Bonus- A look at who views my site

When I started this blog 70ish posts ago, it was a blog for those displaced listeners from my former radio station to check in on new music that they weren't hearing on the airwaves anymore. Since then, it has grown nicely to a group of loyal readers, and more people surfing into the site daily. I'm not pulling in super-huge-mega amounts of views, but more than enough to keep the blog rolling. So tonight, I glanced through my Google Analytics account and made some observations.

--Listeners from my radio station are still checking the blog out. I'm glad they're still keeping in touch to see what new music is out there!

--A lot of new people surf in searching for their favorite band. Some are one view and done with the site, some keep coming back.

--Putting the Y2Kroq Top 200 songs of the 2000s list on my site has led to some ridiculous amounts of hits from not only LA, but around the country as people search for it and end up on my blog.

Now, it's not like big brother is watching. I don't have your IP address. I don't know exactly where you live. I just know approximately where people view from and how they get to the site. The majority of the views of the blog are from Philly, Kansas, Missouri, L.A., and New York City. Some other places pop up too. Around the Boston area, Ithaca and Syracuse in New York...I have a fairly regular reader in Mount Holly, NJ.

But I've noticed one city popping up not only on this blog, but basically any other site that I have Google Analytics access to. Fargo. Fargo? Yup. Fargo. And it's all from the same visitor.

Now, normally, I'd be flattered. A very loyal reader. Nice! But it seems like the viewer is more interested in ME than the things I'm blogging about. They arrive on the sites searching for things like "Beej" or "Beej+KBZI" or "Beejontheradio." Considering I don't personally know anyone in Fargo... and my old station's signal fell a WEE bit short of Fargo, well, it's kind of weird. Plus they threw over 160 webhits on the old station's website alone. Whoever you are, um... thank you for your dedication for following me. Whether it's good or bad.

In all seriousness though, thank you to all the readers who check out this blog, no matter how often you surf on in. I also have http://beejontheradio.blogspot.com as well, and I think I'm going to resurrect that one for random brain droppings in the near future.

I'll catch everyone back here tomorrow with another new entry!


-Beej