Eagle Eyed readers might have noticed a couple of changes that I made yesterday. Both changes are cosmetic, but should hopefully help the blog along a little bit.

Favicon

I made a favicon and added it. Simple change but does add a certain something I think.

It's supposed to be a graph highlighting that the blog is all about making money, testing, tweaking, keeping records and whatnot.

Why add a Favicon?

You can read more about favicons at wikipedia.  Basically they are little graphics which show up in the browser bar and in the favourites/bookmarks list.  They look nicer than the standard graphic, that's the only reason (for me) really.

Top 5 Commenters

I also added a "Top 5 Commenters" widget in the sidebar of the homepage of the blog. I've seen this on many blogs, and always thought "must do that". I actually got around to it.

My version works on a rolling 30 day basis - hence any posts made more than 30 days ago are disregarded for the count. This means that the goodness of link-juice is spread evenly at all times.  I also took out Oli's, mine and Dave's post counts as well - it's all for the commenters, baby!
I hope that this little widget will do two things;

1. Reward those readers who are making good comments, with a nice PR rated linkback to their site.
2. Hopefully entice more people to post good comments…

What I hope it doesn't lead to is crapola comments such as "hi, nice site" - I won't be letting these through

I plan on making more changes in the near future, so if anything goes wrong, you'll know why.