Sunday, July 3, 2011

How to get people to come to my blog page

I just discovered the "Stats" tab on my blog dashboard page, which keeps track of how many people view my blog and what countries they live in and what pages they are viewing. I was surprised to discover that the posting I made last year about my beard (click here) was BY FAR the most viewed page. It's not even that good.



When I found the "traffic sources" tab, however, I had an explanation. This link tells you what sights people come from when they are directed to your blog. For some it is not surprising: Facebook and email, as I put those up, as well as the blogs of friends and relatives who may have put up a link to mine.



However, the number 1 source of traffic for my blog BY FAR was google searches. Specifically, people searching for Zack Morris. Here was the breakdown of Google search terms that led to people coming to my blog:
I would like to thank Zack Morris for sending so many readers my way. Also a minor thank you to Crown Prince Hamdan and to Really Fat Santa (which likely leads them here) for their contributions. And to the 3.7% of readers who are going to the effort of googling my name.


Friday, July 1, 2011

Flat Stanley comes to Visit!

My niece Grace sent me her friend Flat Stanley so that I could take some pictures of my life here in Dubai. Like a true consultant I put the presentation into PowerPoint and have uploaded the slides as JPG images. I had meant to post these pictures shortly after back in 2010, but never got to it (I have a large backlog of uncompleted posts). I figure every now and then it's good to have a second grade level reminder of what you're doing with your life, and lots of this was news to my sister and mom when they saw the Flat Stanley presentation, so maybe I should share it with anybody else who might care. The beard has since gone by the wayside as I recorded at the time (click here).