Happy Birthday!
Ajith | Apr 2009 | Updates From Us
Today D$ completed one year in the blogosphere! It’s, incidentally, the 200th post as well. If you browse through the archives you will see that though the blog was launched and made public on April 14th last year, I had backdated some content to have some base posts while launching exactly an year ago.
It’s been a tremendous journey, I can’t believe that I actually did write 200 posts with all that work pressure around and family responsibilities going up further. All these have caused my blood pressure to increase to dangerous levels but the excitement prevails 
I hope to gradually build it to a much better professional blog this year though I had gone down a bit on my ambitious goals.
Recent Changes
I have done the following changes to the blog recently :
- Reduced the number of AdSense blocks and most ads now appear only for search visitors (experimenting to see if that increases the eCPM as Luis mentioned a while ago)
- I now six 6 125×125 banner ad slots now as there was some sudden interest in the last one month, probably due to the lower rates
- Took out all advertising options except reviews and 125×125 banners (I had 468×60, Leaderboards, links etc) to simplify the offering
- Post frequency will be mostly one per three days going forward
What am I doing now?
Well, I am taking a week long vacation in my remote village town in Kerala (southern most coastal state in India). My family is visiting my mother after a gap of 2 years and it’s the festive time right now (The Vishu festival of Kerala). I am having a very good time with absolutely no Internet connectivity nearby (this post is being written from the only Internet cafe in town centre) and pampering myself with some good home cooked food. Yesterday I went fishing the way I used to do in my childhood days – with a handmade fishing rod and stuff. Believe me, I managed to catch 8 small and medium sized fishes and had them for dinner last night. And on 13th we had a the best possible goat meat as one domestic goat was slaughtered and shared by four families. Some more interesting things are yet to come like the famous pearl spot fish curry that you can find only in this part of the world and in the backwaters of Kerala.
Happy Vishu for people from my state and I will be back to blogging next Monday!
(PS:- Please expect delays in comment moderation and replying)
Happy Birthday DS!
Where’s the partyyyy? 
“”pearl spot fish”" Would like to know more about this. I am a fan of fish here in Mauritius since I lived near the seaside some years ago..but never heard that? Send us the recipe
Enjoy your holiday.
Woa Man. Happy Birthday to D$ !
I really appreciate you taking out that link ads above the content, good thinking
And where in Kerala are you..? I am from Perumbavoor in Cochin. Any chance that you will be here till may? We have a BarCampKerala coming up on May 3rd, will you be able to make it..?
Details: http://www.barcampkerala.org/blog/
Happy vishu to you too! Hope you are having a nice time with family and friends.
Happy Birthday to $shower. I am amazed at the level of maturity that you have in writing the posts. I am trying to learn consistency from you. Have fun in Kerala.
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Dear Ajit,
Wish you a belated Vishu and Happy birth day to D$.I am sure you will deliver a lot of great posts in future too.
BTW you taken us to Kerala through your post,I really miss my home state:-(
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Great Ajith. Happy Birth day to Dollar $hower
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Congrats all around and enjoy the time off!
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Happy Birthday
Hope you get many many more of them…
congrats Ajith for completing one year in blogosphere…………..Hope coming years will be even more successful……………….Nice to read that u are having a blast in ur hometown ……………have a great vacation and Happy vishu to u and ur family……………
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Good luck with your vacation (if I may call it that) :p
Its quite astonishing to know that you have written 200 posts in a years.
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Haapy bithday to dollarshower ,sorry for late reply
enjoy your holidays and come with more SEO posts ,waiting for ur posts.
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Enjoy the vacation .
and Happy Vishu .. though i am not from your state.
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Happy Birthday DollarShower!
DS is one of favourite blogs in the niche. Hope you rocks in the future to become one of the famous blogger out here.
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Hey man congrats for your 200th post and for your blog anniversary.. You have a long way to go .. Hope to hear more from u soon..
good – I’m the first one to congratulate birthday boy [DollarShower dot Com ] – as they say many many happy returns of the day.
Belated bday wishes, keep rocking
Ajith how is the experiment with ecpm going any improvements?
Happy Blog Birthday! And I hope you had a wonderful (much deserved) vacation.
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@Kurt, Haha… the party is all over and I had a great time back in my village town. As for the Perl spot fish from Kerala, I could not even find a pic for it on Google image search. But try out this amazing recipe based on perl spot if you can (Also this video). I am a big freak when it comes to fish (fresh water, sea as well as backwater variations) and sea food.
@Arun, thanks for the feedback on the ads. Yep, I had a great time in my hometown (A small village called ‘Annamanada’ in Trichur district of Kerala). Sorry buddy, I could not get more than a week’s leave from work and hence couldn’t meet many people… of course, I would miss those bloggers meets as well. Hope you had a great Vishu.
@SK, thanks buddy. I am glad that I am able to motivate a few people
though when it comes to consistency, probably I am not the person 
Well, it’s again due to other priorities.
@George, thanks for your wishes. And man, you should visit the ‘God’s own country’ at least once a year! Not many other places can boast the natural beauty, greenery and sparkling ground water quality as we have
And of course sea food as well…
@Harish, @Dennis, @Rads, thanks for the wishes folks.
@Nagraj, thanks man… A few people like you kept me going
And congratulations to you too on completing one year. We both started off at the same week right?
@Richael, thanks. 200 posts was the original target for the first year at the rate of roughly 16 posts a month. As I mentioned above, the post frequency is likely to come down during my second year
And yes, it was an amazing vacation and refreshing break!
@Venkat, thanks man… I shall try to write more SEO posts…
@Chetan, thanks buddy… More than the festival itself, it was a very good 1 week break to recharge myself.
@Lax, I am thankful to you all who consider D$ as a good blog in this niche
Without timely help from people like you, things wouldn’t have been possible. As for becoming a famous blogger 
, I wish I could do more but unfortunately I am more of a programmer than blogger…
@Harsh, @Shanker, @Anish, thanks for the birthday wishes folks
@Luis, not much of improvements yet on the eCPM rates buddy. In fact, it has gone down a bit. This gives me an indication that some of the direct visitors were clicking the ads as well? Anyhow, let me give it some time. Also, due to my breaks, the traffic was low as well.
@Kim, thanks for the wishes
And yes, I badly needed this vacation
Thank you all once again!
Ajith,
It was a Great journey in this 1 year. Congratulations for the 1st Birthday of DollarShower.
Hope you come up with more interesting posts especially on SEO and also conduct contests.
Congratulations again and Happy Blogging!
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Sorry for being late. Congrats on completing one year. All the best for the future
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Ajith, Congrats. Belated B’day wishes to DS. 200 posts in one year is a good achievement. Keep up the good work.
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@Nihar, @Madhur, @Pras, thanks pals
I shall try to bring in more on SEO and blogging. As for the contests, well… I do not want to overdo it – perhaps once a year…
Congrats Ajith. You’ve done a wonderful job on your blog. I’ve learned a lot about blogging from your articles. You’ve always pointed me in right direction when I reached out to you for any clarifications/questions. I sincerely appreciate all your help.
I wish you all the best in reaching all your 2nd year blogging goals.
Managing Full-time Job, personal life and blogging is not not a easy thing. You are doing a fantastic job.
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@Ramesh, thanks
I am glad that some of the posts here were useful to you. I see that The Geek Stuff is on the way to become a leading blog in the Linux-DB niche…
As I mentioned sometime back, the second year goals were reduced mainly due to the other aspects in life but I will continue to blog