Apologies for being a week late in posting this but here is the link to my presentation I recently gave at the EB uni in Sydney.

The feature on "sexy banners" I posted back in early January was the #1 reason Bannerblog had over 150,000 visitors last month. We also did over 800,000 page views. This woudl have been more if my previous server didn't collapse under the weight of the traffic.

That said traffic to the site has been up with a steady stream of comments too. Submissions are way up with over 10 a week coming in.

Here's a graph of the traffic since tracking it on Google Analytics.

We were slipping there for a few months.

I found out about the AdAge Power150 which ranks the top marketing blogs worldwide (English language though) in January and annoyed that Bannerblog wasn't listed. After a quick email we are now on the list but at a dismal rank of 165. Which I'm told is down 107 from the day before? Our stocks going terrible too :)
Update: Ok this list automatically updates and we're now ranked a respectable 60. I now have another stat to check everyday.

The top blogs are an interesting mix with Seth Godin's blog taking top spot. Which is what you'd expect from a celebrity with a book publishing career. I have two of his books myself.

While it might look easy, keep this website updated and functioning take quite a bit of work each week. To help keep the wheels turning we need the support of sponsors. I'm happy to say that Adobe has come on board for February as sponsor so a big thanks to Adobe for helping keep updated regular.

Britney Spears locked herself in out server room and started causing havoc. So the site was down for 12 hrs today. We apologize for the inconvenience.

You'll need to clear your cache and reload if it's looking a little funny still. We have moved it over to a new (Britney Proof) host. Those in Australia will notice a significant speed increase in page loads.