Once again I’m hoping to find out who’s a search engine and who’s an actual reader. I know some of you are long-term blog-stalkers and you’d rather chew out your own tongue than actually sign in (a surprising number of you), but I’m hoping you’ll reconsider. I’m just curious. Again. Who reads this stuff.
I get a lot of search engine hits as I’m sure everyone with a blog does. If you have any traffic at all you start collecting rank with the engines, and I’m pretty high up there for some bizarre searches. But that’s another story.
I also wonder how many hits are from spiders just looking for space to spam.
Anyway, my tracking is great for counting hits and making educated guesses where they’re coming from, but it’s really not that helpful as far as who is actually wandering through. I’m curious how many hits are actually people coming here to see what’s new. On purpose.
So, if it won’t kill you, just say hi. Chime in. Leave your mark. Piss on the fire hydrant. Shake hands. Err… wash your hands after pissing on the fire hydrant, then shake hands.
And to make it worth your while I’ll upload a whack of pictures for your perusing enjoyment. But you go first.
Also: happy Friday!
I am the angel on your shoulder ;o) hehe. What are you doing up so late on a Thursday night? Wait, I’m up later than you! I’m just saying hi cuz I have somehow become a regular reader/blog-stalker. I don’t think I’ve ever actually met you unless through SPEC, but I first discovered your online world through Davin’s site, which I discovered by starting to stay home on Friday nights and having a chill evening listening to the awesome show that is Resonance while surfing the web. So… hi!!! and thanks for all the interesting and entertaining reading!!
COMMENT:
I was told that if I came by here 1000 times, an iguana would appear on my screen and do something outrageously funny.
But then I just had too much fun anyways.
I’m just your average blog stalker =). Started reading it after randomly clicking on Davin’s HOOJ list of blog friends. So there you go!
*S*
I’m here. Sometimes I chime in. Every so often I piss on the fire hydrant. I do wash my hands though.
I think I’ve met you. Not sure though.
I have washed my hands in the past. It was kind of fun.
um… hi.
present, and accounted for… but you knew that
Hello all! Thanks for saying hullo. I’m meeting new folk already. Hawt! Thanks for coming. I hope I manage to keep you entertained.
Meanwhile, my tracking says I’ve had 45 hits or so since posting. Seven hellos, forty-five hits. Hmmm…
[shrug]
hi
As I’ve told you many times before, I read your blog regularly I just never leave my mark. So here’s proof. See…I do keep up with your life.
Aka Mrs.A the younger. I check your blog as part of my daily routine…on rare occasions I’ll post a comment, but mostly I enjoy reading the flame wars. Always good for a chuckle ;)
fixy ‘remember personal info’ button. More people will comment.
Bud.
I mean gurton.
Damn.
Here!
(*waves to Cara*)
Yes, I do have to get the personal info memory thingy fixed. Juuuuuudd!?
And apologies to Mrs A, the Younger, because life is far too short to put up with such grossly limited intellects as “bud”, who, assuming he could find his way to a polling station, would doubtless vote for Bush and consign the world to limitless conflict and profit for a few insider corporations at the continuing expense of the uneducated masses of which he is obviously part of. I just won’t play host to such infantile mentality. No flamers here. Sorry.
But a heartfelt thanks to those whom I haven’t spoken to directly before. Thanks for saying hi, and thanks for reading. Keep giving me your input.
Incidentally, 75-ish hits (counting my own) and 14 comments (again, counting my own). Assuming that counts for about 75% of my average hits and readership that would give me about 20 actual regular readers. Which is, I guess, about where I’d peg my ego. So maybe that’s not far off. By all means chime in and rock the stats a little.
So that means that by approximately a factor of 3 the majority of my hits are from search engines and spiders. Also not too surprising. That’s how we build readership from total strangers. davin can’t supply me with all my readers. That’s why I drop references like Hal Jordan. Google and such will pick these up and throw some new blood my way. This is how I picked up Raven from Vegas and so forth.
I’d love to become known worldwide as an authority on whatever, but the truth is I don’t know much about much that isn’t at least philosophically connected to me, myself & I. All I can do is tell you my opinion and challenge yours. That’s my whole purpose out here. Provoke.
Evidently I do a good job. =)
So. So as long as you keep provoking me to think I’ll keep doing the same in reciprocity. Send me on a quest, and I’ll see what I can make of it. Put me on the trail, and I will form an opinion of the culprit.
Never will I shirk from my solemn duty to give any question its fair dose of “some thought”. Just don’t be surpised if I take us all on some unforeseen tangent because that’s what I do.
Meanwhile, thanks for saying hi. We may not always agree, but at least you know we can talk about it.
[muah]
I’m a reader, but I’m also quite busy spidering the world wide web as I work away at creating my own pen and ink search engine.
I found google was grossly ineffiecent, so I have decided to draw each webpage on the interweb as a single square, with each link leading to another square. Each link is then labeled (red for one way links, blue for circular links). This helps me avoid pages which are using circular links in an attempt to raise their page rank. The relevanace of each page is then ranked on a scale of 1 to 10, and a multiplier is added for the visual appeal of the site. The I update the index.
Mind you, I only have 4 stes in my database, but hey, rome wasn’t built in a day.
what?
dave
Ola!
I’m here once a day or so.
PS I found a place!
Ha! I was reading your comment (mischiff) and was thinking to myself. Self – he must have written this after the bar. He sounds drunk. Sure enough…4:13am
At least I’m writing, butt-ass.
no contest. you got me there!
haha.. yeah gurton, come on.. update .. whats going on with you??
mischiff: i can help you with code for remembering commenter names. remember? word word word word word word word.
davin- sign me up for some of that help. also would like to set up a stylesheet thingy so that archives and such use the same sidebar and header as the main blog. but we can talk about that when we talk. let’s talk.
Sometimes I come by to read your ramblings. ;-) I use a links page on my site, so that would show up on your stats.
Hi DJ. I swing by every once in a random blogorbit. :)
Apparently I only read every few days, or I would have posted sooner.
My excuse – the housesitting job has a great view that distracts me from the computer screen. Yeah…that’s it!