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Open What's For Lunch? Soul-Devouring
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Wednesday May 1, 2002 |
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of the Day The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Blog I didn't even have to sign some disciplinary form, since the head vending guy was out all night, touring around the stadium with various corporate weasels. Half a dozen times a year we'll hear that some guy from the parent company is around that night, and all stands should be super clean, etc. No one cares, of course, 98% of the employees are part timers who hate the job *cough*, or have no interest in advancement in the company *cough*, so they could care if the boss of their boss' boss thinks their stand is clean and they've got everyone in proper uniform or not. I made over $100, got about $15 in tips, got out before traffic, and my feet and legs hardly hurt at all afterwards, so it was a good night, by my rating system. Yesterday evening I found time and motivation to update the Links page, and added about 10 more sites, moved other sites around, added to the write up of a number of sites that were there already, and fixed a couple of typos. So go look, or something. Here's a few news items. I have already done the long lower portion of the page blog thing for the next two days, so maybe I'll run them both tomorrow, and skip surfing for news items for a day. I was going to post the first one, about g-strings, today, but the talk about site stats got so long that I moved it from up here to down lower, where the extended essay sort of thing usually is. • A page with amazing stories of Niagara Falls crossings and daredevils is here. The stories of what the people did in the 1800's are just unbelievable.
Sort of puts those drunks leaping over porta potties on Mtv in their place, huh?
• The Darwin Awards are always good for some laughs, at least if you're a cruel, heartless person like myself who places no value on human life. *cough* Read old ones for half an hour last night, and this one was probably my favorite. • 3000 cobras? I'm just wondering how they hell they even counted that many. The figure seems absurd; if you caught them individually, one every 30 seconds, it would take you 25 hours to bag that many. Or you could just grab up double handfuls. How is he not dead? • Disneyworld, the happiest place on earth. Unless you're a big fat drowning drunk, or a suicidal employee. • Maybe I'll just stay out of the water when I'm next in Australia and/or NZ. • It's official, a court has ruled that penis size doesn't matter. Now you unfortunate guys just need to convince your wife and/or GF of that fact. A clever tongue will help. |
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The traffic of late is from search engines. Nothing on this site was in Google searches for around 8 or 10 weeks after I got it online. No idea why, I wondered about it in a few blogs, which you could probably find if you hunted through the archives. I'm not necessarily recommending you do so, though. At that time, a search for "black champagne" would come up with nothing about this site, and even searching for "www.blackchampagne.com" wouldn't be successful. Not that I really cared, since after all, who would search on that and not know this site URL already? Now if you search on that, the "What is Black Champagne" page comes up #2. Which is still meaningless, since as I say, no one is going to search on that and want to find this site, unless they're just doing it for fun. Sometime in mid-April I saw in my site stats about 120 hits one day from something like spider.google.com. Which was obviously the first time the google search engine bot had crawled my pages. Since then I've had a few hits a day from google, though I have no idea what people were searching on and clicking to here from the results of. The last few days though, as I said about five paragraphs ago, there have been a lot more hits coming in from google referrals, and I checked a few searches last night and my site, this site, is popping up more frequently. Search on "dirty slang", for instance, and bingo, I'm #1! My proudest moment; I'll just note it down in a letter to the grandparents. My stats log doesn't work for entry by page stats. It counts which pages are viewed the most with accuracy (I guess, no way to check, really.) but has no clue on which page a visitor clicked directly to, from off site, though it (the stats) says it does. I had a link to an archive blog page on an article I did on the D2 site, and that page was for a while early this month the #2 most loaded page on the site, but had zero entry hits on it. Which was clearly wrong. Anyway, the gist of this is that I know there are 40 or 50 hits a day from Google of late, but I have no idea what they're clicking to come here from there. This is not the case for Yahoo searches, even though they use the google engine for their searches. The main Yahoo page categories (Arts, for instance) are a different thing. Those are largely compiled and organized by humans, and you have to submit your site to be listed there, though they'll eventually add a site without a webmaster request, if the site is popular and the Yahoos hear about it in some other way. I've never submitted to that, or been added. Yet. The site stats list the top 30 of 146 (currently) referring sites for April, but only the top 30, so I can't see the lower 116 referrers. And every search seems to count on its own line, so the number of total referral sources goes up rapidly if search engines are hitting. For March the site had 110 or so referral hits, but almost all were 1 hit from a source, and I don't trust the accuracy of the figures at all, since all site stats I've had access to in the past have been quite inaccurate. Here are the top few sources of hits to this page, for March 2002, by number. om odd things. The point being, the vast majority by hits were from my plugs, or repeat visits by visitors initially attracted by my plugs. There were virtually zero from search engines, and I think a lot of the single hits were bugs in the code, since often the pages they say they are from clearly never had a link here in the first place. For April the total hits are far higher, but with an even bigger drop off. The direct requests are around 1800, but I didn't plug the site in any forum posts, so the next biggest is google hits, and there are like 7 separate sources of those.
All are google, why some are using their IP#, and others the domain name, I dunno. You'll note that some are from google being accessed through yahoo, others are direct, and there's even a Canadian Google. Unfortunately I don't see what they were searching for that turned me up on those. I do see that on some other Yahoo searches, though I don't know why. This sort of thing is often amusing, and shows off how much weird stuff you have on your site. As in this example from the late/great Dooce. She clearly has a better site stats program than I do, since I don't see anywhere near that many results. In fact the top 30 are listed, and the top 25 referrers for April sent 2 or more hits, while those sort of odd searches are only going to be 1 search on the same words. Unless two or more people search for the exact same key words, which is unlikely when they are something like, "nancy kerrigan gets spanked", to use an example from that Dooce page. Though the only Dooce page that comes up with now is the one linked above, which came after the search was made. Odd. The only two examples I have of this sort of thing now are the following searches, both on Yahoo: The first search pops my Hot or Not? page at #12, and the second pops only two pages, both of them story pages from this site. It's an odd search, what could they have been looking for? I doubt it was what they found, at any rate. "Saraha" is the name of one of the characters in two of my Halloween stories, which is why it came up on the search. I need to get a better stats script, since the one I have now has bugs (obviously) and I can't configure it at all. It's just whatever was automatically available to me by my site hosting service. I'll at least see the odd yahoo search results for a bit now, (and be able to post some here for everyone's amusement) since the script shows the top 30 referrals, and with the month just starting, it'll be a week or so until there are more than 1 referral from every source, I'd expect. I believe latest are on top, so if I get the top 20 at 2+ hits each, the bottom 10 will be new each day, for a while anyway.
There's no real point to this discussion. I love stats and statistics, and the fact that the D2 site is far too busy for us to run detailed traffic logs (really busy sites the traffic logs become gargantuan, literally gigs a day, which are too big to DL and look into, and fill up your HD space instantly, while the ones on this site are just a few KB each day) always bums me out, since I love to see which pages are most popular, both to see what readers most want updated, and just to satisfy my curiosity. So I love having stats to look over on this site, and tend to eagerly check them most every day around 2am, when yesterday's stats become visible to me. And I assume readers are at least somewhat interested in the traffic and numbers. If not, you've stopped reading well above this line anyway. |
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