So, for those of you who actually have a life and don’t feel the need to blog about it, a quick lesson on one of the facets of these online journals.
Most of the blogging services (in the case of this blog, I use WordPress) give the writer tools and statistics about the blog. How many people came to visit, which links did folks click on, what entry was most popular, etc. And, of course, the search engines, like Google and Yahoo!, scan the blogs and make it so that someone searching for things might be able to find them.
WordPress also tells the writer how people got to the blog. Did they click at another Web page to get here, did they type in www.cjgaw.com, or how?
The other day, WordPress told me that a visitor got to my site when they were searching for a particularly, um, icky phrase. And when I Googled that phrase, I found that, on the whole wide Web, this entry on this site is the only one that contains that phrase.
Ew.
Now, I’m not sure what to do. Do I delete or edit that entry, all because of one errant Web searcher somewhere in this great wide world? Or is that just giving in to the bad guys? I work in the tech industry, and I know what’s possible and I know what’s likely…or, in this case, extremely unlikely.
Becky and I have different thresholds for acceptable risks. I like riding my motorcycle. I’d like to take CJ riding. This weekend. I have little understanding of the choking hazard posed by chunks of banana or the allergy threat posed by a variety of peanuts. Once I used the plastic bag from a newspaper as a hand puppet, before realizing that was probably a bad idea.
Becky wants to swaddle CJ in bubblewrap.
“No I don’t,” Becky says, reading over my shoulder.
But anyway. Acceptable risk. More things to think about.
