The other day I saw a guy with a T-shirt that said "More people read this shirt than your blog."
Over the weekend, this blog, Zombie Lapdance, broke the half-million visits mark. I think that deserves a celebratory blog entry, don’t you?
Now, without quibbling about how many of these hits are legitimately counted, or how many are just google spiders (which visit the blog daily), the question is, where are all these people coming from?
500,000 visits is roughly equivalent to the population of Austin (or Alaska for that matter) reading one blog entry each. Or everyone in my hometown of Portage, Wisconsin reading 50 entries each.
Some of the people I know read this blog on a regular basis, but I honestly don’t know thousands of people. Maybe only a couple hundred. And the blog also gets some of the traffic that normally comes through RevSF.
But that doesn’t explain why the article I wrote about the flood in Wisconsin only had 400 visits, but the articles about mechanical television and wolf attacks did over 10,000. And the article about petrified raccoon hands did nearly 13,000.
I know from my google alerts that a few other blogs reference this one. Chris Roberson did it (thanks dude), and during the Space Squid Mushroom Men contest a couple of gamer blogs explicitly linked here. And there are also a couple of sites that reprint my entries verbatim, presumably as a skeezy SEO ploy.
I can only presume that the bulk of Zombie Lapdance readers are search-engine driven. After all, if you wanted highly authoritative information on any particular subject, you would click on the link that mentions zombies, right?
