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Friday, October 05, 2007

Weird analytics

To keep an eye on who's visiting my site from where, and what for, I mainly use Google Analytics. It tells me lots of interesting stuff. Like yesterday I got a hit for someone searching for wisley common doggers photos, which is weird, because I don't even know where wisley common is.

And, for months now, I've been getting about ten visits a day via someone searching Google for "joanna's diary" labels debate.

It's not a whole load of different people. It's one person, living somewhere in the London area, using Internet Explorer 6.0 on an ISP called Newnet.

Is this you? My best guess is that you've bookmarked that google search and are using it to link to my site each day. For some reason.

Unless anyone can think of a better explanation? I've not discounted it being a weird Analytics bug!

Lauren Close  I have to admit that when I read this, I started wondering what other word combinations could be used to find your blog.

So, err, if you find a bunch of weird searches in your logs from one other person living in the London area, then that was me. Thinking I was being funny. Ha ha. 
Stacey  I actually do know this dogging site!! I was driving home from a friend's house round the M25 and needed a nap - it's my age you know. I pulled off (I could have worded that better perhaps... ) and found a nice quiet place to park. When I told my friend later she was highly amused at the location I had stumbled on and what it is well known for. No connection to the nearby Royal Horticultural Society I guess? Of course not. 
Jessica Shannon  It's an analytics bug, it puts the traffic source in a cookie then fails to expire it, it's really annoying and messes up loads of our stats.

Check your own cookies too, the vars begin with utm 
Anonymous  I inadvertently did something similar. I had a blonde moment when I bookmarked your blog and linked to the september archive. No problem up to the end of sept but then I began to wonder why there were no new posts.
As you see I have un-blonded myself and returned to the sanity that is redheadedness and found my error.

Nicky 
Anonymous  Wisley Common, incidentally, is by the A3 in Surrey between Guildford and the M25... Not sure how that helps though. 

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