A Passion for Running

Comment by susan

Monday August 08, 2005 @

I wish I could figure it out, Mark. I have typepad, so I do have a way to see some referrals. But most of the “hits” have no identifying label. It’s strange. Or I’m just slow:) And, yeah, I’m curious. I usually think of my small group of readers, and then out of the blue, I’ll get an email from someone who has been visiting…and it surprises me.

Comment by Jon in Michigan

Monday August 08, 2005 @

Far and above, most of my visits come from Google searches. Then Bloglines is next. Then Google images.

The number one search word? Chocolate! Number 2? Running! Go figure.

Comment by mia

Monday August 08, 2005 @

I care. I like to know that I’m still “anonymous”, at least to people in my real life. It’s the only reason I look, and I’ve never seen anything alarming in that sense. For me, it’s more than half as self-referring, tons of google hits for pregnancy (really? I’m no expert!) and tips on forcing yourself to vomit (apparently “mia” is short for bulimia, the way “ana” is short for anorexia), and gardening stuff. Pretty eclectic. No running hits. hmmmm, I wonder what *that* says about me! Then there are about 20 or so referring sites that I get significant hits from. So, I don’t know what it all means. I just check every so often to make sure I’m not being stalked by a neighbor!

You’re amazing with the barefoot running, by the way. I can’t believe you’re up to 40 minutes! Did you ever decide on a goal time for the 5k?

Comment by Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Monday August 08, 2005 @

I’m always curious, so how do you find out????

Comment by Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Monday August 08, 2005 @

Just for fun I typed in “butt shot” Dawn – yup my site comes up as first two choices of 554 in google. Teheheheheeeee “butt shot of mark” comes up with link to my site as well, thanks to a comment by Jon. Funny how stuff he says sometimes makes for interesting searches….lol.

Comment by Adeel

Monday August 08, 2005 @

I’m fully aware of where my visitors come from, and it’s a terrifying melange. My propensity to swear, most notably my use of the word ‘fuck’, combines with the asinine topics about which I write to yield search terms such as the query “can people remember what they did while on crack?“

Comment by Lara

Monday August 08, 2005 @

I purposely have not invoked any means to track my referrals because, as silly as it may sound, I prefer to not have any proof (to myself) that more than 10 or 12 people read my blog. Until I’m forced to do otherwise, I choose blissful ignorance.

Comment by SD

Thursday August 11, 2005 @

Mark,

Most of my visitors come to my blogs from blog list pages like the RBF list or homeimprovment.net. I wish I could see what google search strings people use to get to my pages. It sounds like it can be pretty entertaining.

Speaking of the RBF, my wife Brittany and I were talking yesterday about making teeshirts for those who will be at the Vegas Marathon in December. We were thinking of having them say RBF Westside. Any thoughts?