Dear Readers, I must confess. I love my blog. I love that you all come and read my ramblings on a semi-regular basis. And I luuuuv it when you comment. Sigh.
It’s terribly self-focused, this blog fixation of mine. Fortunately for me I have a tool to help me maintain a realistic view of the importance of this blog of mine. It’s my site meter.
I installed it sometime last month, so I could count how many of you read my blog. It’s very interesting data. For instance I know that not nearly as many of you check in on the weekends as on, say, Thursday. Thursday is a very big day for my blog. I guess what else does Thursday have going for it, now that must-see-TV has gone downhill?
But one of my favorite features of the site meter is the referral list. It tells what links people clicked through to get to my blog. And mostly its “unknown.” Whatever. But sometimes it lists someone else’s blog, a friend who has kindly linked to me. And sometimes it lists the Google search that led some hapless soul to me. Usually it shows that someone Googled “kiwords”. But sometimes it’s…well, odd.
Someone found my blog by plugging in the words “swallows” and “intersections.” Ok, I can see where that would lead you to this entry. But why would someone do a search on that, exactly? Well, that’s not as odd as the search that found me with the words “Costco” + “sample”+ “girls.” Oooookaaaay. What were we going for here, people?
But still, that doesn’t give one pause nearly as much as the person who was looking for sites pertaining to “extreme” + “face” + “farting” + “forum.” Um. Wh…why? And would the run-of-the-mill face farting forums been disappointing? Surely not as disappointing as what they found in my wee blog.
But the feature of my site meter that keeps my blogging efforts in perspective best is this one: “Average Visit Length.” Which for today is (wait, let me check) 2 minutes 21 seconds.
Well, there you have it. How important could I be in less than two and a half minutes? Or, to put it another, more comforting way, how boneheaded could I be in that short of a period of time?
Yup, in that span of time I’m safely in the realm of just a little harmless diversion. And now, I must let you all get back to your lives, whatever they may include, because I see my time is about up.