Feb 10 2009
Internationally geeking
I am slightly obsessed with my today.com stats. I check a few times a day how many hits I have and where they’re coming from. I’m always most interested with my search results, and have had a few surprises!
I knew my most popular post was the one I made on wedding cakes a while back, followed by the Geek Tattoos and DIY vinyl decals. These were picked up by a few places, so it makes sense that their google rankings are higher.
What does get me is some of the searches that do lead to my blog! Geek lover for one, and web geek. They’re surprising because they’re so general. Tattoos not to get leads to my geek tattoo post, and made me laugh. When geeks get tattoos also leads to it, but that makes sense. However two searches that lead to my blog which entirely confuse me are you step in the stream but the water has moved on and the ataris “what can i said”. Anyone care to shed some light on those?
Also interesting is the broad range of google nations that lead to me! Just in the past week I’ve had PT, IT, UK, CA, SK, KW, RO, GR, SG, PL and UY (Portugal, Italy, UK, Canada, Slovakia, Kuwait, Romania, Greece, Poland, and Uruguay). Yay for the World Wide Web!
I’m uber obsessed with my stats. It’s bad. I check multiple times a day - and my feedjit is my homepage so I always can look at what new people have visited as soon as I log on.
I’ve had 61 different countries visit my blog since January 1st - that just blows me away!
Cheers
I like to read about the stat stuff too! I’m still learning how to follow it, but it’s way cool. :)
I’m pretty much obsessed with the stats as well, and occasionally look at the searches and even track them backwards.
I think my personal favorite was a week ago, with–and I am not making this up–”if somebody put their hands on our shoulder is our height will get automatically shrink”. Which I couldn’t resist clicking on the original Google link for; apparently this got the searcher to my Generic Villain post on elder evils. Go figure.