Or why some people think, that blogs are evil

Since I have this little counter gizmo which also provides access tracing on all the pages of this blog, I have been observing some of the access pattern. Surprisingly, it seems that most accesses come from random strangers by referral of a search engine and most of them by accident...

I can easily understand how blogs, with their sequence of unrelated topics in close proximity on a page, can confuse search engines and searches alike. Any rare combination of search-terms, even though spread over adjacent but totally unrelated articles can make even the most obscure blog, like this one bubble up to the top ranking of a popular search engine. In order to be more search-engine friendly, I have reduced the number of full-text entries in the category listings. Let's see how much it helps.

The other common source of hits are typos - mine and the searcher's. It's quite amazing, how many hits can be generated by close misspellings of what appears to be a popular search term - or at least a commonly misspelled one. When I become aware of such a typo, I fix it.