Sometimes I think a blog is not the best platform for documentation. It’s a bit unstructured but I like having the date articles were published as documentation soon goes out of date.

So here are some of the figures collected by Google Analytics over the past year. I’m not sure there’s any really reliable stats systems, but Google Analytics relies on the client running Javascript so it’s probably as good as it gets.

In the past 12 months there have been around 121,000 visits, with just over 75,000 from unique IP addresses. Pretty good I think for a small blog about VOIP! The traffic is growing month on month. The busiest days are weekdays, with a slight drop off at the weekends.

There are a good proportion of visitors that return to the site. with over 46,000 IP visitors returning. Some of the how-to’s are quite long and I’m sure people have to keep re-reading to figure out exactly what I meant!

A huge proportion of the traffic comes form Google, with other search engines way down the list. This shows just how dominant Google are in the field of search.

And I guess not surprisingly most of my viewers are not using Internet Explorer. With Firefox top and Google Chrome second in the choice of browsers. However, Google Chrome has become more popular just looking at later months, rather than back over the previous year.

So my plan is to keep writing more (hopefully!) interesting posts and we’ll see what the visitor numbers look like in another year!

• CentOS 5.7
• Asterisk 1.8.7.1
• FreePBX 2.9
• A2billing 1.9.4

For more information please see the website here – http://sysadminman.net/sysadminman-freepbx-a2billing-hosting.html

So far I’ve only used the basic e-mail to SMS but there a comprehensive API so you can integrate sending SMS messages in to your application.

The price is pretty competitive but, for me at least, the most important thing is reliability. I’ve only sent around 75 SMS messages so far but there have been no problems at all, and delivery was very quick.

There are also related services such as – inbound SMS messages, short-code numbers and MMS messages.

Check them out here – www.txtlocal.co.uk

Thank you for your support!

Matt.

If you don’t know what Sitelinks are they’re the direct links that come up under some websites in Google search results, link this -

You can’t pay for them, and you don’t request them, Google generates them automatically when it considers your site is ‘popular’ enough.

Also, according to Google Analytics the SysAdminMan Blog receives around 20,000 pageviews and 7,000 unique visitors per month.

It can definitely take some getting used to, but once you’ve got the hang of it you won’t want to switch back to a normal on-screen keyboard.

There is an open beta at the moment so why not sign up and give it a go - www.swypeinc.com/index.html

This is provided by Google Translate and this plugin for WordPress.

Very cool. I hope the translations make sense!

I used an iPhone 3GS for a year and synced my podcasts using iTunes. It was OK but as with everything in iTunes it was clunky and temperamental.

Since I’ve had my HTC Desire I’ve been using BeyondPod. It’s currently £4.36 in the Androind MartketPlace and, I think, definitely worth it.

It will sync subcribed podcasts over WiFi so no need to hook it up to your PC. There’s a good playlist screen showing either all podcasts or just those from a particular feed. It also shows how much of a podcast you’ve listened to.

It’s got good podcast clean-up and retention settings allowing you to just retain the latest podcasts from each feed. You can also group your feeds in to different catagories.

If you’re looking for some interestng tech podcasts to listen to then check out -

Windows Weekly – http://twit.tv/ww

Security Now – http://twit.tv/sn

Mike Tech Show – http://mikenation.net

Geek News Central – http://www.geeknewscentral.com

VoIP Users Conference – http://www.voipusersconference.org

FLOSS Weekly – http://twit.tv/FLOSS

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