Q1 2009 Wrap up

The first quarter of 2009 has passed, so I thought I'd share some of the highlights of the last three months.

We've had more hits than ever before, hitting 800 on March 24th!

The VBA Search Engine hit 375 sites (click here if you'd like to become a volunteer contributor).

There were 50 posts and 76 comments/trackbacks. The page with the most comments was Excel to Twitter, with my Random Data Generator announcement coming a close second.

I've also seen some hits from Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of Microsoft's browser.

Top Referral Sources:

I'd to thank and send some link love to the following sites that top out the list of referring sites for Q1:

Chandoo — check out his interview with John Walkenbach
Poer from ExcelVBAMacro — see his latest post Delete Rows based on certain date
John Walkenbach — his Excel feeds list
Outlookcode / Sue Mosher / Eric Legault — the forums are very useful
Debra Dalgleish — read her latest Excel Twitters post
Jon Peltier — follow the fascinating Does Excel Suck discussion
Daily Dose of Excel — learn how to bump emails in this post

Plus some new friends:

NewtonExcelBach — check out Doug's VBA sorting function.
SmittyPro — read Smitty's Automating Data Entry with Data Validation Lists post
Jacob from Fake Name Generator, who graciously linked to the RDG add-in from his site

Kumo?

I saw a bunch of hits from Microsoft's new search engine, Kumo. I can't access it yet, but Microsoft employees can. Does this mean that Microsoft employees are testing out their search engine by searching for VBA code?

Add-Ins

The add-in download traffic was brisk, both from here and from download.com. Here is the breakdown:

January

ShipTrack – 53 downloads
Data Filter Tool – 24 downloads
ShipTrack UI – 17 downloads
SheetPicker – 10 downloads

February

Random Data Generator – 320 downloads
ShipTrack – 251 downloads
Post To Twitter – 150 downloads
ShipTrack UI – 67 downloads
SheetPicker – 47 downloads
Data Filter Tool – 34 downloads
Amazon Ad Link Generator – 18 downloads
Twitter From Outlook – 13 downloads

March

Random Data Generator – 347 downloads
Data Filter Tool – 195 downloads
ShipTrack – 178 downloads
Post To Twitter – 152 downloads
SheetPicker – 87 downloads
Amazon Ad Link Generator – 47 downloads
VB.NET Bingo Number Generator – 19 downloads
Twitter From Outlook – 12 downloads

Visit the Add-Ins page to download any of these add-ins.

Jon Peltier announced the Advanced Excel Conference for this year will be happening in June. If you want to learn more about Excel and how to use VBA, I strongly recommend you attend.

And for you, the reader, who deserves the most thanks for continuing to support this blog with your visits and comments, there will be more VBA code posted here on the blog, as well as some new pages on the static site. I'm also planning another, better code contest with bigger prizes. Stay tuned!

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