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Referrers

Even the least popularity-hungry of us does a little ego surfing, a little referrer log checking. Maybe some of us even subscribe to ego-search feeds from Technorati or MSN Search and keep those subscriptions in a folder called "vanity". A lot of the time it's good to know how people are finding your site. You might want to tune the content based on what your visitors seem to prefer; you might want to say hello to a blogger who linked to you. But does anyone really want to know that someone found their site by searching for the word excruciating?

Comments:
Sun, 28th Aug 2005 (22:09)

You did find out I linked to you suspiciously fast. Hours at most after I added the link, you had commented on a post. "Occasionally" seems to mean different things to different people.

by Joe
Mon, 29th Aug 2005 (00:43)

I believe it was the Technorati feed that alerted me to that link.

by Rory

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