Friday, November 11, 2005
Miscellaneous musings
Writing stuff
Today I guest blogged on
Marjorie Liu's Blog. I hope it's not too lame.
Family stuff and Writing stuff
Did stuff with my son today, will ignore all my responsibilities and write tonight. I'm getting some good work done on my other proposal. Yay!!
Web stuff with Writing business stuff
I was going through my weblogs and here's some interesting statistics: total hits for October 2005 were 44,638. The trend has been basically upward since I got my site up. This is typical of the spike I see when I have a release, but it's still nearly double my traffic from a year ago. 85% of the hits come from within my site - what that means is the people who people come tend to stay and click around. My craft section continues to be popular. The blog is increasingly popular, including the archives. I get some referrer spam, ick. Hate that. But not as bad as it used to be. Lots of traffic from search engines, google and msn are tops, with google far and away the top. So, I'm doing OK with search engine optimization (SEO) I think. My relatively good adherence to web standards helps out there I think.
In the last two months, I've seen a significant increase in bots from blog readers. Remember my prediction not so long ago that writers need to get an RSS feed set up for their blogs? My weblogs prove it. Get your RSS set up and you will have people adding you to their feeds. I have several favorite writers whose feeds I look at and I often click to the site anyway...
Shocker!!
Here's the shocker for me: IE represents a mere 51% of browsers hitting my site. Firefox is 18%. Konquerer makes a good showing. The rest is a mix of weird browsers, robots, spiders and RSS readers.
