you!

His blog is definitely worth reading — he has tons of great posts for helping you to save money at college, as well as additional tips for being a college student.

Seeing as March is the month of college admission notices mainly, I figured the new poll should reflect that somewhat. Though most people probably haven’t applied, I think it might be interesting to see how many people have applied this year and are (maybe) waiting on a decision.

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Since seeing Nihar over at Nihar’s World do this, I’ve thought it might be fun to make monthly posts showing my stats as well. Although my stats aren’t nearly as impressive as his, perhaps you might be interested:

Page views by day for this last month, courtesy of Google Analytics

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