The power of blogs

I was going over my referrer logs a few minutes ago (still hoping for page view stats someday), and I've been really surprised by the varied nature of how people come to read what I write. I keep seeing this referrer in my logs in regards to my post on the Disneyland accident: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=DISNEYLAND%20ACCIDENTS. I'm an egotist by nature, I'll freely admit it. I like to click through my referrers and see where they're coming from. So I click through. It turns out, thanks to an anonymous poster by the name of “Mr. M. Mouse”, I am #7 on that list of search results.

That is so cool. I can't wait to see page view stats, to see an even better picture of how all this stuff interacts. It's really fascinating.

4 Comments

  • Thats funny... I thought I was the only one with the closet addiction of checking my referrer log religiously... I'm like an addict. I click on all the google links to see what people were searching on...



    Hell, I'm just stoked people take the time out to read my brain dumps!

  • If Hotmail and Outlook sent a referrer when a user clicked the link in an email, you'd have a few more in your stats, Robert. I've emailed at least a couple links to your posts.

  • I look at mine sometimes too - I've taken to using Google searches as inspiration for blogs. People search for stuff that I don't have (but click through)...



    --Brian

  • ...and this page is one of the top results for "power of blogs". Kind of interesting, a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.



    I am looking at your site precisely because I, too, am a referer log addict, and someone recently found my web-based journal through that same search, which made me go and look, to see exactly how high I ranked.



    This has caused me to try to be careful about overusing certain terms in a posting (such as "power of ... you know"), lest my site become higher-rated for that topic than I really feel is warranted. For example, I am definitely not the person to go to if you want to "get someone yahoo password".

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