Our office is quiet and almost deserted today. The bosses and some important office people are in a meeting about some important office agenda at an important venue somewhere in Metro Manila (I really don’t know anything, do I?). Today is an almost-petix day — a day that rarely happens to me now. I only had to submit an article to several press release sites, check the status of some PPC campaigns, and the rest of day is PETIX! Yey! With today’s “petix” I mean I can do other stuff online that doesn’t have anything to do with work (blechh!), and maybe spend my breaks a little longer, BUT — I still have to sit here for most of the time and pretend I’m working.. LOL. (Just kidding, mga bossing!). :P
Unidentified Blog Visitors
I can relate to what Mae recently wrote in her blog about her website’s increasing number of daily visitors and yet only a small percentage of that actually gives time to leave their marks on her blog. I’ve been checking my blog’s awstats on a regular basis since the day I established its scrawny feet on cyber soil, in order for me to observe its growth and see if it’s actually going somewhere. LOL. But because awstats is such a limited tool, I switched to Google Analytics which provides a more comprehensive data. For this month alone, I’ve had a not-that-high-but-definitely-surprising number of unique visits (mostly coming from the US, Philippines, Italy, UK, Germany, etc, and some of which are brought here “organically” by the strangest keywords!). This leaves me to wonder if the random, first-time visitors who chance upon my blog everyday do get something good and useful out of this crappy site.. Haha. That answers the question why I suddenly put up a couple of ads here and there.. Maybe I’m the one who can get something good out of them. LOL.
Mae has successfully convinced some of her lurkers to identify (or “de-lurk”) themselves by posting a comment on her latest entry. Myself included. Heehee. Good job, Mae! :)
Just For Laughs
Check out this Calvin & Hobbes comic strip that cracked me up. :D
lol i’m here at my office too! but i am a little busy :( and i can’t goof off too much because my boss checks on me periodically (WHY?!? its so annoying)
that calvin and hobbes comic is HILARIOUS!!!
I can also relate to that. From my site stats, I a lot of visits coming from Google Searches. Most of these visitors just pass by, read a post or two and leave without commenting. How you just wish they left a comment right? Hehe
Why don’t you try WP-Slimstats? it does a good job of tracking your visitors and other stuff. I used to have WP-Shortstat but it used up a lot of my DB space so I switched to Slimstat. Let me know if you’re interested, I’ll give you the plugin url. I also use Google Analytics once in a while.
I love Calvin & Hobbes! That strip is funny but true. Kids learn a lot of things from watching TV and most of the time, it’s not the good stuff. :P