Links and Minifeatures 06 01 Friday

Traffic: May set new daily traffic records twice: 7279 visits on the 14th, then 7319 on the 16th. It also set a new record for monthly visits: 144,499 visits from just over 41,000 unique visitors. Thank you all for stopping by.



Page views went way up in the last two days of the month. They had been running about 10000 or so, and suddenly skyrocketed to over 20k. To correct a possible misconception, it doesn't help me to run your normal searches here, although you're welcome to do so. But if you're like me, every once in a while you're looking for some commercial good or service. If you come here to run those searches and click on a paid advertiser when you do, I get the occasional ten cents or fifty cents or dollar - and sometimes a little more - off that. This offsets some of the money I spend keeping the site running. (What I really want, of course, is people coming to me for a loan or real estate transaction. Every time someone says they come to me off the website, not needing the advertising it would have taken to get one client in the door has effectively paid the site expenses for a couple months, but if you're not in California for a loan or San Diego for a sale or purchase, that's not going to work.)