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Zeitgeist

Year 2003 Zeitgeist

by john on January 3, 2004

There are three reasons why a small website operator like myself would take the time to publish this sort of information:

# Ego to show off the monstrous numbers
# To persuade advertisers
# Curiosity

Chalk my reason up as #3. Yours too.

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Q4 2003 Zeitgeist

January 3, 2004

It is that time again - another quarter has come and gone.
Average hits per day: 8,119 (+0%)
Average visitors per day: 762 (+62%)

Top searches:

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Search phrase Hits Hits (%) Current Google Rank
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catfish noodling 6599 [...]

Q3 2003 Zeitgeist

October 5, 2003

It is that time again - another quarter has come and gone.
Average hits per day: 8,110 (+158%)
Average visitors per day: 469 (+41%)

That small gap in August was the unfortunate combination of me being out on vacation and a power failure that outlasted my UPS.
“catfish noodling” and “noodling” were the top two search terms in Q2 [...]

Q2 2003 Zeitgeist

July 1, 2003

Another quarter has come and gone here at John’s Jottings. In the spirit of the Google Zeitgeist I present the Q2 2003 Zeitgeist. The data is filtered to exclude traffic coming from my internal network.
Average hits per day: 3,141 (+128%)
Average visitors per day: 333 (+55%)

Q1 2003 Zeitgeist

April 6, 2003

So Joe Millionaire fans listen up, I’ve found a great resource for buying interesting Joe Millionaire related items including mint condition Playboy magazines featuring former Joe girls. Wow, imagine that!
Check out the Joe Millionaire auctions on Amazon.com!
Now back to our regular program…
Spurred on by Eric Barzeski presenting his monthly referral search terms I’ve decided [...]