{"id":589,"date":"2011-04-27T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:18:26","slug":"who-clicks-the-donate-link-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2011\/04\/who-clicks-the-donate-link-nobody.html","title":{"rendered":"Who clicks the Donate link? Nobody."},"content":{"rendered":"

The last release of Stop Spammers was released Monday. After a day and a half it was downloaded about 400 times. The donate link sends the user to Amazon where I can see the number of clicks. The Amazon stats are delayed a day or so. <\/p>\n

I carefully wrote, what I thought, was an earnest appeal to buy my book with the link. I politely allowed users to turn off the appeal once they had read it.<\/p>\n

So how many clicks did I get from the 400 or so downloads?<\/p>\n

Zero!<\/p>\n

I expect it will be downloaded about 5,000 times in the next couple of weeks, but I don’t expect any significant clicks on the Amazon link.<\/p>\n

There will be no more updates to any of my plugins. As much as I enjoy programming, I can’t keep fooling myself that there is a future in writing WordPress plugins.<\/p>\n

That’s all folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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