Two Things: Comments and Searches

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At the end of each day, there are two things from my blog that make me happy:

     1)  Meaningful comments, and

     2)  Search referrals.

First, meaningful comments add a lot of value to the post.  Whether the readers ask a question, share a memory, have a different opinion, tell about themselves, or like your work – you feel good when they express it.

And I say ‘meaningful’ because there are two bloggers I've seen who copy-paste their comment on blogs they visit – I saw one of them's same comment in about 15 blogs within one day.  Cracks me up.  Obviously, when I notice such practice I usually delete theirs from my space because they’re just spam to me.  Call me mean or whatever, but I look for quality over quantity, thank you (don't you?).  And then there are comments from some wonderful people, bloggers and non-bloggers alike, whose comments, questions, or stories make me happy!

As for 2), it’s smart for bloggers (and website owners) to install a widget or enable a gadget on their blog to understand their traffic and visitors.  One of the features of such tool is ‘search referrals’ or ‘search words’ – what a person anywhere in the world searched for, and either scrolled past or landed on your page.  So basically, out of the million page results for a query on a search engine, when your site shows up in the results, the search query is recorded in the tool.  This way you, as a site owner, can perform a ‘Keyword Analysis’ to see what was searched for and how you can improve traffic on your website.

There are several other visitor stats that the tools provide to measure website performance, but I'll tell you why ‘search referrals’ make me happy.  Some searches specifically containing the word 'spusht' feel great,  because it makes me feel what I shared was worthwhile, and someone out there wants to come back to read.  Bloggers will agree with me, because after the amount of effort they put in blogging, their reward is when someone is particularly looking for their work – right?  And then there are some searches that make me smile, some have interesting questions, whereas some make me scratch my head thinking for answers, and I really love reading each of them.  Yes, each one of them.

And it’s true.  Queries searched on engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc may be listed in the site owner's database if the tool, for example Google Analytics, is enabled.  This is just a fact many people will not tell you.  That's why you have me  :D

So, I shared what made me happy, from my blog, not about blogging (there’s so much to write about the it; some other time!).  Do you want to see some examples of search referrals / search queries / search words that I'm talking about?

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