BEST EVER HIT MAKER

Snow is coming down but so far, no signs of ice on the lines. We are expected to get a lot of moisture through out the day and hopefully, we stay with snow. It is just so pretty. Mighty and I will try to get in a walk down the road today before it gets too deep for him . He only has about a 4 inch clearance to his most prized possessions. To every one in the path of this monster storm covering many states, stay safe and warm.


HIT MAKER


This is an update on a previous post on the same subject. I use to think that my posts just fell into an abyss after I hit "publish" but early on, I got a site meter. It is a wonderful tool to track your visitors. Comments are only the tip of the ice berg. You can tell generally where the visitors are from, how they found you, how long they stayed, and if they visited more than one post. It will also rather cruelly let you know when you have put out a dud post with a puny hit count.

The refreshing thing is that you realized that some posts never die. Perhaps we aren't just spitting into the wind. Some in fact become regular hit generators. For a while, it was just random hits through out my blog from Google inquiries. Obviously they were looking for something else entirely when a key word brought up on an old post.

Key words will take you a variety of places as you know when you try to Google a subject, often having nothing to do with what you are searching. I have found some scary sites that way. Who would have thought Googling "toys" around Christmas would bring up a sex toy site? My, that was interesting. Did I spell "toy" wrong? And the time I Goggled "expressing anal glands in a dog" in an effort to help Mighty Dog with his problem---good grief. The picture was vile and definitely not of a dog. Googling can be an adventure.

Then I unwittingly posted something that was to become my bread a butter hit maker. Even on dud post days, it keeps up my count. Five months ago, I wrote a post about an Australian Blue Heeler named Emma Lou. Evidently the Heeler has become a very popular little dog for I have continued to get many hits every single day from all over the world.

They are coming from Google searching the Australian dog. I have featured other dog breeds in my posts, but none got the response that the Heeler got and still gets daily. According to my sitemeter, almost 40% of my hits are for that post.

A very distant second is a post about a red nosed pit named Ratty. Many of these visitors disappear quickly into cyber space when they see it is just a blog, but a few stick around, read several posts and some actually return as lurkers. As I was once a lurker myself, I do have a soft spot for them. Welcome folks.

Someone asked me if the lady in the story about Emma Lou knew about the post I had written. Somehow, I think if she has a computer, still has a soft spot for Heelers and Googles "Australian Blue Heeler", she will find it. Just hope she will forgive my prejudgment of her. Not my finest moment.

What is your biggest hit maker?