Over the last few months, I have been posting infrequently on this blog. I've been taking summer a little easier. Also, I hadn't been checking the tracker that keeps the count of visitors to my blog. Recently, after posting an item about Billy Mays and Steve McNair, I looked at the sitetracker and saw that my blog had a huge spike in "viewers" through July and early August. Previously, the highest number of people stopping by my blog had been 545 in October of 2008, leading into the election.
In July, last month, 3,225 people visited my site. This month, 955 have already clicked on.
The reason?
In August of 2008, I posted a few thoughts about female sports reporters in locker-rooms covering sports and included a photo of Erin Andrews. I took the photo from a Google image search. I see that whenever an image is linked to a blog, that link is referenced on websites if an image gets used. So, in July, when the story broke about Erin Andrews being videotaped nude in her hotel room and people were looking all over the internet for photos, the thousands that came to my website probably were looking for the nudie pics.
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Yes, I have a feeling some of those folks may not have found what they were searching for when they landed here. HA!
I don't know about you, but I find that rather amusing. :D
Daisy, yep, I find the whole thing amusing as well. I have posted lots of "hot topic" type stuff but nothing came close to getting the kind of response that Erin Andrews did.
There was no way that I was going to post nude still shots either.
No nekkid lady sportcasters here? Darn!
I had a high of 508 hits the day Mike Trivisonno's wife died. Knowing what the people were looking for, I then posted links to the WTAM site and Ohio Media Watch.
Gotta love search engines. Normally I get the out of the ordinary hits from people looking for info on old wrestlers or Lawson's Chip Dip, which you can only get in the Ohio Circle K stores.
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