Friday, September 12, 2008

The Wily Web

Since I just updated the design of the blog I figured I'd create a bit of a geek post and review the blog stats:

How people get to our blog
40% of visits come from people who either bookmark or type in our blog address directly.
8% Link to us from our friends Lane and Whitney's blog
8% Find us through Google

What are people searching for when they find us
Our top search term is "Lucia Gattuso" (my sister) who has confessed to narcissistically googling her own name to find our blog.

The next few searches are the expected Gattuso Family blog type searches.

Interestingly we get a bunch of links from people looking for Burger Farm, Cincinnati. We blogged about a trip over there about a year ago.

Any weird stuff in the search report

Here are my favorite searches that sent people to our blog that are just random:

"birthday flowers for a biker chick"

"gattuso in shower" !!!

"gattuso's wifes picture"

"rockstar houses for rent Bahama's"

and my favorite,

"gattuso taking pants off" !!!

To elaborate, there is a relatively famous soccer player from Italy named Gennero Gattuso who (you 'd be tempted to think otherwise, listening to my dad) is no relative. So i'm guessing some of these searches where meant for him!

Where are our visitors coming from?
Most our visitors come from the US, followed by the UK but we've had visitors from 47 countries. In the states we've been visited from 38 of the 50 states the highest being Ohio, Kentucky, Utah and California in that order.

For the interested I get the stats from Google Analytics which is really easy to add to your blog and provides a wealth of fun facts about the visitors to your blog/website.

4 comments:

Anonymous,  September 12, 2008 at 9:49 AM  

Love what you've done with the place! I still need to figure out how to use that tracking feature, its geeky but cool at the same time.I too have quite a few Beck-isms to add to your list.

Anonymous,  September 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM  

and the tartan because?????


By the way - great to see Izzy walk.

mum/sue

Anonymous,  September 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM  

Hmmmm..there are some worrying ways to find your blog!!!! And American 'pants' or UK 'pants'?....either way, a disturbing thought!!!

But great that my name gets another mention....ensuring another year of finding my way back to the heart of the Gattuso family activity, state-side.

Lucia x

Anonymous,  September 16, 2008 at 4:36 PM  

Spelling never your strong point, Mikey. It's 'Gennaro'. Do you know he's not related, mm? You only have to look at him to sense that he is.

Dad GATTUSO