Donation button on wrong side?? (and other secrets from the trials and errors of MCM)

Now that it is the weekend and I have time to bop around the net, I discovered this post written in July 09 by MCM at novelr. Not sure why I never found it before, but if I had read it before I set up my site, I probably would have done some things differently. I might have acted, for instance, on a fact I never would have imagined could be true, but MCM found out by experimenting: "a link in the right sidebar gets clicked 0.21% of the time. The same button in the left sidebar gets clicked 0.01% of the time."

Posted this for the benefit of others who, like me, didn't spot this until now. Read and glean.