And there I go again, writing what I want to call an SEO blog and then putting a title on this post that guarantees nothing. But I am currently a self-supporting SEO (i.e not looking for clients) so who gives a shit if my posts here rank for anything. So I can disappear like J. D. Salinger for periods of time and really not care too much about it. There are just other things to do and I write this blog for shits and grins now. I just linked to fricken Wikipedia, for crying out loud. That’s because I am lazy and don’t want to explain shit. And, damn it, I like cutesy titles and mixing unrelated topics together and seeing what comes out on the other end. It’s called analogy. So I figured I could at least be nice enough to define things a bit. I can do SEO on the other sites that make money and just shoot the shit here.

Calling it bragging rights. And then there was the phase about a year ago where I really didn’t have much to brag about, so I stopped writing and went back to building things so I actually start claiming again that I made good money online. This blog and let’s call it social media mania were responsible for at least a part of the loss of income. I was having too much fun and not doing enough work. WOOT, traffic to a blog that now has a PageRank of 5 to get me freelance jobs I really don’t want to do. So I slowed down a bit on both and just watch myself. I guess is like alcohol or gambling.

Blog Stickiness

But you know what, the traffic at this site never really dipped much. It has been very slowly but steadily growing. And the feature that did this has been built in almost since the day I started this blog. These lists here get the majority of traffic on my site. The people that use them stick around a long time because they are long lists. Most are from India, but what can you do.

You will notice that those lists are on pages. That’s because posts can drop out of Google quicker especially when you are posting a lot. Yes, posting often is a two edged sword. You can get more traffic by posting often and filling your blog with content. But you can also go through periods of crap posts. I know all about crap posts. And after about ten of those in a row, your search engine traffic bearing posts are buried. Chances are your highest ranking page is your home page. It is generously boosting the last ten posts of your blog and whatever links you have in the sidebar. And if those posts are bad, then you better hope your good posts got some generous links from other bloggers, because you are helping those posts by writing bad posts on a tight schedule.

But not every type of content should go on a page. You learn to notice the difference between pages and posts after a while. You can say that posts are timely content, but there are plenty examples of posts that stand the test of time and are current for years. But they don’t quite fit the “page” type content slot. So how to you help these buried timeless posts.

I simply use a blogroll category here. At the time I was hunting for a featured posts plugin years ago, I couldn’t find one that worked like I wanted it to. Plus by just adding these posts to my WordPress links, I could control the anchor text and mold it however I wanted. Knowing that I would add to this list from time to time, I add the php_exec plugin and wrote code to pull a random 7 posts. That way I could keep the widget under control and satisfy my need to check if semi-sitewide links pack more punch than sitewide ones. Reload the page and the featured links change.

This also helps keep people on my site. I put what I consider to define what my blog is about despite my random walks down random topics. But how do you find yours?

J. D. Salinger wrote “Catcher In The Rye” and that’s about all he had to do to have people wondering where the hell he went for decades. You and I probably don’t have the next Great American Novel in us. We have our stats, we have our comments, we have social responses and we have our pets. I know I have my pets. Those posts I write and am just jittery about. Where I know I said exactly what I wanted to say or I wrote something that I never knew was in me just by starting to type. And I am going to feature them whether you like it or not.

Use Google Analytics to find out which posts get the most hits from outside of your site. Make those posts your “Featured Posts”. There are some “SEO” WordPress plugins out there you can purchase that will do this for you automatically. But you will have to do a bit of editorial work and make sure you want those posts to rank. I had a post here that used to rank for “girls with nuts”. Google took two words from the title, smashed them together and bam I beat the porn seos.

Comments are a good indication of popular posts and topics. Only a small percentage of your visitors will comment. And it seems I can finally say this now. The Noise/Signal Ratio in comments increases with your traffic and/or rank in the blogoshere. So this takes some editorial work also. And there is probably a WordPress plugin out there to rank your posts by comment count too. There are so many now, it’s hard to take the time and do the research on them for a post. For anything your want your WordPress blog to do, there are probably 5 or 6 free plugins that will do it and you can search for and install them from inside your WordPress installation. A post about WordPress plugins is almost stupid any more. The WordPress plugin search in your admin is almost Google. Just type what you want and it appears.

Putting links to your best and most popular content on every page will not only be a great housesitter for your blog while your away, but also keep those visitors around longer, finding more posts they can’t help but read.

But I Haven’t Been Sitting on My Ass

Yes, you may think it ironic that my last post about using Windows Live Writer was about 40 days ago. But I have been writing posts. WordPress 3 has really helped me explore my interests. I am currently running 3 WordPress Multisite Installations each on it’s own Virtual Server. In fact this blog, StephanMiller.com is squatting on top of this blog and the shortest domain I own.  And the two links before the last two also go to blogs on this server, one where I write about server issues as I deal with them and the other is waiting for me to write about this whole blog network deal. And I also have this blog about Android phones because I love mine. I thought mobile, smobile before I got it and now I am “fuck, I got to catch up”.

The idea with these blogs is content that people come back to, refer others to, bookmark in case they need it again. The server blog got traffic the third day, as well as the android blog. No pressure on posts except usefulness. Usefulness over prolificness. And the tight topics almost guarantee that Google as well as users will like them. I wrote about writing while learning a long time ago. It is one of the best times to blog. It is one of the only times you will be able to talk like the newbies your blog will appeal to. And almost any time forum results show on the first page of Google for a query, a blog can eventually kick it’s ass. Just saying.

That post was 3 years ago and that’s about how things go. There are so many things you can do to make money online that some projects can wait for a bit until the tools fall into your lap like WordPress 3′s multisite capabilities. There was WordPress MU before that but it was a different animal and to use plugins from regular WordPress you had to modify them. But in the meantime I learned more about VPS’s on the job and learned how to wildcard and park domains in Virtualmin. Once all the parts came together, I can now create a new blog in about one minute. Of course it takes a bit longer than that to set up but every theme and plugin I used on every blog in the network is already there. I don’t have to hunt them down and install them for the new blog. Perculation is good and good ideas rise back to the top when they are ready. There is a way to monetize any content.

So if you can write it easily, do so, and come back later to see what happens. If you get mounds of traffic great, if not, the act of writing helped make you learn more fully what you were going to learn anyway. Either Win/Win or just Win. But both ways, worth it.

I also have been writing software. The Google Scraper software I wrote is pretty popular for the limited market I thought it would have. So I am reading the second edition of Code Complete because I need some help. I know a lot of progrming languages. That is not the problem. I was at one time trying to limit this. That was because of a bad experience of using just two languages. I always confused the two. But after learning three programming languages, it seemed to get easier and easier to learn in another by diving into writing real life software in a brand new language with a browser open for searching functions. This year I added IronPython, Flash/Actionscript, PyQt and C# on top of Mono .

I just know at times I am sloppy and there has to be faster and more efficient ways of doing things than jumping right into the code. I still look at ERD or any one of those three letter diagrams and understand them but don’t get it quite right when I try to take my idea and put it in that form. But I’m trying. Automation and software have made it possible for some of my disappearing acts. 4 Hour Work Week my ass but I’m working towards that direction. And I am starting to think I am on the wrong side of this affiliate equation right now. Picks and shovels or selling the right products through affiliates or both.

Don’t get me wrong. I still have a part-time day job. I do make decent money affiliate marketing. These together provide for my whole family and it’s the affiliate marketing that makes it possible for me to dick off writing these posts and maybe squeeze out some time to write some software. Multistreams of Internet Income and seriously, that was actually the book that got me started in all of this.

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I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down. Sometimes I see if they will pop back up on their own. The ones that do get focus. But I always give them a little freedom. That way they can tell their friends that I am a good home. And then I wait on the friends.

Here are some random ones on SEO in general and WordPress in particular. My blog seems to have focus bands like the power band in a dirt bike, following the hats I constantly change to keep this internet machine going. Welcome to an SEO focus band. It took a few months of dealing with WordPress, but I think I’m on a roll now. I am the type of person who tears a car apart piece by piece to see how it works, puts it back together, and then goes to the manual for the technical terms to explain what I found. It takes a while, but it is well worth it and only makes your mind stronger.

Once I can write a post that covers everything blogging and fits my vision, it’s time for me to start my other blogs up, because that means all the bits and pieces of ideas came together into a blueprint. A very adaptable blueprint, because change is the only common denominator in progress, but a blueprint nonetheless. This isn’t a blueprint but it’s signs of one to come and that makes me happy.

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Some WordPress SEO Plugins

• All in One SEO Pack – Set Titles and Meta Tags in your posts.
• HeadSpace2 – Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many other goodies
• Dagon Sitemap Generator – Generate sitemaps for your blog
• Simple Tags – I hated the whole switchover to integrated WordPress tags. The plugin developers did a better job. Then I finally found this plugin. Sweet
• Related Posts – There are so many versions of this one that I am not even sure which I have active on my blog. But the Simple Tags plugin above has this fucntionality built it.
• Landing Sites – Not sure if this would qualify as an SEO plugin, but it takes the query from search engine hits and presents the visitor with a list of posts they may be interested in, based on that.
• Homepage Excerpts – It depends on how paranoid you are about the duplicate content penalty. It allows you to set the length of each post on your home page. On my blog, I have the whole content of the last post on the front page and excerpts of all the rest.
• One Click Installer – Not an SEO plugin, but it makes installing plugins easier.
• Permalink Redirect – Makes sure all links to a post go to the same place.
• Alinks – Helps a lot with internal linking. Automatically links keywords and phrases in  your post
• WP-PageNavi – Adds a better navigation menu (not just next and previous). Allows for deeper linking to older posts.

Random Widget Links for Varied Anchor Text

This could work for a Featured Post plugin or a Blogroll.

I looked at my blog as if it were the whole of the internet. My own little private internet here has 450 or so pages indexed by Google. That means that the links in my Featured Posts widget (which is really a Blogroll to begin with) link to the same pages with the same anchor 450 times.

Anchor text should vary. For one, it will help you rank for a bigger variety of key phrases. For another, if you don’t vary your anchor text, you could end up like John Chow.

Whether or not I have to worry about the second reason, I’m not sure. The first is good enough to have me take a look at things. I figured out two options, still using a Blogroll category as Featured Posts.

• Have a bunch of featured links. I am not sure if I have enough to do this yet. But have about 50 featured links and only display 10 at a time, using the random function and the PHP executable widget or by using this widget.
• Or if the variety of featured posts you have is limited, you could recreate the same blogroll in seperate blogroll categories but use different anchor text each time. Then, using the PHP executable widget, randomly pick one of these category sets programmatically when the page loads.
• Or do both. Mix up your anchor variety. Have random posts to prevent sitewide link issues. It should help keep visitors on your site too if you featured posts are different every time they come to your blog.

Random Anything for Longtail Phrases

I didn’t have this section in the original draft. But I thought of it while I was researching the last section. I ran into this post on random WordPress widgets. I like a little bit of randomness. I don’t think you can have everything so planned that a random seed thrown in every once and a while will totally mess things up.

A percentage of my search engine hits on every site that I have dealt with have been on subject matter I have never covered. They are the result of the different elements on the page blending together. For example, Google will pick up one word from a title on my widget and one word from a comment and one word from the title of the post itself and I will get hits for the phrase built from those three words. I get a lot of hits daily that work like this.

Can I do anything with those hits? Not when they are occurring. But I could get an idea for another post, especially since I ranked high for the phrase without trying. You can never really guess every longtail key phrase. Let randomness do it for you. You’d be amazed.

Encourage Comments

Comments add content. Content that you could not have created yourself. Encourage them in any way you can.

Use Your Google History

If you used a phrase to find something, someone else will. But this doesn’t mean you found the answer you were looking for the first try. I have received a steady stream of hits based on posts I geared around the phrases in my Google history, especially after long research session. I get a lot of "newbie" geek hits because I use less than technical language. So not knowing the correct terminology does pay off. People that do use the correct terminology probably already know about the stuff you are writing.

Conditional NoFollow for Sculpting Pagerank

Some pages on my site have higher Pagerank than others. If I wanted to funnel the Pagerank of that page and direct it like a laser to another page, I could use WordPress conditionals to nofollow almost everything on that page except the link I am funneling the Pagerank to while leaving the rest of the site dofollow. On a blog, the pages that rank high are not necessarily the ones you want to rank high. I am not sure of the feasibility of doing this on WordPress, but it’s an idea. And it works. I have used this tactic on non-Wordpress sites.

CommentLuv and "query" for Super Targeted Backlinks

If you haven’t learned this one you should. I am not talking about spamming. If you write a post on "Google Adsense", wouldn’t it be great to get a backlink with anchor text from a page that focuses on "Google Adsense". By searching Google Adsense "CommentLuv", you can find these pages. You will be getting a link back plus adding a related link to the blog you are commenting on, thus adding to the conversation.

Infrequently Updated Blogs and the Top Commenter Plugin

This I found out by accident and it probably does skate over the line a bit. If a blog gets few comments and is barely updated, it may still have some Pagerank because high Pagerank doesn’t necessarily indicate high traffic. One comment will get you a sitewide link for a while depending on how they have the plugin setup. Some change monthly. Some use "all time" top commenters. Like I said, it was an accident. I am not hunting for these blogs specifically and probably not worth the effort anyway but it’s grist for the mill.

DoFollow

I don’t really look specifically for DoFollow blogs much any more. I did at one time. But the lists and custom search engines for DoFollow blogs are not updated enough and I spent more time looking than commenting. But if I am reading a post and notice the comments are DoFollow, I do dig deeper and look for ways I can add to the material presented.

Find the flagship articles on your blog. Do a Google search using terms you think someone would be using to find your article. Find other blog posts that show for the  terms you used. Leave useful comments at these blogs. Instead of linking to your home page, link to that article.

Find the keyphrases you rank high for through your stats software. Replicate the search. See what position you are in. If it is less than #1, check if there are other blogs in the results. If so, do the same as in the paragraph above.

Keeping Your Archives Page Open While Writing

Remind yourself to link to your other posts. Just keep your archives page open in another tab. When you are done with your post, browse through your post for phrases and keywords that you can link to other posts. When I write posts in longhand, I circle the phrases because I know I have covered the subject matter before.

Silo Sites

This I have yet to look into enough to write about it, so I will direct you elsewhere. The basic concept in to break your site up into vertical topics so that post in each topic benefit from being around like posts. Great if you have a blog that covers a wide spectrum of ideas.

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Silo Web Design

Trackbacking Top Google Results

Okay, so you can’t rank high for the post you are going to write. But you can piggyback off of other posts. And since you just wrote something related, you should be able to contribute. So pick blogs with top Google results for the keywords you are targeting every once and while and link them from your post. Bloggers travel the blogosphere. Regular people use Google.

Optimizing Through Images

Yes, you can go this far, but you don’t have to. If you get a change, name your images with keywords related to your post. Also, do the same with the Alt tag. It takes less than a minute and could help you out.

Excerpts Instead of NoFollow for Duplicate Content Issues

Your category pages and the like duplicate the content of your blog. Google doesn’t like this. And of course, since Google owns the internet, we have to change this or else they will act like a five year old and take their search engine home. I call it an information delivery monopoly similar to what the church had before the printing press. Some say to use nofollow tags on links to these pages. Some say use excerpts of posts on these pages. I go with the second option.

NoFollow Unimportant Pages

Pages like "About Me", "Privacy Policy", and "Advertise" usually get a link from every page on your blog. They don’t need any search engine ranking. Don’t give it to them. Nofollow the suckers.

Use BloggingZoom

Not sure when this one is going to go in the Google crapper, but for now, one submission to BloggingZoom equals a backlink for each tag you use from a highly targeted page based on that tag. You can’t beat that. Now I only pick and choose. I don’t submit everything. In fact, only about 4 or 5 posts so far.  I don’t want to create a lopsided link profile that will take part of my site down when another one goes down. Time spent getting links is best spent a little a time in as many places as you can. Know of other sites like this, leave me a comment.

Don’t Try to Reinvent the Wheel

Just get to know it better. Search engine algorithms are based on sound ideas. On page, search engine algorithms are based on the way emphasis is given in a written work and off page, search engine algorithms are based on the way ideas spread through society. SEO is reverse engineering the search engines algorithm. But the algorithm itself was reverse engineered from the way we process information. Why not go to the source?

Think of your post as an article in a magazine. The main heading or title states the main idea of the article. Heading below that state the main ideas of each section. Search engines put a premium on the keywords in your H1 tags with a lowered premium on headings that are smaller. Just creating a good structure for your post is good SEO.

More WordPress SEO Tips

These were just random thoughts. Here are some more posts to take you further:

On my blog:

• Looking At Links
• Spread Your Feed
• Tools for Commenting
• Looking At Links Again
• Old School Marketing Can Help Low Traffic Bloggers

On other blogs:

• WordPress Master Class for Competitive Niches
• A Blogger’s Guide to SEO
• Optimizing WordPress Page Titles, Post Titles, and Page Slugs
• WordPress SEO

SEO as an Afterthought

I never write a post specifically for the search engines. I write without them in mind. After I am done, I go back and see how I can pump up the rankings for the post. That was just the disclaimer for any claims of me being a robot.

Some of these are utopian based on the fact you actually have the time. For me, the post is most important. After that, I use the time I have to do what I can. But it’s good to have the tools available. That was just the disclaimer for "But you didn’t do that here."

Many of these tactics can be use wrongly or artificially. That is not the point of this post. Guns don’t kill people. People do. Use your ammunition correctly and none of this could be even construed as Gray Hat. That was just the disclaimer for the fact that I didn’t used to care what hat I was wearing, but I do now.

A few of these ideas I haven’t used yet and were doomed to the notebook. I figured a post would put them to better use. That was just the disclaimer for "That won’t work."

And I am well aware that each one of these sections could have been a post. They just seemed to fit together quite nicely. And sometimes fleshing something out with filler until it’s the size of a post is not good. That was just the disclaimer for "God damn, the scroll wheel doesn’t work on my mouse." I have one at home like that.

There is more than one way to get traffic to your blog. I see a lot of emphasis placed on what I consider dynamic links. This is traffic from commenting on blogs that use nofollow, getting stumbled, getting your site on Digg and the like. These type of links depending on someone physically clicking the link to get to your site. This is a great source of traffic and deserves just as much attention as any, but I think that using it at your only source of traffic is limiting.

One reason is that many of these links pass no rank to your site. Stumbleupon and any other site that uses nofollow don’t help one bit with your ranking in search engines. Digg might help a bit since it doesn’t use nofollow, but I included it in the list above since it tends to bring with it server crashing, but useless traffic. Stumbleupon for the most part does also. In fact, people have had their Adsense accounts shut down after being stumbled because their Click Through Rate dropped so far. But for the most part this type of traffic is momentary. The moment might be long or short but it ends as abruptly as it begins.

I also listed commenting on blogs that use nofollow, but I will have to qualify that, because it depends on where you comment. I get consistent hits from comments on John Chow’s blog and ProBlogger, because they get a lot of traffic and they have lots of post that new readers will go back and read. Both John Chow and Darren Rowse use nofollow on their comments but they write a lot of content that will stand the test of time and continue to be read for years. The traffic from each comment is a trickle but it builds with each comment.

So if I think of most of these as dynamic links, what other links should you be looking for. The type of links that don’t need to be clicked on to bring you traffic. They will bring you traffic by increasing your rank in the search engines. This is not earth shattering traffic but it can become that over time. And it’s traffic that you don’t have to jumpstart every time you use it. While I am not suggesting taking weeks off of blogging, you could and the traffic will not stop. To keep Stumbleupon or Digg traffic going, you have to get more and more of your stories submitted. If you rank well in the search engines because you have chosen your links wisely, you make short step forward in building traffic that you can set and forget.

It is as simple as getting links from sites that don’t use no-follow and can be as complex as you want it to be. Despite Pagerank being called useless by many, it is a good indicator. The major search engines still use links to a site as ranking factor and Pagerank can give you a quick insight on the link juice a page can give to you without getting too complex. It just simple to remember that a link from a site with higher Pagerank is better. If you get a choice of anchor text (the text that gets the hyperlink), even better. The SeoQuake Firefox addon has a feature that will draw lines through links that use nofollow tags. This helps a lot when hunting down places to get links from.

Here is a short list of ways to get these type of links:

• Write and submit article to directories.
• Comment on blogs that use dofollow.
• Write or have software written to submit to software sites.
• Write an ebook, zip it into a file and submit it to software directories.
• Give away a free WordPress theme or sponser someone else’s theme.
• Find and use networks like MyBlogLog that offer high ranked links back to your blog and your most recent posts.
• Being active in forums and using your signature.

This is why I have built pages of place to find links for your blogs. Each time I discovered a new category, I built a list for my own use. Then I thought what the hell, give them away. They are all in a serious need of an update except for maybe the video list, but I am getting to it soon. I am writing software to do it for me.

But the best way is to be alert. When you run into a website or blog that ranks high, find out why. Use the Google toolbar as an indicator when you are surfing. When you run into a high ranking site, use Yahoo Explorer to see who links to the site. Once you discover the value of this research, you may want to step up to software like SEO Elite. A little bit of money spent on automation will save a lot of time.

Also use a combination of the SeoQuake addon and the Google toolbar to scope out social networks that pass pagerank.

What you find through this research will be interesting. You will find many links that fall into the normal run of the mill mix. But every now and then, you will find something new. And eventually, coming up with ways of getting links to a site will become natural to you, even without research.

A few tricks I have noticed when getting links:

• Using something other than your name when commenting on a dofollow blog.
• Refering to a related post in a comment on a blog.
• Commenting enough to get on a blogs to get on the top commentators

A lot of this seems SEOish and unnatural, but it pays to know where your time is best spent, if what you are looking for is traffic. All links do matter to some extent and I am really not this analytical about picking links. But it is helpful to at least know the basics. And some of this can be really boring quickly, especially submissions. If you have to be bored, might as well know your work will bring in traffic.

I mean to keep these a regular monthly thing at this blog until I can start doing income updates. Right now that is not worth mentioning. Once this theme is done, I will turn my focus on trying to get more money out of this blog. I have had some results from Widgetbucks and the Text Link Ads Inlinks plugin and both can only increase with traffic. I have yet to use any paid review system, still tossing the idea around. I have no ads on my feeds as of yet. But I hardly know all the options yet with new ad systems launching daily.

The numbers have steadily increased for another month of steady blogging. I have yet to try any methods of gaining traffic and subscribers except through MyBlogLog, commenting on 5 to 10 blogs a day, posting almost daily here, and staying active in Cre8buzz.

Not much of an increase, but steady. I have yet to try anything like giving things away, contests, Blog Carnivals, or heavy link baiting. My feedburner subscribers always goes down on the weekends because, I guess, of less frequent posting.

About a month ago, I decided to cut out the B.S. and start writing every day, except for Sundays. I am not religious. That is just an agreement I have made with my family not to open this laptop one day out of the week. It doesn’t mean I don’t write. Sometimes I do in a notebook I keep for the purpose. At first, I though this day off plan would mess things off. After a few weeks of it, I see the benefits. No tunnel vision and more drive to do this stuff. I wake up on Monday morning ready to go. But on with the results in traffic.

I know these results will be a joke to many of you, those of you that have hundreds of subscribers, those that rank above 100,000 in Alexa, and those that have a PageRank of 6 in Google. But for some of you, this will show results. Keep in mind that during this time I have spent time with my family, worked full time, been active writing on another blog, ran Adwords campaigns for affiliate products, designed this theme, built a working set of WordPress plugins and have tried to stay active in a few social networks.

I have also discovered David Allen and Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity , which I will be writing a review of. I got the audio book and listen to it on the way to and from work every day. It should take 4 days to get through it this way. The book is perfect for this business. I had too much on my plate not to have a system of organizing it.

It does help to write something daily. Duh! I also helps not to assume that if you write it, they will come. First, some starting stats. I wish I had more accurate representations of these, but I have to rely on my memory for some. My Google Pagerank stayed the same, of course. That rarely changes. I will focus on my Alexa rank, Technorati rating, Webalizer stats, Feedburner stats and a few weird things maybe some readers can help me figure out.

My subscribers went from 24 to 57. Not a lot of subscribers, but it is over double and if I can double every month that would be great. My Alexa traffic rank went up 367,551 in the last three months to 286,776 with an average for the last week of 160,341 and my reach increased 116% over the last three months. Page views increased 189%. At Technorati, my authority doubled to 27 and my rank increased 100,000 to 236,176. My webalizer stats don’t show much except for an increase in hits and bandwidth, but not really visitors.

Now for the weird hits.

This is from the CGref plugin. I have no idea who Stephan Siwiec, Whitney Gaskell, or the Drake Motel is or why so many hits come from their sites, but Google and MSN Live love me. The MSN Live hits only started coming recently. Before then I wrote any Microsoft based search engines off. Never got any hits from MSN worth counting. Yahoo needs to pick up the pace though. And SU users really like the lists I created.

Well, there’s the placeholder. I froze this moment in time by creating a post. Next month, we will see what happens.