I installed web-stats-package Mint two days ago, apparently in a bid to destroy my productivity. Mint is a bloggers’-eye-view of your web stats: that is, it doesn’t focus on what users are doing on your site so much as how they found you in the first place. Mint uses javascript to record data in real time, so you can refresh obsessively and find out, for example, that:
- Everything and everyone you mention by name will get googled, without exception. Mention the fried-mozzarella truck at the San Genarro festival by its brand name of “Mozzarepa”, and the inventor of Mozzarepa will read your post. The inventor of Mozzarepa will read this post about that post, too. It all gets read.
- This will happen all the time. Posts that you, the blogger, think of as old and buried in the mysterious past, will come up every day in targeted searches. Just 16 minutes ago, a post I wrote in 2001 about the magnificently surreal Paso Doble Ballroom in Levittown, PA pulled a reader. Dear God, I hope that reader isn’t the owner of the Paso Doble, or I’m going to wake up in an ice-packed bathtub missing a kidney, or something.
- My Great-Grandmother’s Grand Tour diary pulls way more traffic than I expected for the very reason that she mentions a lot of places and people by name. Unfortunately, the transcriber used “XXX” to indicate “illegible”, though, so that diary also pulls searches for “XXX Donkey.”
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2 responses to ““Thee found my journal HOW?””
Wow that’s cool. I made a search as a plant, we’ll see how good this software really is. 🙂
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Yes indeedy, it’s in there! Here are the last 100 inbound searches, copyied out of Mint:
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what do middle managers do in hard times found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Love is easy; middle management is hard. 2 hours ago
yellow walkman found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 2 hours ago
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http://www.retropod.com/ found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 4 hours ago
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stephen king universe found What I’ve Been Reading: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King 4 hours ago
guerilla drive in found The Guerilla Drive-In 5 hours ago
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Neoprene glued to laptop found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: November 2003 Archives 5 hours ago
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bmw 1200r found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Okay, no sooner had I 5 hours ago
Devon BMW motorcycle found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Motorcycles Archives 5 hours ago
beautiful xxx found Tikaro.com: Anna Thomas’ Grand Tour 6 hours ago
defend.brooklyn found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Screw Defend Brooklyn, this stuff 6 hours ago
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ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 6 hours ago
ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 6 hours ago
ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 6 hours ago
ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 6 hours ago
ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 6 hours ago
ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 6 hours ago
TARA PONTANI found UWG/Pontani Adventure Photo Shoot: everyone in the helmet’s reflection has their clothes on. 6 hours ago
ultimate water gun found The Ultimate Water Gun 6 hours ago
TARA PONTANI found UWG/Pontani Adventure Photo Shoot: everyone in the helmet’s reflection has their clothes on. 6 hours ago
TARA PONTANI found UWG/Pontani Adventure Photo Shoot: Fisher-Price Adventure People sets that were never made 6 hours ago
TARA PONTANI found UWG/Pontani Adventure Photo Shoot: Fisher-Price Adventure People sets that were never made 6 hours ago
ipod cases found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 7 hours ago
trunks xxx found Tikaro.com: Anna Thomas’ Grand Tour 7 hours ago
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Jeez, I wonder which side I’ll have to take… found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: I’m back from Christmas with 7 hours ago
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sell your ipod found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 8 hours ago
ultimate gun found The Ultimate Water Gun 8 hours ago
"Jennifer Fettig" found TIKARO: Defend Brooklyn 9 hours ago
blond jocks found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: After the successful conclusion of 9 hours ago
greyhounds statue roman vatican museum found Tikaro.com: Anna Thomas’ Grand Tour 9 hours ago
bell 47 helicopter manuals found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Projects Archives 9 hours ago
gonna fly now found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Gonna fly now! Flying high now!
9 hours ago
ipod handmade case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 9 hours ago
pictures of an ipod found RetroPod: Pictures 9 hours ago
pictures of an ipod found RetroPod: Pictures
9 hours ago
ipod cases found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 10 hours ago
trampoline room found Tikaro.com: The Best Haunted House in the World 10 hours ago
waterproof walkman found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony
11 hours ago
rudy’s barbershop seattle wall found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: December 2002 Archives 11 hours ago
WHERE DOES JAPAN GET THEIR WATER found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 11 hours ago
neon-green helmets found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: I used a hair
12 hours ago
"lake in woods" campground found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: I crossed my eyes, and 12 hours ago
"lake in woods" campground found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: I crossed my eyes, and 12 hours ago
instructions for making a cannon found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun 12 hours ago
brooklyn shirts found TIKARO: Defend Brooklyn
12 hours ago
motorcycle/rotary wankel engine found Tikaro.com: The 2001 Turkey Pro National 12 hours ago
sony ipod stereo found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 12 hours ago
retropod found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony
13 hours ago
drive in movies found The Guerilla Drive-In 13 hours ago
drive in movies found The Guerilla Drive-In 13 hours ago
instructions on how to make an easy rubber… found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun
13 hours ago
amish pants found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Blogging, Banjos, and False Modesty. And Amish pants. 13 hours ago
water gun found The Ultimate Water Gun 13 hours ago
accomplishments of Nietzsche found History and Accomplishments of the Ultimate Water Gun
13 hours ago
KNEE SOCKS found Tikaro.com: Introspection Pressure Cooker 13 hours ago
velorex 652 found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Velorex 652 sidecar 14 hours ago
cycle max in honeybrook found Tikaro.com: The 2003 Turkey Pro National
14 hours ago
loews, barbed wire, buy found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: October 2002 Archives 14 hours ago
velorex found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Velorex 652 sidecar 14 hours ago
biggest water gun you can buy found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun
14 hours ago
sony walkman sport found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 15 hours ago
build your own pistol found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun 15 hours ago
ipod case retro found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony
15 hours ago
make your own guns found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun 15 hours ago
interview with claire blaydon found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: March 2001 Archives 15 hours ago
instructions found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun
15 hours ago
history of extinguishers found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun 15 hours ago
genevieve futrelle found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: My friend Genevieve Futrelle 15 hours ago
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15 hours ago
photo Katie Downes found Tikaro.com: John Young’s home page 16 hours ago
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template to make a motorcycle helmet found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun
16 hours ago
ipod walkman case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 16 hours ago
how to build a small waterfall found How to Build an Ultimate Water Gun 16 hours ago
ipod for water found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony
17 hours ago
snickers weight watchers points found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Are you "fed up" with seeing the huskies walk off with the best of everything? 17 hours ago
the ultimate handgun found The Ultimate Water Gun Loan Program 17 hours ago
Gonna me fly now found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Gonna fly now! Flying high now!
17 hours ago
ipod case found Retropod: Shut Down by Sony 17 hours ago
japanese movie monster costumes found Tikaro.com: Kaiju Big Battel: June 9, 2001 17 hours ago
fashion swat found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Something Awful’s Fashion SWAT
17 hours ago
i’m always engrossed in reading found What I’ve Been Reading 17 hours ago
justatip found Tikaro.com: John Young’s Blog: Damn! Someone just used JustATip.com 17 hours ago
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