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August 31, 2004

I Just Couldn't Be Prouder

Ace of Spades HQ is now the #7 reference for the MSN search "gay hairy asses."

And I owe it all to George W. Bush and Mr. Paul Anka.

And, if you have a blog: Make sure you have your SiteMeter button on all of your site's pages, not just the home page. I get a lot of traffic going directly to my archive pages (the white page with one post on it), but until five minutes ago, I never had my SiteMeter recording hits to those pages. Hits would only be recorded if someone then visited the main page. If they didn't go to the main page, it was as if they never visited at all.

You miss out on a lot of hits, especially regarding your linked articles, if you do it the dumb way I was doing it.

No wonder my one and only Instapundit link delivered me virtually no extra traffic.

I hope I'm not now double-counting.

"Shadowy Connections?": Okay, so I'm number 7 for "gay hairy asses."

Now I'm also #1 (whoo-hoo!) for "the Kerry girls" on Earthlink.

Say-- you don't think that that means...?

Nah. Couldn't be.

Although I'm now going to be looking for Adam's apples on those "gals."

Okay, This Site is Just Plain Filthy Update: And now Google ranks this Top Ten list as the #2 search for "top ten erotica."

Existential Recursion Update: A post noting that I didn't get a lot of recorded additional hits from my previous Instapundit link itself gets linked by Instapundit, resulting in a traffic flood that this time shows up in the numbers.

Now I know how to get Instapundit's attention-- just denigrate his traffic-granting abilities.

This is it? This is the so-called "Instalanche"? I must say, I'm disappointed.

posted by Ace at 04:52 PM

Comments

Somewhere, Mrs. Ace just mumbled aloud: "Such a good boy, he was."

Well, *I'm proud of you. And that's what really matters, right? Right? Hello?

Posted by: Emma on August 31, 2004 05:00 PM

Ace, I read your site through a feed-reader. I only click through to the individual archives. I read your blog daily but rarely visit the front page.

The same is true for my own blog. I get around 1,000 hits a day, but about 500 of them are directly to archives.

Posted by: Rob on August 31, 2004 05:33 PM

The secret is to get your sitemeter to link with the Instapundit's archives....or maybe one of Wonkette's ***Exclusive, must credit Wonkette*** posts.

Posted by: RS on August 31, 2004 05:42 PM

Emma,

My mom is so proud her teeth hurt.

Rob,

Well, if that's the case, then tomorrow should be a big traffic day. Based on your numbers, I guess I'm hoping for a permanent 50% "uptick" (actually, not an uptick, but an uptick in registered visits).

Until now, my traffic has been very consistent, which I guess is/was strange, given the fact that most people will occasionally have huge days when they get linked by a bigger blogger. I should have had more spiking upwards on big days, but I didn't.

Like I said, even when Instapundit linked me, I didn't get more than 200-300 additional hits, which struck me at the time as pretty strange. I was expecting thousands.

Posted by: ace on August 31, 2004 05:45 PM

Today's been a crappy day traffic-wise (which is why I was finally motivated to try to fix the sitemeter glitch), but since I put the meter on the archive pages, I had by far my best hour ever.

It didn't hurt that I linked myself in freerepublic, either.

Posted by: ace on August 31, 2004 05:48 PM

RS,

That's the next step.

Quit frankly, I don't see why CNN.com doesn't put my sitemeter on their site. It doesn't cost them anything.

Posted by: ace on August 31, 2004 05:49 PM

While I'm not high on any overall list, the #1 search term that referred people to my fledgling mumblings is "Misty May big butt".

Posted by: Joe R. on August 31, 2004 05:54 PM

Nice.

Posted by: ace on August 31, 2004 05:58 PM

Yeah, and now that Steven DenBeste is going away, you've got to come up with a new top referrer. Maybe an exclusive photo-shoot of Wonkette and Jessica Cutler?

Posted by: RS on August 31, 2004 09:12 PM

Not only should you put it on every page, but a lot of folks also suggest you should put it as far down long the code as possible. That way if Sitemeter's site hangs, at least they can read the page.

Posted by: Laurence Simon on August 31, 2004 09:22 PM

You finally got your Insta-link, ace. Or has he done it before?

Posted by: Moonbat_One on August 31, 2004 09:45 PM

Insta-readers: Search the archive for "andrew sullivan". It's some primo stuff.

Posted by: Brian on August 31, 2004 10:37 PM

I don't know why so many people fool around with SiteMeter. There's plenty of good site stats packages out there that are better, and free.

http://www.analog.cx/

(see also ReportMagic)

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

A few reasons:

1) SM gets blocked by more than a few site filters/custom HOSTS files (Such as the MSFT MVP hosts file)

2) SM drags your site's speed down. Not hugely, but dayum, your log files are already capturing the same stuff SM does.

3) The degrees of customization you can do with AW is awesome.

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