On A Lighter Note…

Posted on 11.16.06 in General and there are 8 comments.

I was looking at my stats today and here are some of the search terms people apparently use to find my site:

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mother teresa feet claiborne
laura bush secret life
OLD MISS PINCHER ALL VERSES
how to get rid of top eight on myspace
mazda 5 remove seat
famous filipino people from poor life
biography of filipino’s famous person
life, allegedly
gompf stick wikipedia
Mother theresa feed hungry jesus quote
“oh my God” Jars of Clay meaning
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Gompf stick?
Old Miss Pincher All Verses?

Clearly the search engines have some work to do if people find my site searching for things that I have never heard of!

Am I a famous filipino?

Cool.

(On a sidenote, I love looking at my site stats. I even wrote a rap about it. Really. Anyone else addicted to their stats?)

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I have a like/hate relationship with the stats thing.

I like that I can see what page (like yours) people are linking from.  It reminds me to come to your page, like I’m doing now.  I profit from it.

I *hate* the numbers.  Working in radio offers a quantified, researched, non-stop referendum on my personality.  I’m doing a morning show by myself.  If people turn it off, well, guess who they don’t like?

I don’t need more of that.  Argh.

(On a sidenote, I love looking at my site stats. I even wrote a rap about it. Really. Anyone else addicted to their stats?)

I wanna hear the rap you wrote. 

Brant,

Working in radio offers a quantified, researched, non-stop referendum on my personality.

I would imagine it would be really unpleasant, especially since you can’t see them turn it off so you never know when you’re really connecting or not.

A morning show by yourself? That sounds hard. How do you do that?

I suppose that since this a just for fun for me, I like to see what I can learn from the stats. I like to see and think about the posts that got a lot of readers but few comments or the posts that got lots of comments and not as many readers. I suppose I enjoy psychoanalyzing it all.

My favorite part is trying to engage people. There are so many people who read this blog faithfully and never comment and I love trying to think of ways to involve them.

Cristy,
Soon.

I like to see where people are coming in from.  What attracted them?  Was it a Technorait search, or a Google search, or what?  Did they find me from someone else’s blog?  What is Cachinator doing up at 1 am checking blogs?  Can I get the social security, passwords, and shoe size from their hitting my site?

Okay, maybe not the last line, but I do like the info it gives me on how.  As to how well I’m connecting with my audience, I can tell that pretty well based on the comment volume.  I mostly use the stats to see if new people are coming in and why.

And I agree that it’s got to be hard to do a solo radio show, both in terms of the work and the ego effects.

Not addicted to stats, but desperate to hear the rap.

I think the number of comments is misleading, so when it comes to judging interest, the stats are likely helpful.

I can speak from experience in talk radio:  There were times (and are times, even in the current format) where I EXPECT lots of calls and input, and don’t get it.  I think, “Wow, that died...” then hear later, from several sources, that at least some people were left thinking and mulling, and remembering that moment months later.  Ironically, they didn’t respond BECAUSE it connected.

Conversely, if you want a big comment reaction, you can be uninteresting.  Too wit:  If I want the phones to go crazy on a radio show, I need only mention a narrow-interest subject.  “You know, I’ve been thinking about what it must be like to raise an autistic child...”

The phones will explode with parents of autistic children.  Important subject, sure, but it’s narrow in focus.  It’s precisely that it’s narrow, and irrelevant to many potentially, that will generate response.

Also, the more mundane and concrete the topic, the more response you’ll get.  (Krispy Creme, or Dunkin’ Donuts?) Topics that are more challenging in terms of ideas are less likely to get a phone response, anyway.  Not sure about blogs.

Also, obviously, timeliness is huge.  Talk about hypocrisy before Haggard, you’ll get a response.  Talk about it immediately after, and it’ll be much, much bigger.  Same topic, different day.

I type too much…

Brant

You are certainly a famous filipino.  The most famous of whom I’ve ever read her blog at least.

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