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The Labrigger audience has been steadily growing since it launched. Many, many more people visit Labrigger in a month than attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting (web traffic aficionados, that’s unique visitors, humans not robots, and they average several pages per visit, and most are return visitors).
This is great, but bandwidth costs money, so two things happened:
(1) A site redesign that decreases bandwidth for the main page (down to a third of what it was with the old design), and makes it easier to quickly survey recent posts.
(2) Ads. These are from Google’s Adsense program. It’s a piece of cake to add them, and that is appreciated, but they’re not the best fit for the site. Labrigger might have different ads in the future, but editorial content will not be compromised (e.g., no posts for pay).
Labrigger is happy to bow to reader demands, so if everyone hates these changes, comment below. As far as traffic is concerned, it increased again this week (more than the usual increase, actually), so the changes might not be bad things.
Looking good. Love the site as always. Impressed you got Adsense. Google flagged BrainWindows for copyrighted content and wouldn’t let ads run. Although I bet you could do better with direct ad placement from a few microscopy companies… Would take too much time to arrange that though.
That might happen here as well. It’s all Fair Use, but many companies don’t dedicate the resources to make that determination on a case-by-case basis. If it happens, Labrigger will stay. It’s not terribly expensive to run.
Thanks for the positive feedback.
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