by a Thinker, Sailor, Blogger, Irreverent Guy from Madras

533 page views and 13 cents


Whoa!  533 page views on a single day and none of it from a spam site.  Even better all refers exclusively from Google.  This really is a day of note.

all_google_refers

Over the last 3 months, the number of page views have been hovering just above the 150 mark, and the average monthly views at around 5500+ mark.  There have been brief shoot ups, but a good part of them were actually non-genuine, from spam sites, which should not count.

But overall in February, such spam referrals have been negligible, but today is the first day when every single refer has been from Google

An added benefit of getting refers from Google is that my fading memory of the two letter country reference codes is being regularly refreshed.

Today people may recognize these ISO 3166-1 codes (or more precisely ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes) as that used in the internet to denote country code Top Level Domains, like .in for India and .us for USA, but mine goes back to sailing days when the Telex numbers had these same codes to announce nationality.

I remember someone asking me -
  • since the telex we receive on board from our company contains the origin number like 011-44444 NOSUCH IN,
  • whether the telex which the company will receive from us will have destination number like 011-4444 NOSUCH ‘OUT’
8-O

In case you’re wondering what the 13 cents have to do with it, that was the earnings on Google Adwords today.
:-P

monkeyshines_adwords_earnings

Why are people not clicking on those Adwords, so that I can make decent money, like $5 or $10 a day?
:(-(

Since it is such a sad picture, here is something cheer us up!

533_page_views_m

My Startled half stutters, ‘Though this is the first ever time I have seen the GY code active, ever.  Clicking on it takes me to Google Guyana.  Though there are a lot of Indian origin Guyanese, wonder what half a dozen of them found interesting in my blog!?!’

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