I’ve noticed recently that my blog shows up quite often in some pretty varied web searches. I’d like to think this is because I’m putting up some useful content, and I guess I’ve got a pretty solid PageRank. I gotta say it’s pretty cool to type a random phrase into that little text box and see your site pop up as the second or third result in Google.
I also realized on our trip to LA last weekend that I’ve got a larger audience than I ever expected. We were at a reception in Alexis’s home town for post-wedding greetings and I had numerous people whom I had never met before come up to ask, “what does ‘blog’ mean?” I guess Alexis’s parents had given out my URL to people who asked what we were up to on our honeymoon so they could follow along.
I’m thinking that I should consider participating in Google’s AdSense program to offer some unobtrusive targeted ads to people who might come across my site looking for “t-mobile t610 bluetooth gprs osx”, “bad rss”, or even “osx x11 emacs”. I can’t find a lot of information hooking it up to Moveable Type though, anyone seen a simple pointer for it? Perhaps tonight I’ll setup AWStats to get a better idea of exactly what people are coming to see…
Update: AWStats installed and configured.
