Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Few days ago, Paul Denise and I were talking about his remedial class when he noticed the red spots in clustrmaps.com while I was checking my total stats. When I told him that it's the location of my blog's visitors, my son couldn't believe there are people visiting my site!

Today, I received email from ClustrMaps Support Team asking me to adjust daily updates to weekly:

"The current number of displayed visits to your site is 10948 which exceeds our internally applied database limit of 10000 for daily updates with yearly archives. We have therefore amended the frequency of your map updates to: weekly."

The ClustrMaps Support Team also mentioned:

"Please visit http://clustrmaps.com/admin/ to change frequency of updates and archives, and be sure to check the FAQ page for further explanations."

As I logged in to my ClustrMaps Admin page, I have noticed that they are offering contest and giving away a free ClustrMaps+ upgrade. Well, I find it fun and challenging if I will submit an entry to be featured as ClustrMaps User Of The Month, so I could get more attention from those ClustrMaps users who didn't know I exist here on cyberspace...

I have rewritten my entry due to power failure. The first one was better than this but, I was upset they disappeared as I logged back online!

ClustrMaps is best displayed at the bottom of my blog's SEARCH field to show off locations of readers visiting it. When there is something new in the blogosphere, I made sure I had an account with them to boost my blog's presence. If you didn't see one type of blogging tools displayed in my site, chances are, I didn't like the quality and type of their service!

Most of my site visitors get new ideas from me. And I will appreciate if you could award us referral points just like what blogexplosion.com provide. Also, sitemeter displays IP addresses when I mouse over the location of site visitor. Do you think you can provide the same? When I first saw your clustrmaps image, I had an impression that you're somehow related to sitemeter due to similarities of map display.

Many thanks and more power to all people behind Clustrmaps! I don't mind if you will make me famous by quoting my URL, nick name, and story.

As I emailed my entry to feedback @ clustrmaps.com, I remembered when my son came closer to the monitor and asked out of curiosity why dots are bigger than others. I told him it indicates more people are visiting my blog in that particular location. Half convinced, he asked me, "What do they want from your site?" I just smiled and told him, "They love to make red dots in ClustrMaps bigger!