Well, we already have a bunch of users. But after a wee bit of testing. I'm inviting everyone to sign up for their free trial of Performancing Metrics. Features are added weekly and we have a great developer working on it all the time.

Feedback is more than welcome. It's geared toward Mom and Pop Bloggers rather than large A-List type sites. It provides a ton of data, most of it useful.

"Performancing Metrics is a new and unique web analyzer that gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Many analyzers give good summaries, and Performancing Metrics is no different - but the similarities stop there. Performancing Metrics stands out with its refreshingly clean and simple interface, innovative features like Spy and RSS feeds, and an unrivaled per visitor level of detail. You also get real time stats, outbound link tracking, download tracking, and much much more." ~ About Performancing Metrics

My favorite part is the affiliate program. You will earn 20% of every payment made to us by any user who signs up through your affiliate link and eventually becomes a paying premium member. Additionally, there is a second tier commission of 5%, which means you will get 5% of any payment made to us by your referal's referals.

Head on over and sign in with your Performancing login

After a bit of work and some coordinating I'm proud to announce to Performancing Themes, free and ad supported themes for WordPress.

Our first theme was done by our very own Brian Gardner. Head on over to Performancing Themes and download the latest. Our head on over to wordpress themes in our navigation.

You can also get free support for the themes from the Performancing Community Forum. If you download and install it you can also get access to our Performancing Metrics Beta.

Feel free to leave comments if you are a designer and want to contribute, or have suggestions.

Just a quick note: that a sponsor has paid for this quick review. I've added in my own flare from experience. Feel free to offer feedback on the whole concept of paid reviews. I would have done this one anyhow but they hurried me along. I've also included along with a review some personal interjection on the whole typography issue.

I take a lot of inspiration from 'real world magazines' when I'm looking at design.

Update: Thanks for all the advice. This has been resolved painlessly.

I've had a big dilema this week. Someone ripped off a design I paid dearly for. They said they did it in admiration. But my investment has basically been watered down by the theft. That's what it is plain and simple. As probloggers we shouldn't have to deal with this. But alas we do.

This stuff has been happening so often these days I have no way to stay on top of it. In this case I've been laid back and haven't ripped into the person. In days past I would have.

But I'm stumped neither I,nor the designer are happy about it. And yet the person who ripped us off doesn't seem to understand what they've done.

Maybe because I'm so into design I can't understand it. But what compels people to take CSS modify it slightly and claim it as their own without attribution?

Maybe if I could understand the psychology of it, then it would help. But I merely can't and probably will never understand.

I need some advice. How should I proceed next? I'm still not happy after conversations, emails, and the like.

Let's say you have a site its doing roughly 750,000 monthly pageviews and continuing to grow onward and upward. And yet you are losing money. How do you monetize it. It's in a relatively unprofitable geeky niche. Therefore it can't make any money right?

When looking at any revenue stream you have to find out how to profit on a website regardless of its traffic. Every site has influece to some degree. Not only do I want to increase profitablity, but I also want to increase traffic 2 fold in the next 30 days.

For all those folks who submitted your site into the blog makeover reviews this is really going to help you build a blog whether from scratch or from your existing content base.

The thing that most bloggers do when creating a site is they undervalue it. By saying "Oh this is personal site therefore it doesn't have the same amount of value as a 'professional' publisher."

One of the host of mistakes professional bloggers make is not understanding the principles of being able to capitalize on marketing and monetization.

Do you have a blog sitting around that you want help with? Want to take it to the next level but don't know how? Well youre in luck. We are a panel of experts that's right all of us in someway whether design is your flaw, content creation, or no inbound links or marketing. We have all the tricks up our sleeves.

And we are sitting here waiting to help.

~ Ok that sounded way to much like a late night psychic hotline commercial. But seriously. I'm itching to help someone even if it's my own blog become successful or profitable. So toss me a blog below in the comments if you want some free advice and a simple makeover tour.

We will take one a week and spend one week giving you tips and sharing that with the community. It's a once in a lifetime chance to really launch your site into the next level of authority.

I've often wondered about the tagline of this website, "Helping Bloggers Succeed". First off I like to talk about success online and offline a lot. In fact its one of my favorite topics. When some folks talk online all they talk about is revenue. Revenue isn't success necessarily. And more of it doesn't always make you happier. All of us who blog have goals and dreams. That's what this is all about. Providing you with a community that will help coach you along into success. I like to pick on Adsense because a lot of people think success is driving people to your website and getting people to click on your ads. To me this is the last kind of success I need. Although if you can do that you will have some success. I hope I'm not offending the Adsense Driven Model. It's just that my goals and aspirations are different.

In some ways I'm a relationship blogger. In other ways I'm just a guy who wants to help other people reach their dreams and find a way to be successful. In a lot of ways I find joy in doing this. I like watching other people move on to bigger and better things.

To me not blogging would make me a lot more unsuccessful. I love communicating in this avenue. It helps me think and allows me to be more productive in relationship building. And that's my bottom line. That's how I measure success. The quality of relationship I have.

Let's get to know each other.

I've been talking to different people about various projects they are working on or are blogging about. I love this kind of interaction. Getting involved in other people's projects makes my day.

I want to open the comments up for people to share a project you are passionate about. It will give you an opportunity to share your project with our readers and allow you are readers to share some ideas on how to improve your projects.

First up is mine.

901am ~ New media news every morning
I feel really good about this site. It's 3 months old and starting to take off the ground. Our traffic is fairly steady and our readership is pretty active. I'm not focusing on revenue to much but it should be fairly profitable once we start monetizing more aggressively. What would you suggest doing differently with this site?

Ok, your turn.

One of the most frequent questions I'm ever asked by people who are unfamiliar with blogging is 'You make money doing this?'

It's a rather frequent question, at first it was hard to explain what I do. But now its getting easier. It's also getting easier and easier to build high quality sites. Mostly because I understand how to do it. My biggest mistake when I ventured out was to create a bunch of little sites and then losing focus on all of them and getting overwhelmed and giving up.

No need to panic though I tried and tried again. The best way to go about professional blogging is very simple. Find a niche you love.

I can't stress it enough. No need to fear there are plenty of untamed niches to be conquered. You just have to be creative. I'd love to share with you how to find your niche but I really can't so let me explain to you the tools I use to create a killer website that will elevate me from the status of blogger to professional publisher.

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First off the reason that SplashPress Media purchased Performancing was simply to give back to the community and to not see it die. We saw so much potential in the community who stood by Performancing even through the good times and the bad.

I am a blogger. I run multiple sites, and blogging is how I make my living. It is by far one of the hardest, and most enjoyable career paths to take. I travel a lot for enjoyment sake and am always willing to spend an hour or two coaching a blogger on how to monetize their site more effectively, or how to drive traffic to their sites.

Sorry for the slow updates here at first by me. I'm still feeling my way around drupal. Next, tackling a few existing technical problems. Although I think we've done that.

I've brought on Raj Dash, who've some of you know and a few others to share their stories in blogging. One of things I enjoy so much about Performancing is the original vision it had. To really help bloggers go to the next level. Publishing has always been a dream for me, Professional Blogging is another way for me to say Professional Publisher. It's hard work but its enjoyable.

The future of Performancing is bright. I'm in this for the long haul. Consistent ongoing community participation by a leader is the key neccesity. Currently Performancing is my only priority.

So what lies ahead?
Without overcommiting ourselves I'd like to find a way to help give back to the community. We are planning some free resources that will help grow the depth of the community including some fresh themes for WordPress powered blogs, as well as tackling the various issues with Performancing Metrics.

Performancing Partners was not part of the sale mostly because after analyzing the software I thought we could do better by licensing software or developing something from scratch.

Performancing Blogs and the front page.
Please continue to submit to your own blogs. I will be going through daily and promoting the best content to the front page. Hopefully their will be a nice balance of fresh helpful content.

What is Performancing's Number One
Bloggers are constantly on the lookout for ways to find new gigs. I'm working hard to rebuild Performancing Exchange so that bloggers can find more blogging jobs if they so desire. I dont want to tackle all of our goals at once. My mentality is tackling one at a time. But doing it the right way. Right now if you were me what feature, what service would you find the most value in having developed?

I look forward to being apart of the rich history of Performancing. My goal is to give of myself to help others become successful in blogging. Success is different for everyone. For me its about giving back to others. This is the most enjoyable aspect of blogging for me.

Welcome to the next generation of Performancing. The future is bright. We can make of it whatever we so desire.

SplashPress Media Acquires Performancing.com Community and Metrics Assets

International media group SplashPress Media acquires Performancing.com bloggers community and metrics assets.

New York,NY — February 14th,2007 — SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald, one of the oldest sites on the internet covering blogging news and new media, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Performancing.com including the bloggers' community and Performancing Metrics.

SplashPress Media operates and owns 30 blogs, and a variety of other online web properties. SplashPress Media has been online as a hosting company and a support agency for publishers for a few years before launching several blogs and acquiring others.

According to David Krug, "Over the last year Performancing has built up a large and loyal community of bloggers from all walks of life. They have created and provided tools and quality resources to bloggers and blogging communities. We wish to continue providing the blogosphere with affordable tools to help people join the new media revolution which is changing how we consume media. Nick Wilson, and the other Performancing founders rushed onto the scene and were quickly covered in top blogs such as TechCrunch, among others. They developed the Performancing for Firefox tool, and created a great portfolio of tools that I use to this day in my blogging. We look forward to carrying that vision forward and farther."

Performancing.com will continue to operate as a separate division of SplashPress Media.

To mark the launch of ChrisG.com, Chris Garrett, ex Performancing CTO and good friend of mine, has released a new, free eBook called Killer Flagship Content [pdf].

Having spent the last year working with Chris, im sure it will be Killer!

Let us know what you think....