Know where your visitors come from?
After reading a post on Dennis Howlett’s blog I decided to take a look at the statistics for our site on feedburner.
Most of the keyword strings used by our visitors didn’t surprise me. However, some of them were more specific than usual and some gave me a giggle. One visitor in particular is obviously not in favour of the Semantic Web as can be seen by their string 
- paul walsh web2.0 – I didn’t realise I had a version number.
- Paul walsh firefox Ireland – now there’s a specific string! I hosted a Firefox party in Ireland last year, so perhaps they were looking for me after remembering they met me at the party.
- Semantic web rubbish – this is my favourite! The Semantic Web is far from rubbish. It’s good to get visitors who use a string like this as it means we have a chance to convert them with the content on our site.
There were lots of search strings for other blogs and companies mentioned throughout our blog/site, so I hope they clicked through to find the content they were looking for, especially if it was your blog.
Why don’t you take a look at the statistics on your site and see how people discover you online. Feel free to drop by with a comment to tell us about the unusual or funny strings. Drop me a comment if you want to learn how to gather these stats on your blog and we’ll write a post about it.
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Are you running WP version 2.11? If so – check out the WordPress Blog – you need to change immediately. If not – no worry. (I’m still on 2.1)
Jag – thanks for the warning
We’re using 2.0.2. Our entire Web site is based on wordpress so we need to be sure it’s very stable. In fact, we stretched WP beyond it’s limit to find that 2.1 incorporated some of the code we re-wrote.