Search Prediction
As I predicted here, a gentle internet user was actually searching for “the Arden Forest and the Battle of the Bulge” and found my ridiculous blog.
Sorry man.
Written on March 16, 2007 at roughly 8:39 am. And by roughly I mean at that exact time.
3 Comments
March 19, 2007 at roughly 2:32 pm
I have a rather fantastic system installed on my server that tracks users who visit my site via JavaScript which then posts all that information to a MySQL database on my server that I can view to retrieve that information. And as for what I know about my readers I pay attention to their browser, screen size, platform, and geographical location. I also watch what search terms are used that drive traffic to my site as well as what websites are linking to me. The rest of the information I get, I let slide.
There are several free versions of this type of thing that you can put onto your blog. I would suggest Reinvigorate or Sitemeter. Reinvigorate is much, much better but is in Beta right now so it might take a while to get an account. Let me know if you want to use it and I might be able to get you hooked up.
March 19, 2007 at roughly 2:51 pm
That would be fun, but it seems like a kind of Pandora’s box of potential time-wastage. Hmmm … (sorry I’m still using IE! I did visit once on Firefox! Really I did!!!) Maybe I will just ask you my specific hacking-related questions in person.
Okay, so this scares me. (It scared me when I read the original post, too, but I got so busy I forgot to worry about it.) What else do you know about your readers? And, uh … what can you find out about mine . . .