8 September, 2019
Congratulations Ukraine Today .org, we have our first 1,000 visitors and we have almost 10,000 hits. Not bad for just over one month. Thanks to everyone for your participation and support of Ukraine, where ever you are! Here is from just yesterday…
Slava Ukraini~~!!
Well done redders! How do you glean that information?
All the info is in the admin section containing stats for the site. They are only available to admin unfortunately.
Can you see our IP’s, names and locations? Can WordPress?
No personal information is shown in the admin section. Not even email addresses, except for email followers.
So does WordPress harvest the country locations from IP’s, or some other method?
I have no idea how wordpress collects the info. This link might provide more answers.
https://wp-statistics.com/privacy-and-policy/
Disqus had a security breach a while back. FYI from wiki:
‘In 2013 a Swedish group called Researchgruppen obtained and exposed a large number of anonymous Disqus identities through the application programming interface. The group cooperated with the Bonnier tabloid Expressen, who subsequently visited some of the commentators in their homes, confronting them with allegedly racist, misogynic, and derogatory sentiments. Researchgruppen said their database contained millions of comments from Disqus users around the world who are at risk of de-anonymization. In March 2014, Expressen and Researchgruppen won the investigative reporting award Guldspaden.’
I think WordPress is a lot more secure than disqus ever was. I have run wordpress sites for years, never has a problem. Of course if a hacker was determined no site would be 100% secure.
Do you know about advertising? Seems we should have received an August statement by now. Also, since most of our traffic seems to be coming from WP, I wonder if there is something else we should do with Google or Bing?
Not sure, I will check it out.
This is all I could find. Seems we need to install Jetpack.
https://jetpack.com/features/traffic/ads/
I believe we have all of it so maybe I just need to chat with them sometime. I’m trying not to hire a Consultant 😉 here is from the Ads page…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f1c5b8afafe4882c889363887de911787e9353e2d1fd27fb5b73460674b23095.png
Just found this.
Eligibility
Q: I applied to WordAds. When will it be available to me?
A: Our advertisers have a minimum traffic requirement. Once you reach the level they’re looking for, your application will be automatically sent to them for evaluation.
Q: What is the minimum traffic requirement?
A: A site generally needs thousands of pageviews each month to earn meaningful revenue.
Thanks. The key word here is, “application”. Everything is automatic on WP, I don’t remember any application unless they are referring to our site. The traffic requirement apparently isn’t a problem here.
They are very vague about the number of views needed to generate money.
Yeah, and I know that they don’t actually pay until you make $100 so I guess it’s safe to say we’re not making it yet, lol. I was just curious about an August statement. Heck we got one for July!
What is strange, it says Jetpack let’s you turn off wp ads, yet they still appear. Or did you not turn them off?
No I don’t believe I turned them off. This is all new to me. I think the Jet Pack is the widget for WP. I also bought the Google package which I thought included ads. I just feel like I forgot something.
Jetpack is a plugin. It has it’s own dashboard, but I think only you have access to it.
Aha, I was wondering that.
Yes, they use IPs. Most sites do. I have a danish SIM and location turned off, so it’s obvious they use our IPs.
Thank you but I haven’t done much. As usual its guys like you who deserve the credit. I am still busy at work and spend a lot of time weeding out the Kremtrash that gets through on the Reader page. We don’t want any of our readers to think we’re connected to that stuff.
So far we are getting around 90 visitors a day, 350 views a day, about 30 new viewers a day, and we run about 600 ads a day. Not sure how it all translates but those are the stats.
Most visitors are coming from WP instead of Google or Bing which is interesting. I wish it was the other way around.
I feel flattered. Seems the german Gestapo and their ISIS buddies are sniffing on any tree i piss against… 😂
Anyway, we have not gained too many commenters…
Disappointing is the low number of views from Ukraine. And interestingly no views from Russia…
Yes, I had hoped that English speaking Ukrainians like gmab would become regulars. It is a great pity that hordes of putinazi troll vermin are out there 24/7 glorifying their murderous nazi rodent on literally hundreds of sites, yet Ukrainians and their western supporters are still indifferent.
One thing I find interesting is Canada has about twice the views as from the USA, which has 10 times the population. Goes to indicate the basic inward look of Americans. Don’t care as long as their boat is not rocked.
The U.S. media is terrible with international news. On the contrary, Ukraine considers it a priority.