Cheddarblog

As an experiment with October coming up, the Swiss_Mouse is removing all:

Google Adsense sidebar items
Embedded Google Adsense links (in new posts)
Banners: 1and1.com and Americanfone

He is going to see what if any effect this has on traffic, bounce rates, etc.
Sure he’ll miss the sweet cheddar…but ultimately does this affect the blog or not?
Also please note that

Blogrush […]

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Thanks to his meticulous budget tracking, the Swiss_Mouse can tell you he spend exactly $81.88 a week on eating out.   Now you might say that is an outrageous amount, but actually it really only represents about 1 sit down restaurant a  couple of fast food meals per week.   The Swiss_Mouse family has a lot of activities […]

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When the Swiss_Mouse heads out to the store, it’s for the necessities in life: Cigarettes, booze, toilet paper and cheese.
Mrs. Swiss_Mouse takes a different approach.  She’s into buying “staples” like milk, cereal, bread etc. B-o-r-i-n-g
Either way, the Swiss_Mice are “making” cheddar on the deal thanks to UPromise . 

UPromise is a way to “Earn college savings […]

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The Swiss_Mouse made a mistake in his previous posting about Tyler Cruz, internet entrepreneur. The Swiss_Mouse was also unclear in a particular statement, which could have led the reader to believe that Tyler Cruz was less of an internet entrepreneur than he truly is.
 

First the Swiss_Mouse got the dollar figures a little […]

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When the Swiss_Mouse recently ventured back into the realm of internet cheddar, he was but a shy and timid mouse. His kung-fu was not nearly as powerful as it had been. At one time, the Swiss_Mouse had made a few tasty morsels, but alas, those days were just a memory.
 
As the Swiss_Mouse explored […]

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Recently the Swiss_Mouse and Mrs. Swiss_Mouse were going to run some errands.  They were dropping off the young mouse-ling with Swiss_Mouse Sr. and Grandma Swiss_Mouse.
When allowed to pick where they would like to get some fast food to take to the grand-mice, they thankfully did not respond “Burger King”.  Sadly, they chose McDonald’s.  Swiss_Mouse Sr.  […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has tried over and over again to get Brian’s Threaded Comments to work with his Wordpress theme.  IE7 loses the first comment and Firefox overwrites some text.
GRRRRRR Swiss_Mouse apologizes for any inconvenience to his reader….or does he have more than 1?

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Others will read this blog entry and say “The Swiss_Mouse is an idiot!”  But, these people are all trying to make internet millions off of google ads and affliate sales.  HEY so is the Swiss_Mouse, but there are few John Chow dot com moguls or even the site TechCrunch mentioned in his latest post. 
The Swiss_Mouse presents […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has decided to try out Windows Live Writer.

The Swiss_Mouse found a link for on another blog and decided to try it for himself.  Installation was easy although the Swiss_Mouse got a bit confused initially when the install process asked about a blogging service.  But all it all everything went smooth.
The Swiss_Mouse doesn’t even […]

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The Swiss_Mouse was Stumbleupon‘d the other day. The Swiss_Mouse MUST investigate that site! In just one day the Cheddarblog received 349 pageviews and 222 unique visitors.  That might not be a lot for other sites, but for the Swiss_Mouse…well…it was pleasing.

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