WhooHoo! According to my “Stats”, my blog has had close to 20,000 unique visitors. None of you “regular people” understand this or even care about it but to us HTML’ers, uniques are the “Holy Grail”. For what reason do we toil placing code upon a server? So people can come see what we have to say of course. It’s all for not unless “cyber eyes” are reading what we are writing!
“Stats” are a wonderful thing as I’m sure some of my fellow Webmasters/Mistresses will agree, **cough** Xerraire **cough**. They allow you to see how many people are coming and where they are coming from. They can tell you which keywords and topics on your site are making it into the search engines and which are the most popular. I can see what country my visitors are from, what browser they are using, their screen resolution as well as what color underwear they are wearing at the time of their visit.
They other day, I was digging into my “Raw Statistics” because I wanted an answer to a question that had been perplexing me. The majority of my “Hits” come from Google image searches. This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of water-marking most of my images with my domain. Upon further investigation, I discovered that I had several images being “Hot-Linked” in a big way. I found them plastered all over pages at MySpace.com as well as Forums and Bulletin Boards. Normally I get all heated up over what I consider to be “Bandwidth Thieves”… but for now, I’m looking the other way because the images have my domain displayed on them. What the heck, free advertising huh?
I know most of you are probably scratching your head about now thinking “WTF is he talking about”? Humor me… it feels good to get it out!
Congratulations Mike on almost 20,000 hits you should be real proud of the cool sight you have created.
Keep up the good work.
Here’s Looking at 20,00 more hits :>)
Comment by Stephanie — May 22, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
Yes, I am a stats nut.
I happened to notice the 2 most popular keywords are “Michael and Shepherd” Mike, I think people, say from the old icq days are hunting you down!
I also have the same hot-linking issues, and in a big way.
I thought you might be seeing the numbers on yours stats when I saw the google ads go up
Comment by Xerraire — May 22, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
I would certainly not be surprised Barb… but if they have managed to track me down, they haven’t made their presence known!
Comment by Night Owl — May 23, 2006 @ 9:46 pm