Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Who's reading you?

Compared with say, Alda or anybody else really, my search terms are boring - in fact I rarely get referrers from Google, why is this? What am I doing wrong?

But they're often coming from interesting places - we had someone from the Pentagon - yes, the Pentagon - visiting once (don't know about you, but it warms my heart to think that someone with their finger on the button of the military industrial complex in the most powerful country in the world passes the time between tracking missiles and terrorist plots, for example, in reading blogs).

Also from Disney (I believe it was Mickey)
Also from CBS - *waves* aren't they a big music label or something?

But the one to have brought me the most pleasure is a recent reader from the Telegraph. I used to read it in Spain because the European edition of the Guardian was quite frankly pants, as well as expensive. The Telegraph offered a lovely nostalgic vision of England, where people wrote in concerned letters about their pelargoniums. It was all reassuring for an expat, though not really a country I recognised. Welcome, Mr or Mrs Telegraph! I salute your barmy newspaper!

Who's your most interesting reader to date?

31 comments:

Anonymous said...

CBS broadcasting - huge media company.

Annie said...

Ah. No doubt they're looking for inspiration. Watch out for that American tv comedy coming to your screens soon, about the life of a grade school teacher to whom NOTHING INTERESTING EVER HAPPENS...

Annie said...

Lord, I'm bored. The first person to post some interesting gossip in the comments will win a lovely prize.

Anonymous said...

Darling, I never get random hits either. Maybe tabs or tags or labels or whatever they're called would help. Not that I know how to put them there. But, you know, you write your post and then you tag or tab or label it as "cock and big knockers" at the bottom and I think that helps random people find it.

Mind you, just to be techy-geeky for a sec, I remember in my blogger days that I did used to get lots of random hits because of whatever images I'd uploaded whereas those hits don't come to wordpress, for some reason.

Um, gossip. Don't tell anyone, but Pats is pregnant, LC's given up blogging and GSE's moving to Scotland.

And you're my most interesting reader, obv.

Anonymous said...

These are terms people used to find your blog.

Today
None

Hey ho!

I'm bored too. And I have no gossip, interesting or otherwise.

I'm very grateful to anyone who reads my blog.

Anonymous said...

Unintentional name change there. Sorry!

Annie said...

thanks, BiB. You're very good at schmoozing - are you sure you're not Jewish?

Marsha - oo, how do you know?

I know, let's make up some gossip about LC... I think his lordship is missing the attention.

Dick Headley said...

Pentagon eh? That's class. I keep getting the same bunch of bukkake addicts in Bogota.

Anonymous said...

Annie, that was what MY blog stats said (but I'm guessing you knew that and I'm being too literal again...?)

The best gossip is always made up, no?

Annie said...

Hi, DH. It alliterates! It could almost be a poem:
Bukkake in Bogota
Frotting in Florence
Spanking in Saigon
Castigation in Calgary...

There, that'll spice up the search terms.

No Marsha, just me being dopey.

King of Scurf said...

That's nothing compared to what's happening in Buckingham.....

Billy said...

I haven't had many good search terms recently. Usually they are faintly disturbing.

Taiga the Fox said...

I have recently had just the normal search terms I always seem to have, like "what to wear in Taiga", "what taiga people eat", "what currency Taiga?", "do people in taiga have sex?", "Taiga porn" and "pictures of cops in the doughnut shops".

rockmother said...

I get a lot of 'Eve Pollard tights' searches on mine for some reason.

Tim F said...

I have no idea what brings people to my blog. I like to picture them throwing darts randomly against their monitors.

I hope they don't send me the repair bill.

LC said...

Google is fickle and unpredictable, but in my professional opinion I suspect the reason it's not giving you much love is because you don't have many outbound links on your main page. There's a school of thought which argues that who you link to is almost as important as who links to you in Google's search results ranking algorithm.

Annie said...

You mean I've got to bring back the blogroll? Oh lord.

LC said...

That would probably help, but it could take a month or two before you started to see results.

Also, if you make up gossip about me, I will sue. LC has strong meeja law skillz, beeyatch.

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Annie said...

Please don't sue me, I'm warning you now, I don't have any money.

Now, I'm taking it on trust that you are in fact a real person, but it could be argued that this character 'LC' is fictional (- looking at your avatar, sans nose or mouth, I'd say definitely fictional), would gossip about a fictional character stand up as slander in court, Mr Meeja Law?

LC said...

I'd have a good case against you I reckon - mostly because a large enough number of people who read your blog know me (or have at least met me) in real life and associate the moniker with yours truly. So I could easily argue that any libelous comments directed at 'LC' would be injurous to my good character.

Your best defence against such a case would be to claim 'satire' due to the frivolous nature of our online relationship. Other than that you would need to be able to prove that your outragous allegations were true.

I promise not to sue you though. Coz I like you.

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LC said...

(Sorry, btw, my shonky old computer is playing up and I keep accidentally double-posting.)

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Annie said...

Damn, called my bluff. No use instructing my barrister Mr Footman to employ the post-modern Baudrillardian hyperreal-simulacra defence…

In that case, I take back that story about you, Natasha Kaplinsky and the redhead out of Girls Aloud in the toilets at Burger King.

Thank you for not suing me.

Anonymous said...

Can I just add a cosy, wintry-evening, red-wine nod of approval to your nice exchange? Keeping me entertained as I transalte for England (or peanuts). (Tim isn't a lawyer on the side, is he?)

Anonymous said...

Translate, sorry. Spellcheck has disappeared.

Tim F said...

Can I sue someone for calling me a lawyer?

Istvanski said...

Here's an example of who ends up reading my blog (according to shitemeter):

Time of Visit: Mar 14 2008 8:52:21 pm
Search Engine: google.co.uk
Search Words: big middle age tits

Funny thing is, I think I know who this visitor is, and it's starting to worry me.

llewtrah said...

I get lots of military visitors, but they are my friends dropping in from newsgroups (seeing as I am part of the sinister military-industrial-corporate complex).

Boz said...

Am utterly thrilled: Google has just informed me that someone found my blog with the search term 'batmonkeys'.