Traffic Patterns

Back when I made the post “A few comments” I set up Google Analytics on jinksto.com to better understand how the traffic here works.  I forgot about it and went back later to check on what things looked like.  That’s when I discovered that I had set it up improperly and had no content.  Since December (when I fixed it) the site has gotten about 823 page views in 516 visits.  That’s almost nothing but that’s ok because I’m trying to understand how/why people that view the site do it not get famous. 

Analytics tries to determine a lot of information about each visit.  Primarily, where it came from and how you got here.  So?  Most of my “hits” come from Google of course.  Because I write about a wide array of topics the search results are interesting but nothing terribly exciting so I can’t report that someone got to my page by searching for pictures of Natalie Portman nude or Elvis’ Birthday (both top searches today) but I did get a few neat ones.

What IS interesting is that the largest majority of hits comes from the Google Search, “carolina time site:jinksto.com” so one of you was looking specifically for the Carolina Time post (which is entitled Everything is Satisfactual for future reference).   So, not only did someone think that this post was worth sharing, they thought it was worth sharing about 70 times?  There were also hits for “north carolina site:jinksto.com” which finds the same post.  Strange.

Other hits that I found interesting from Google?:

“wishing a stoic man happy birthday”
Ok, I guess that fits given my “Happy Birthday” post from last year.  Interestingly, Rob and I are still discussing building the room that’s discussed in that post.  Only now he’s decided to do the basement instead.

“tiny bubbles in my rear”
For most of these I think about them for a bit and come up with a better search term that would help the person find what they’re looking for.   For this one all I tried not to think about it at all.   Actually there were a lot of hits for “tiny bubbles” this was just the strangest of them.  Hopefully people found the “Tiny bubbles…” cadence listed on the post of the same name useful.

how to make wine like the old folks make it
Which found my Redneck Wine Makin’ Guide.  Hopefully that helped someone out but I got more comments on the Strawberry Wine post

“best lady’s handgun”, “ladies gun – handguns” and “small handguns for ladies”
There were a LOT of variations of these searches that hit my series on handguns for ladies.  I really really hope those helped someone.  Especially “Handguns for Ladies … Pick One…”.  To the lady that hit my site by searching for “ladies .357 magnum”… God Bless You.  The same goes for the more manageable, “38 special caliber ladies”.

Special recognition goes to the person who searched for the very specific, “if you ask a person to leave your house and they dont want to leave can you shoot them”.  Hopefully the searcher didn’t need a quick answer as those posts are long.  
Short answer: “No”. 
Long answer: “Unless someone is committing a Felony and you or someone else is in risk of grave personal injury you can’t use deadly force to get someone to leave. Check and know your state laws around this.  Every State is different.”  If you’re having a discussion about it with them then you have time to call the cops.  Do so.  The homeowner always wins in a discussion with the police.