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Kea’s post reminded me to have a look at my search terms (the things people type into search engines to get redirected here). Quite a sobering experience…
Via Google Analytics I learn that 49,51% of traffic comes from Search Engines (compared to 26,17% from Referring Sites and 24,32% from direct hits) so I should take Search Terms more seriously! Above you can find the top-25.
On 1. there is neverendingbooks. Well, some people seem to remember the blog-name, but require google to remember the URL (neverendingbooks.org)…, okay, fair enough. But from then on… all search terms are iTouch related! The first ‘other’ term is puzzle m at 24. and believe me things do not improve afterwards. Here the only non-Touch related search terms in the top 100 :
- neverendingbooks.org (40)
- “puzzle m” (42)
- moonshine mathematics (79)
- necklace algebra (80)
- “calabi-yau algebra (90)
- “dessin d enfant” (91)
- “lieven le bruyn” (95)
- Mathieu group + M(13) (97)
- 13 points 5 lines puzzle (98)
- 15 itouch sliding puzzle (99)
the last one is really touching (sic). Is there anybody out there still interested in the mathematics, or should I turn this blog into a yaib (yet another iTouch blog) ???
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about 2 years ago
Hi It is always this way. Given a choice between reading about itouch (or another popular gadget) and a math book most of the earth population would select to read about the itouch. In fact most people don’t know math well enough to read your not itouch related posts.
Please don’t make you blog a yaib, we have too much of those.
about 2 years ago
What is also interesting is to look at the bounce rate, which gives you an idea of who actually hangs around. You might find the few mathematically minded readers are more interested in your blog in the end.
about 2 years ago
Kea, true enough. The bounce rate is awfully hight with only about 1/4 returning visitors.