PageRank and an unexpected audience
I’ve noticed recently that my blog shows up quite often in some pretty varied web searches. I’d like to think this is because I’m putting up some useful content, and I guess I’ve got a pretty solid PageRank. I gotta say it’s pretty cool to type a random phrase into that little text box and see your site pop up as the second or third result in Google.
I also realized on our trip to LA last weekend that I’ve got a larger audience than I ever expected. We were at a reception in Alexis’s home town for post-wedding greetings and I had numerous people whom I had never met before come up to ask, “what does ‘blog’ mean?” I guess Alexis’s parents had given out my URL to people who asked what we were up to on our honeymoon so they could follow along.
I’m thinking that I should consider participating in Google’s AdSense program to offer some unobtrusive targeted ads to people who might come across my site looking for “t-mobile t610 bluetooth gprs osx”, “bad rss”, or even “osx x11 emacs”. I can’t find a lot of information hooking it up to Moveable Type though, anyone seen a simple pointer for it? Perhaps tonight I’ll setup AWStats to get a better idea of exactly what people are coming to see…
Update: AWStats installed and configured.
