Is anybody there except Tom Smith?
February 22nd, 2006
One comment for yes, two for no…
Since I added logins for comments very few people comment on my blog which is a shame because the comments are the reason I do it in the first place. I had to add registration because not only was the spam getting out of control but also there were pages on this blog which became venues for kids bullying each other, saying nasty and stupid things about each other.
So, I moved blog, stopped using my own software written in zope and got a new URL to boot. Despite my efforts I lost a lot of page rank in the move. I had been planning to move a lot sooner but you know how it is. Plumbers taps etc.
Occasionally I check my Google Analytics figures and I’m amazed why and how so many people find my blog. I am bizarrely incredibly good at attracting people interest in music for adverts. Now, I am a fan of both music and adverts but I’ve only blogged about it a few times. Each time though, my blog article has been well ranked and so a hoard of people have turned up and mistaking my blog for a forum on adverts and the music used in them… a whole heap of people have added useful (ish) content. At least when they weren’t destroying some poor girl in 4B they have…
It does make me wonder about things though. For years my biggest referrals were for tit-wank and that United States of Whatever song… I could have cornered the market I could… what market exactly I’ve no idea but it was mine all mine…
So, if you are out there, please leave a comment to let me know you’re there… even better, link to my new URL… I never did get to be No. 1 on Google for “Tom Smith” despite all my efforts. A long time ago I wanted to be No.1 on Google for “Tom Smith”, not for reasons of vanity (well not much) but just because a search for “Tom Smith returns 56,100,000 results. A search for “muck” returns 4,290,000 results. I really, really (and I have no idea why) wanted to be the No. 1 result in a search that was more common than “muck”. Don’t ask… it seemed a good idea at the time…
February 22nd, 2006 at 5:55 pm (#)
I’m not here, nor have I ever been.
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:22 am (#)
Me either…
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:58 am (#)
I am here. Keep up the good work Tom / Tom Smith / “more common than muck Tom Smith”.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:53 pm (#)
I wonder if you are attracting visitors looking for music related content, because you share the same name as people who are heavily committed to the music industry, you have the Guitar site, Big Band site in close proximity.
Does Word Press have a module to do captcha?
February 25th, 2006 at 3:48 am (#)
Of the last five Tom Smith sites I’ve visited, yours is definitely the best!
February 27th, 2006 at 10:21 pm (#)
I still read your blog. Yeah, the loggin in is a pain near the spine. I think I’ve solved blog comment spam quite well on my site and working on a new site where I will publish my little simple yet effective trick.
March 17th, 2006 at 12:58 am (#)
Feels really hard to leave comments now Tom. When I log in (I have to remeber my one of a myriad of account details) I am sent away from the blog entry to my account page, then I have to navigate back to the blog entry - hard to be bothered…..