Strongly Worded

Referring URLs

So yet another source of distraction for me at my fascinating job is sitemeter, which tracks visits to my blog with an addictive level of detail. So I can see as often as I want how many visits I'm getting, how many page views, how long my visitors are hanging around, and, most fascinating, where they're coming from. Most of the visits come from "unknown" referring URLs, meaning, they are people who know me and/or the blog and just type in stronglyworded.com all on their own.

However, there are quite a few visitors who are referred by blogexplosion (a vehicle for blog traffic exchange), by blogspot (the interface for posting, which has a "recently updated blogs" feature), and, more recently, by yahoo searches. For your amusement, the search terms that have recently called up this blog:

"conversational narcissist"
"his ponytail"
"Museum of Pasta Foods"
"enneagram questioner"
"Madeleine Blais"
"salt and bread"
"dating multiple women"

And the clincher:
"Paris Hilton Hairstylist Vega."

Posted by Dori at 9:35 AM