Earlier in the year I added one of those web counters to Reign so I could get an idea of how many people were visiting the blog. I thought it would be interesting to see just how many people were actually stopping in because frankly, comments are few and far between. But as someone who likes to read other people's blogs, I know that comments aren't always a good indicator of your traffic. I mean there are blogs I visit every day--and sometimes multiple times in one day-- but I don't always leave comments.So anyhoo, I installed a counter to tell me how many visits I get, what posts they read, how long they stay... blah, blah, blappity blah. I learned that Reign actually gets a fairly steady stream of traffic (nice!) and a lot of it is from regular readers. Thanks guys! Of course I have no idea who you are, but I'm glad to know you're tuning in. I'll try to keep it fresh for ya.
One of the interesting features of this counter is that it tells me where a visitor has come from. For example, I get a lot of hits from other blogs that I've posted on. When I leave a comment on another blog I always link back to Reign. Then if someone else reads my comment and clicks the link to visit Reign, the counter will tell me.
So now you're saying "Big deal! What is this, Blogging 101? Get to the point already!"
Alright, alright I'm getting to the point. Jeez!
Ok, I also get visits that come from Google searches on certain phrases. I get a lot of hits from searches on "preteen blog"-- which is good! That means I'm doing my job! And I get a few hits from other topics that I talk about like "teen pregnancy" and "tween birth control." All fine and good.
However (and here's where things get a little strange), because of the nature of the topics I cover, I'm finding that I end up with a lot of traffic from people searching phrases like: "sexy pre-teen babes", "hot sugar mamas", "school house sex" and the ever popular "pantiless girls." But thanks to this post, a good percentage of my traffic comes from people who have googled some variation of "freaky sex" which may include: "freaky sex girls" "teenage freaky sex", "sexy freaky girl" or "freaky sex moves."
Now I'm not one to judge. Maybe these folks are doing research for their own insightful blog that explores how young girls are exploited by a hypersexualized society ... but somehow I kinda doubt it.
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"Amy Jussel raises her hand to be counted on Reign, waving it wildly through the air, I'm here! I'm here! I read you, Felicia! ;-)
Alas, as you say, I'm slammed on time and often don't lob a comment your way. My bad.
I also access from my Google Reader due to sheer volume, so don't even LAND on the real sites anymore with many of my fave blogs!
I'm amazed you'd be bold enough to risk the mega-spam with a title like that March post though, missy, for as you know, the prominent pings to posts are oh, so often tracing back to porn. sigh.
In fact, as Shaping Youth started growing in readership I literally had to buy out all the domains that remotely sounded like mine, (56!) as the SEO wizards were trying to bleed traffic and reroute to a farethewell. Bleh. It's bad enough having pervs try to fling inbound links, it's worse to have SEO-wise pervs! yech.
That said, please always know that if I do NOT answer a ping, it's usually buried or snagged in the akismet filter which is now over (count 'em, 500,000) and therefore set to a very high filtration for the reasons just mentioned above!
Hard to keep up, indeed. So are you using Google Analytics? I don't mess w/mine much, as I'm too swamped...(btw, haven't had a chance to buy the Ruby book yet for our tag team review) Back atcha soon. AJ
Very happy to know that you are a regular reader! I too am more of a lurker (blurker?) who buzzes through so many favorite blogs in a day that there just may not be time to comment on all. And rest assured I am a daily reader of Shaping Youth and know I don't comment as much as I should.
You can probably smell newbie blogger stench on me... It never even occured to me that march title would end up on so many, well... unsavory search results. I do have much to learn about SEO and such, but at the same time...maybe the unsavory searchers, ending up here at Reign, could start to peruse the blog and check out the empowering female blogroll on the side and have a change of heart? A blog-conversion maybe?
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Miriam
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Thanks so much for reading along, Miriam. It's give me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that not only are you popping in once in a while but also checking out the archives! Whoo hoo!
Monday morning blahs, officially gone!
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