*earlier the links weren't working - I think they are working now. Sorry.
Anti:freeze has finally passed the 10,000 visitor mark (and as of this afternoon, it's edging toward 10,100 - and that's not even considering the fact that, at first, I didn't add the meter to my archives, only to the main anti:freeze page). I don't know about the other journals on littlemotors, since they don't have site meters. Wendy and I have been around the longest, while Dewi and Kelley both joined last summer. When I created this website, I swore I would never obsess over numbers. It took two days to cave in and sign up for sitemeter. The web has a creepy way of making you care about statistics. At least I haven't imposed my sick fascination on the other writers here. Just because I created a website doesn't mean I can stick code all over people's personal pages.
Last night, I pared down the long list of of search terms people have used to find my page. Moments before I logged into Movable Type, I decided to check Wendy's food/erotics blog, and guess what? She had just posted search terms, too. Can we be any more in synch? (Wendy, this sometimes creeps me out, in a good way. I mean, damn, we were just in synch over that Bible post ... )
Anyway, thanks to Alan for the idea. He posted his search terms back in November, and it inspired me to pay more attention. And thanks to Howard at howardism.org, who encouraged me to link each term with its post or page.
Here they are:
Tectonics guns, earthquake
Multnomah County Circuit Court
tampon freeze death
Trompe l弛eil sidewalk
foreign office architects
砺ictor laslow� Casablanca
bashed in piano
skull boots
to the dead boy
skull rings
cats and anti freeze
hung far low
the froelich tractor froelich iowa
burnside bridge heroin
Prague, skull, clock
都ilver oxide� tarnish color
lomo wonder milk
forensic hair analysis
exhumation
and the one that creeps me out most of all ....
Karrie Higgins (seriously, why would anyone - anyone - be searching for me?)
Comments (8)
You forgot to add a link to the pages that received the hit. I mean, those search terms are quite intriguing and I'd like to read the blog entry that caught such a request. ;-)
I mean, when I first noticed search requests like "Spandex cutoffs" and "funkypancake" I just had to look at what they found on my web site that matched.
I was also surprised at how many search requests with, hmmm, er ... for purient content (ah, good choice of words there) matched my site as well.
My list for this last week is at http://www.howardism.org/ReferrerList.shtml
Posted by Howard | January 15, 2004 12:10 PM
Posted on January 15, 2004 12:10
Thanks again for the idea - I added the links. At first, they weren't working. Now they're fixed. :)
Posted by karrie | January 15, 2004 3:11 PM
Posted on January 15, 2004 15:11
Don't feel creeped out because someone found your blog by searching for your name. It could be someone who already knew your blog and lost the url.
People search for my blog with my name all the time. I'm sure it's people who know me through my blog, and not someone in real life who is trying to find me.
At least, not most of the time...
Posted by Michael J. Totten | January 15, 2004 7:47 PM
Posted on January 15, 2004 19:47
Mike -
Your experience has been very different from mine. I get a lot of emails from ex-boyfriends, old friends, and old not-friends ... They tell me how they searched my name online and found my site. Sometimes they are cool. Sometimes they are stalker-eque.
I imagine this is somewhat different for everybody.
K
Posted by karrie | January 16, 2004 5:58 AM
Posted on January 16, 2004 05:58
Karrie,
Could be a bit of both for everyone. I did get an email from an old DI colleague, and forgot about that when I posted my comment.
Posted by Michael J. Totten | January 16, 2004 9:11 AM
Posted on January 16, 2004 09:11
Hi Karrie
I agree, its creepy! My name was typed in as a Google search request once. Yikes!
By the way, I think you are a fantastic writer. I enjoy your work very much.
Posted by Val | January 22, 2004 6:25 PM
Posted on January 22, 2004 18:25
I served with a Michael J. Totten in Saudi Arabia in the 1976/1977 time frame and later in the Washington area. Are you the same Mike? Joel
Posted by Joel Thomas | February 25, 2004 9:21 PM
Posted on February 25, 2004 21:21
I served with a Michael J. Totten in Saudi Arabia in the 1976/1977 time frame and later in the Washington area. Are you the same Mike? Joel
Posted by Joel Thomas | February 25, 2004 9:21 PM
Posted on February 25, 2004 21:21