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How the Google+ Project’s lack of Google Apps support increased my unique visitors by 700%

How the Google+ Project’s lack of Google Apps support increased my unique visitors by 700%

This blog does not generate thousands of visitors each day, much because it’s quite new and I have no real aspirations of making profit on it, I’ll admit that if I do make profit I won’t complain though. I’m doing this because I like what I do on a daily basis, and this blog is a great way to record this both for me and to help other people out. When I posted the Plaxo VS Soocial article there was a noticable increase of visitors. This was due to more retweets on twitter, attention from Plaxo themselves and more Facebook sharing than I ever had before.

The other day though, a much more drastic increase of visitors took place. This post is about how an article on one of Google’s major flaws and the neglect they sometimes show their Google Apps customers, paying or non-paying, increased my unique visitors with nearly 700%, atleast for a day. Read on…

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I have replaced Disqus with Livefyre comments

Livefyre square logo with black borderThe comments section below all of my articles have previously been powered by the Disqus comments system. It did what it was supposed to do, however, it looked a bit dodgy using the basic layout and their support when I needed it was downright…bad (I wanted to use a stronger word here, did you see that? ;) ).

I have been looking at Livefyre for quite some time before I decided to make the switch. The main reasons for switching to Livefyre are:

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