Recently, I went by my traffic page to see just how many hits I was getting in recent days. Naturally, I was sure to take a gander at the referrals and search term portions of this page, just to see who was looking for what and who else might have led them to me in the first place. Needless to say, it was interesting, and pretty consistent with what I’ve been seeing in the last few months.
Ah, but then, I decided to look at the All-Time totals to see just how much of my traffic I owed to certain subjects. You can tell much about your own page and the impact it’s having by seeing what search term more than any other led people to you. And after looking over the grand totals, I thought I might list the top 15 and see what I could conclude from it.
So, here are the top 15 search terms which have led people to my site since it went online in March of 2011:
- Joker: 10,060
- The Joker: 4,813
- Bath Salts Zombie: 2,267
- Bath Salt Zombie: 1,585
- Predator: 1,010
- Moon: 918
- COD (Call of Duty): 887
- Bayonet: 820
- Tiananmen Square: 607
- Firefly Serenity: 607
- Firefly: 535
- Zombie Apocalypse: 511
- Zombie Weapons: 495
- Desert Eagle .50 cal: 442
- Futuristic Guns: 412
What to conclude from all of this? I’m not sure I want to think about it much. If I did, I might have to admit that maybe my site mainly appeals to gamers, gun enthusiasts and people who like reading about insane clowns, zombies and recreational cannibalism. Not exactly the reason I started writing this thing in the first place!
But then again, I could just as easily conclude that, like me, these people enjoy a good romp through nerd territory, complete with dystopian fiction, post-apocalypticism, cool weapons, cool games and cool franchises. And maybe, just maybe, they enjoy learning about history and engaging in some thoughtful discussion along the way.
Hey, a man can always dream, right? 😉
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