Sitemeter traffic increase

Posted by Greybeard on Jan 9th, 2012 in News and weather | 0 comments

I received an email from Sitemeter today with my monthly report.   Upon checking,  I found that I had about a 50% increase in traffic this week.  So, it was off to their site to see what kind of people were suddenly showing an interest in my blog.  Let’s see,  there was a post about  a 2nd ammendment speech by Newt Gingrich,  with a link to the speech, NOPE,  that wasn’t it.    There was another post complaining a bit about the lack of security on my wife’s new Motorola Xoom,,, NOPE. My “Light a Candle” post,  illustrating to the Brady Bunch how I intend to help stop gun violence,  NOPE. And back a little further,  there were Merry Christmas and Happy New Years posts,  NOPE!

It turns out that nearly every one of the extra hits, was on the post entitled “Jan 5th, Weird Weather” ! A good number of the hits were from a googlebot,  looking for “weird weather”,   but enough to be significant were humans,  typing in a search for “weird weather”. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,   Weird!