I'm sure if bothered to focus this blog on one topic - i.e. "classic films" or "challenges of being a dad" - and posted regularly traffic would really take off, but that's not what I'm about right now.
I'm going to ramble from day to day. Maybe you find something I write of interest. Maybe you don't.
Speaking of which, what a lot of people seem to be finding interesting right now is something I posted way back in November 2007.
According to Google Analytics, starting back on July 22 this page suddenly became very popular. Look at the graph.
That post about some M.C. Escher inspired image I found on Boing Boing currently accounts for 31% of my pageviews.
Wild.
But why July 22? What happened then to make it so popular?
The Google Analytics report shows that nearly all of the traffic is coming from Google, and all from people searching on M.C. Escher (or something similar to that term).
When I go to Google and search on "m.c. escher" - the search term sending the most traffic to the page on my site - I don't see my blog post anywhere in the regular results.
However, when I look at the image results for that same search term I see the image that I embedded in my blog post shows as the 7th item in the list of images.
So I know the "why the increase in traffic?" - that image is right at the top of Google Image searches. Plenty of people are seeing it.
But I still don't know why the image from my blog got ranked so high or why its popularity exploded on July 22.
At this point I don't think I'm inclined to dig any farther. Exploring the popularity of the page was an interesting diversion and I've had my fun.
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