How Do People Find CSR?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:04 am
I haven't had very much time this year to look at CSR's stats, but I did so just now and got a few surprises. I was always amazed when some blog would report 1 million hits, knowing that at most 20,000 people visit CSR in a month. But there's a difference between "hits" and "visits", and in checking the stats I find I've had over 6 million hits this year! I still think the more significant number is unique visitors, and I've had 155,000 of them since January, which isn't bad. I'd been a little worried late in 2009 when I think we were down to maybe 8000 visitors one month - financially, it makes no difference since CSR is supposed to lose money (which it does brilliantly), but I was "worried" in the sense that I feared I might soon be playing to an empty house and that maybe no one would use the new bulletin board.
So, where are all these people coming from? They're broken up into three very roughly equal groups: (1) those who came from their own bookmarks (return visitors); (2) those who were referred by a link on another site; and (3) those who came via link from a search engine.
The principal referring site right now is Chross, which is unsurprising given his large number of visitors and status as a kind of spanking crossroads (no pun intended).
When it comes to search phrases, I don't have such a variety that I want to play "keyword chaos" as Bonnie does sometimes on My Bottom Smarts, but here's a few of the more and less common ones this month:
More Common (not including obvious ones like "Chicago Spanking"):
So, where are all these people coming from? They're broken up into three very roughly equal groups: (1) those who came from their own bookmarks (return visitors); (2) those who were referred by a link on another site; and (3) those who came via link from a search engine.
The principal referring site right now is Chross, which is unsurprising given his large number of visitors and status as a kind of spanking crossroads (no pun intended).
When it comes to search phrases, I don't have such a variety that I want to play "keyword chaos" as Bonnie does sometimes on My Bottom Smarts, but here's a few of the more and less common ones this month:
More Common (not including obvious ones like "Chicago Spanking"):
- comic spanking
superhero spanking
wonder woman spanked
fumetti con ragazze spank (this was a surprise, and it was used 26 times!)
supergirl spanked
batgirl gets spanked
- vampirella spanking buffy (interesting that this worked, because although I have this cartoon I never posted it)
captain woodshed spanking (a fair number of people were looking for this)
kirk stiles cartoon
lil abner spanking daisy mae
bend over (one of my favorite phrases)
qq (this was used 6 times - don't ask me how it worked!)