OBSESSION!

I got totally obsessed. I discovered the mysterious and surprising reservoir of the feature "visitor stats and referrers" in my TypePad account, and now I'm checking it four or five times a day.

I can't help my curiosity. It's fun to know who your readers are. But the most fun, i admit, is clicking on the "google search" referrals, and see what the readers who casually came across my blog were truly seeking.

So far, the hit parade was won by a search for "Jimi Hendrix Griffith Park" that unexpectedly referred to my post "dog on wheels"! Amazing automated summing of criteria. And who knows what are the criteria automatically picked by Amazon.com. For istance, somebody let me know that yesterday, looking for my book Reckless and coming across similar titles by different authors, they decided to type instead my name and last name in the search field. The products resulting were not only the above quoted book but a compilation of "The Best of Led Zeppelin."

I wish I had a part in the lyrics for the band but... why even try to claim it, right?

Comments

[Will Campbell]

I agree it is very addictive. And searching my site's only recently added Sitemeter stats is how I found out about you!

[Gloria]

Good to know I'm not the only one who got the stat monkey.