Sorry I’ve not kept the blog updated over the past week or two. Lots of “Life Gets Interesting” moments happening at the moment and interrupting me all over the place. You could make a film about my life and call it “Bagder, Interrupted”.

I’m not really as happy with the new site redesign as I thought I’d be, so I’m going to make a couple of changes. One of the first changes is that I’m going to be revising the placement of advertising on the site, and most likely chopping a lot of it off. What I’ll be doing instead is linking to specific deals in specific posts, rather than just taking up screen real estate with banner ads.

Also, instead of posting lots of deals in a single post, I’m going to start breaking them up into other posts. There are a couple of reasons for this:

• It allows me to go more in-depth into the actual deal instead of just listing a product, a price and a link. This way you’ve got some idea of what the deal is instead of having to click on the link.
• Deals will be posted as soon as they become live instead of by a set time in the morning (which was by 9am). This makes it easier for me to update the site through the day with deals I come across that post late (such as those at Buy.com).

I’ll be modifying the number of deals that I post to those that I think are actually of interest to regular visitors to the site (all twenty or so of you).

I’ll also be removing the click-through “[Read more ?]” splits from future posts; the main reason I had introduced them was so I could track individual views of stories. Being honest, they annoy me when I visit sites, so I want to get shot of them on my own site.

By making these changes to the posts, there’s going to be more posts going up throughout the day, which means that the front page, which currently shows seven posts, will end up being cycled through a lot faster. I’m changing the front page to show twelve articles instead. If you don’t already subscribe to the RSS feed, I encourage you to do so to allow you to stay up to date with all the posts instead of having to visit the front few pages.

Feedback is encouraged.

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