Analyze This { & Let's Connect! }

A few months back, I recommended Google Reader as a great way to keep track of blogs. That's a great resource for people who read blogs.

If you love to blog yourself, try this: Google Analytics. For the casual blogger like myself, who has earned a whopping $30 total from AdSense, Analytics is just a fun toy to play with. It tells you where your traffic is coming from, how many people visit your site daily, what they look at and how long they spend. (Although that last one is extremely unreliable from my experience.)

It tells you fun stuff like what keywords people typed into Google to find your blog. My most common one, consistently, is "Book Thief Quotes" or "Quotes from the Book Thief." However, the more random and amusing ones from the last month include:

1. Can frosting be frozen for later use?
2. are there true that love is all about beauty?
3. sabucol
4. there is beauty all around
5. 7 confessions austrian celebrities
6. bhl blah
7. chokecherry tree chill
8. costco owned by mormon
9. difficult mormon mothers
10. flashback thinking the brain
11. hot young living mom
12. i hate being a mormon mom
13. lds vanilla extract
14. lucky 7 blog
15. mormon wedding night (folllowed closely by:)
16. mormon dirty secrets
17. psychology and unopened gifts
18. roast wrap in plastic wrap
19. the lds ugly animals
20. umcka and fda

Huh. Makes you think, doesn't it? That was my most unusual 20 from the 130 search terms used to find this blog. I have no idea what sabucol or umcka are. #2 up there didn't even make sense to me. At all.

So if for nothing else, Analytics is always good for a laugh or two. Maybe a good snort when you see how people found your site through Google. Go sign up and enjoy. Email me if you have any questions about how to add the code to blogger.

p.s. My very loud children make the telephone even more antiquated than it already was. If you use Google Talk, add me to your list so we can chat! Leave a message here if you don't have my email address and I'll figure out a way to get it to you. I'm also (sadly enough) connected to Windows Messenger, ICQ, and Yahoo IM nearly all the time through Trillian. It's how I stay connected, so if you have an IM client, let's connect!