Ask (Jeeves) and Ye Shall Receive

So I got around to checking the log files today on my web server. After seeing posts from the likes of Heather D, Christina, and Ashley (not my wife) on last week’s Blizzog Idol finale post, I thought I should check into how people that I don’t know were finding their way here.

It turns out that the foks at the Ask Jeeves search engine have much love for the Blizzog. To be precise, they have much love for the Blizzog’s love of American Idol. Go to Ask and type in “Clay Aiken” and the Blizzog shows up as the last result on the first page! How’s that for some exposure, baby.

Ask Jeeves has referred 186 unsuspecting Idol fans to the Blizzog in the last two weeks alone. That’s almost 4 times as many referrals as our next highest referring site, the venerable JeffTurner.net with a respectable 64 for the month of May. Third place is a tie with Google and Yahoo bringing in about 20 folks this month, followed by my other blog homies Scotty G and Mark Turner.

I used a pretty bad-ass freeware tool called Analog (at http://www.analog.cx ) to get my stats. It’s written in C and runs wicked fast. It’s open source so you can tool around with it if you want, fellow geeks.

A few other interesting tidbits about the results. It seems that my weakness for cheezy reality TV commentary is what is reeling folks into visit me. The Analog software can show what search engine keywords folks used when they found my site. Tops on the list were: “Clay”, “Clay Aiken”, “Andrew and Jen Firestone”, “The Bachelor”, “Bridge over Troubled Waters”, and “Kirsten”. Not too shabby on The Bachelor front since I only did two posts on it.

And now for the most puzzling referral to the Blizzog in the month of May, but pretty funny I suppose. Kids, you may want to skip this part. There is one referral from a page inside the - are you ready for this? - MassiveCocks.com web site. The page itself is password protected, so I couldn’t see exactly what it was. The site is not about larger-than-average farm fowl, in case you were wondering, so don’t go trying to look at it at work. For that matter, don’t go looking at it at home unless you have your pop-up killer turned on.

I’ll leave it to you the loyal Blizzog reader to determine why on earth someone would link to us from MassiveCocks.com. Be nice.