Honey

I am a curious web master, always wondering about who is visiting my site. I’m all hooked up with Google Analytics so I can periodically check to see how much traffic my humble little blog is handling from day to day. Although the basic figures are interesting (15 people visited my site on Thursday, for example) my favorite report is Traffic Sources. This gives me an idea of why people are visiting, and will ideally allow me to tailor my content toward what people might be interested in reading about.

In the last month, people clicked a link to my site 61 times from some other site, mostly blog aggregators like orblogs.com and technorati. People went to my website directly 30 times by typing the URL into the address bar. They probably have my address memorized, or at least I like to think so.

The most interesting statistics to me are the google searches people used that led them to my blog. For example, I’m excited to see that someone’s search for the Portland Dump probably got them the information they needed. The most common google searches that lead to me, of course, are searches for koen brenner and koencidence. I admit it, I see this and my curiosity flag whips up into the air and starts waving around in front of my face. Somebody out there (or even somebodies) are searching for me by name. Who could it be? And what is their purpose? Do they ever find what they’re looking for?