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Getting the wrinkles out

It takes a little while for every new version of my website to settle down and this was no exception.

The software I use these days is very good at handling the graphical presentation of the site but maintaining the links to the content has been more of a knife and fork job i including the use of FTP to get the files in the right folders. So apologies for those 404 errors.

There were also a few Mobile errors which Google picked up and I have fixed almost all of those which is handy because according to Google Analytics about 45% of my traffic now comes from mobile devices.

The tweeting campaign has actually benefited from Twitter's removal of the edit and re-tweet option as it forced me to organise them in a Word document for the daily cut and paste.

As you would expect from repetitive tweeting there is a steady modest response to each tweet presumably from occasional visitors to the various #tag streams I address but occasionally a re-tweet or favourite response will send the response through the roof. Twitter analytics has been most helpful in clarifying what is going on here.

I intend to sustain the Twitter campaign as long as the response warrant's it because it only takes a few minutes each day so I hope this is not too annoying to anyone.

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