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Someone did a crazy search for mazes…

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947 views on one maze in one day?

947 views on one maze in one day?

Looking at my WordPress stats, I found a really weird day on Feb. 27th, apparently Yahoo! Image Search was inundated with the word “maze” that day.  Check out all these crazy hits, click on the image to the left for the full size.

Weird.

It’s cool that one of my mazes shows up on the first page when you do a Yahoo image search for “maze”.  (Google too, just lower down the page.)

Did I miss national maze day or something?

Was there a maze in the news?

I really need to work on putting together a book, or trying to sell some prints online somehow.  It would be nice to do something productive with them.

1053 hits in one day?

1053 hits in one day?

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Are you spamminators? Are you real? Have you clicked “like” or followed my blog?

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Well, I’ve been blogging for a while now, and I enjoy the “stats” quite a bit.  (I love the search terms that lead people here.)  Lately I’ve been seeing the number of reads, likes, and followers go up… but the comments are staying about the same.  I also wonder if the people following & clicking the “★ Like” button actually like my posts, or if they’re just web-bots, or looking for links back to their own blog.

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WordPress

I do a lot of my following with Google Reader, not on WordPress.  Google seems to do a better job of handling non-WordPress blogs in with the WordPress blogs.  The only problem is that my +1‘s or ☆‘s or probably don’t get back to WordPress authors (or other blog authors) as likes.

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Google Reader

Have you recently followed me?

Have you recently “liked” one of my posts?

Leave a comment and let me know why you liked the post or why you followed my blog.  How did you find me?  Tell me something about yourself.  I’d really appreciate the feedback!  Not that I don’t already appreciate the likes & the follows… but it may even help me post more content that people actually enjoy.

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Thank You! [2011 in Review]

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Also, it told me this…

Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2011 was Concert Stereotypes

These were your 5 most active commenters:

  1.   Dave | 26 comments
  2.   omawarisan | 20 comments
  3.   Sam | 17 comments
  4.   valleyofsteel | 11 comments
  5. Jennifer is Always Sick | 10 comments

So, thanks to all of you for being the top commenters this year!  Most of my blogs are meant to encourage discussion.  Hopefully here, though more likely on Facebook or Twitter.  (These numbers may be skewed, if you didn’t login to WordPress or use the same Gravatar email address, Facebook, or Twitter to comment consistently.)

I really feel that this is a great outlet for me.  It helps calm me down, & give me something positive on which to focus.  I really do appreciate all of the people out there taking the time to read, comment, and even subscribe.  Most of you are my friends in some capacity, and I’m glad that you continue to be interested in whatever I happen to be ranting about.

So, what do you want more (or less) of in 2012?

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teriyaki as a competitor to subway

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Heh.  This are still amusing to me.  People searching for these terms ended up at my blog…

Search Engine Terms

These are terms people used to find your blog.

Today

Search Views
data next generation 1
teriyaki as a competitor to subway 1
who won the pens game last night 1
9 levels of hell 1
palm pre “msg 1051” 1

Yesterday

Search Views
9 levels of hell 2
what seats are blocked at mellon arena 1
sprint short code expired 1
9230: the short code you are attempting 1
chart of dante’s hell 1
“parking chair” 1
9230: message failed. shortcode may have 1
sprint error msg 1051 1
pizza hut allergen 1
pizza in alliteration 1

It’s a strange world we live in.

  • teriyaki as a competitor to subway – What?  Teriyaki as a condiment is going to compete with a sandwich chain?  I’m hoping this was just a malformed input into a smartphone… but really to what end?  Maybe it’s an upcoming Kaiju Big Battel fight?  What did they think when they clicked here?  Was it at all informative or entertaining?
  • who won the pens game last night – Brought you here?  The Pens won last night, but If you type “Pittsburgh Penguins” into the Google search box, the latest scores and the schedule for the next game come right up.  Or, you could just go to penguins.nhl.com.  I’m guessing you were disappointed by your visit?
  • pizza in alliteration – Someone couldn’t come up with their own alliteration involving pizza?  Are you trying to get me to do your homework?  Fine.  I’ll do it if it’s not too late.  Penelope politely perused the pizza parlor for pungent pepperoni to polish off.

I see that Dante’s levels of hell, the Sprint shortcode error, and Pizza Hut are still big hits… and someone must have read my Data vs. C-3PO article.

Stats

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Is this stuff interesting to anyone other than me?

Search Engine Terms

These are terms people used to find your blog.

Today

Search Views
rock concert rigging 2
the mythical magical mcgang-bang 2
msg 1051 1
sprint shortcodes not working 1
sprint msg 1051 1
the shortcode you are attempting to use 1
free misfits archangel (demo) mp3 1
the short code you are attempting to use 1
sprint 9230 1051 1

Yesterday

Search Views
msg 1051 3
the short code you are attempting to use 2
tony jones quiznos 2
the shortcode you are attempting to use 2
data next generation 2
data (tng) 2
beer sales pa 1
sprint store at trinity point wash pa 15 1
the short code you are attempting to use 1
taco bell mc gang bang 1

Blog Stats Summary Tables

Total views: 4,020

Busiest day: 159 — Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Views today: 32

Totals

Posts: 58

Comments: 178

Categories: 23

Tags: 1,588

Email Subscribers

Blog:0 active

Comments: 6 subscribers, 7 subscriptions

Spam

Akismet has protected your site from 258 spam comments.

Just a note: we don’t count your own visits to your blog.

Generated 2010-01-18 15:00:35 UTC

Stats

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Heh.  Stats are amusing to me.  I love relatively useless information, and I love that they’re built in to WordPress.  I don’t even have to do anything.  They’re just… there.

First off, thanks to all the readers, posters, and all 3 or 4 people brave enough to comment here on the blog.  I really dig comments.

You can see over the weeks, the views have been up & down each day, generally according to whatever was posted that day… but steadily over the weeks, the number of views has climbed.  (That last drop is because it’s meed-week, I believe…)

W(aL)D,graph,World (and Lunar) Domination,views,readers,clicks,days

W(aL)D,graph,World (and Lunar) Domination,views,readers,clicks,weeks

Apparently, the goofy emails go over better than the other stuff.  I’ll have to try some more of that… but this is really my only outlet for anything, so it may stay a mixed bag for a while.

Not only are the graphs funny to look at, but I can tell what people have been reading…

Sprint,shortcode,short,code,short code,W(aL)D,World (and Lunar) Domination,Yuengling,Yeungling,Sauce,Kmart,Kmart Feedback,Store,manager,Mrs. Santa Claus,Quiznos,West Liberty

Apparently the shortcodes are still a problem with Sprint. Wonder why this isn’t a news story yet?  Others are wondering why they can’t get Yeungling Lager Sauce any more.  Me too.  People are still inquisitive about Quiznos, Kmart, Wendy’s, and apparently a naked Asian Mrs. Claus.  I hope any of you that landed here randomly were amused, apologies for the lack of naked Asian Santa’s wife.

This is what you’ve been reading recently…

C-3PO,Data,Star Wars,Star Trek,Mrs. Clause,Creepy,Quiznos,Toasty Torpedo,Stuffing

So, the Data vs. C-3PO thing was read (or at least clicked on) a lot… No real interest, or just nothing to say about it?  Subway is still apparently amusing.  Still haven’t heard anything further from Quiznos once I let them know that I had a blog, and the allergy amigos must not find alliteration amusing.

Here are the URL’s if you missed any of the stuff the 1st time and want to read it now…

Today

Title Views
Data vs. C-3PO? 6 More stats
Sprint, Shortcodes, SMS, Service, & 4 More stats
Wendy’s in Dormont (Pittsburgh, PA) – W. 2 More stats
Allergies, Alliteration, and Annoyance. 2 More stats
Think of the Kmart employees this holida 1 More stats
So, we have a response from Subway! 1 More stats
Stuffing Recipe – Thanksgiving 2009 1 More stats
The Yuengling Sauce and the LaChoy Teriy 1 More stats
If we’re keeping score, that’s Subway 1 1 More stats
Mellon Arena – Customer Service WIN. 1 More stats

Yesterday

Title Views
Data vs. C-3PO? 40 More stats
The Creepy Mrs. Claus 3 More stats
The Yuengling Sauce and the LaChoy Teriy 2 More stats
If we’re keeping score, that’s Subway 1 2 More stats
Mellon Arena – Customer Service WIN. 1 More stats
The Quiznos Toasty Torpedo™ and the dimi 1 More stats
Stuffing Recipe – Thanksgiving 2009 1 More stats
Impressive. 1 More stats
Think of the Kmart employees this holida 1 More stats
Sprint, Shortcodes, SMS, Service, & 1 More stats

At any rate, thanks for reading!