So that’s how this works…
Posted: March 17, 2009 at 10:34
I’ve been messing around with Google Analytics a lot lately, and it seems that my most popular post is my nuanced dissertation on the relative merits of this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue versus those of the previous year’s (with picture evidence). Who would have ever thought that a post filled with pictures of models in swimsuits would ever be popular? I guess that’s why the swimsuit issue itself does so well every year.
I do find it interesting that all of the pictures I used are the exact ones available on the Sports Illustrated Website, but I’ve still been getting plenty of hits from Google Images searches. I’m assuming that it’s just some weird quirk of how they’re listed on the website, because I can’t possibly be more popular than SI in google’s eyes.
In a restrained act of celebration meant to preserve the innocence and/or jobs of my readers by keeping it off the front page, there is a bonus picture of Brooklyn Decker after the jump:
Thank you for reading.
UPDATE: as certain individuals, who may or may not have given birth to me, have seen fit to question my assertion that google images is responsible for the hits, I’ll give you the raw numbers: I have gotten a total of 98 pageviews from Google Images (72 unique) on the post in question. From facebook, I’ve gotten two. In fact, the next highest source after google images was straight-up google, which had eight.
It’s not the pictures. I posted that one on my facebook, it was probably just all my friends checking it out…..