This post is a result of me having not much else to say, largely because I am so caught up in the start of the semester that my focus is not very outward right now.
This post is to tell you that for some reason my average unique visitors per day dropped from around 150 in November to around 80 in January. December was somewhere in between, but I thought that was because of the holidays. Unfortunately, I don’t have stats for months prior to November because I switched hosts.
I just now, sitting here, typing, figured it out. Early in the life of this blog, I posted a link to a site featuring old pictures of scantily clad women. I called the post “antique porn”. This meant that there was a page on my blog with the word “porn” in the URL. This meant that droves of people got to my site as a result of searches for porn. Sometime in November or December I made that post private, because I was curious about how much of my traffic was coming from that one page. It took Google a while to catch up, but I just noticed that my number of 404s has dropped dramatically, and “porn” has dropped off the search terms completely. So I guess that one post was pulling in nearly half of my unique visitors. I’m not sure, but I don’t think it had quite that big an impact on my overall traffic because I’d imagine that the folks who get to me looking for porn are not as likely to return as those whose interests are more relevant to my site.
Anyway, now that I know what the effect is, I think I’m going to make that page public again. In the meantime, here are some of the top search words that got people here so far this month:
- pesce
- poetry
- harrisburg
- poems
- mediterranean
- bistro
- 2005
- eyes
- restaurant
- poem
- pictures
- koi
- houlihan
- vietnamese
- hershey
- rietmulder
- pa
- mantis
- lucky
- shameless
- wrong
- sunset
- blog
- miyako
- pink
- julia
- picture
- fedora
- jancey
- shady
- ross
- pho
- leaf
- james
- goldenpalace.com
- pasteur
- scam
- new
- disobedience
- susurration
- civil
- food
- collective
- mp3
- cotton
- armor
- preteens
I found this a very interesting post though i am slightly saddened that there were no searches for snow on your list. I hope school is going well.
There were three searches that included the word “snow” that resulted in visits. That’s .3% of all searches that led to the site.
this is one thing i miss about being on a paid host. i used to have such bizarre referrer queries. hilarious shit. i made a post about it at some point..i’ll see if i can find it, it was fairly amusingg. especialy because my old blog was called “sucking chestwound” 😉
Hello! Thats what I am talking about .3 percent of ALL searches. woo hoo. I may be mocking myself but thanks for the details. I find all that intriguing.