Facebook Dumped Me (and my project) on Valentines Day

Posted by chris.whiteley

February 14, 2009

Facebook rejected me.

I thought we were friends. I though we were going to work together to make my luvbritney.com project successful. I turns out I was entirely wrong. Although we had a good run, things were just going to well. I thought everything was fine and then BAM! I get dumped. On Valentines Day!

Ok so things weren’t as bad as it seems. It’s just that Facebook decided that it didn’t want to run my ad for the Britney search engine anymore. Which I guess is fine considering that my $100 advertising credit would have probably run out tomorrow. I am just nervous because now I have to see if all of the advertising work I have done over the past week has been successful.

So now after coming back from a huge Valentines Day dinner, and being filled with wine, beer, rum and grappa, I have to somehow discuss the successes of my Luv Britney project. So here we go:

The Redesign:

I was looking through my Google Analytics stats to get some information about the people that come to my site. One of the firs things I noticed was that most of the users were viewing on a 1024×768 resolution. I decided to check out the site in that resolution and found that the site looked horrible. I decided that today I would revamp that site and make it look nicer in a lower resolution. I also had a few suggestions from the comment section of the previous post about this project.

apps: suggested quite a few items which I will prolly implement once the site takes off. I did add the share on Friend Feed button, as suggested, and instead of adding the iLike widget I added an Amazon widget that plays Britney songs and has the option to purchase the music.

Ren B.: Suggested that I add a Shoutbox, which I have added. I was quite surprised to see that people had actually used this function. I though I was going to have to make up a bunch of fake shouts to get things rolling. I turns out that I was wrong!

Another worry that I had had was when I checked my stats to see how many search queires had been done. Around 3:00 today there was only 3 queries done. According to my Analytics stats I was getting a lot more hits than what Facebook was sending my way. But the 3 queries had me worried. I though maybe all my stats were wrong and now that Facebook had cut me off, I would be getting no traffic at all. I checked the queries this evening and found that they are still on track. Hopefully when I check the Analytics stats tomorrow I will find that I am still getting a lot of traffic.

I will keep my fingers crossed while I sleep.

I am sure I have a lot more details to cover here, but most have been forgotten considered the “booze factor.” Tomorrow I should be able to share more details, or at least I can cover more in the comments section. So if anyone has any ideas for improvements, or questions about the site or the progress thus far please let me know and leave a comment below!

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