[thenightwriterblog] The Night Writer: What are you looking at?

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Posted by The Night Writer:
What are you looking at?
http://thenightwriterblog.powerblogs.com/posts/1178079325.shtml


   I've noticed something unusual in my blog traffic the last month or
   so: I've been getting a lot of http://images.google.com referrals.
   Unlike the Google-search links I used to get where certain
   word-searches brought readers, these are driven by photos.
   Ok, I've posted quite a few photos here in the last 2+ years, so that
   image searches shouldn't be too unusual -- except there appears to be
   a certain pattern to the images being viewed: they're either people
   who want to view the "Loch Ness Monster Truck" evidence photo from
   last May...or people who want to see a picture of the Mall Diva in a
   prom dress.
   It's hard to keep a thorough list since my Sitemeter account only
   registers the last 100 visits, but as of 15 minutes ago 77 of the last
   100 visitors to this blog had come from image searches; 18 of these
   were Loch Ness Monster Truck driven and 16 were led to see a photo of
   the Diva and her cousin in their formal gowns. Another half-dozen or
   so wanted to see the photo of the bruise on MD's knee from last fall's
   Paintball outing. That's actually a significant decrease for that
   particular photo; one month recently my Powerblogs tracking tool
   showed more than 800 referrals to that image from a website in Taiwan!
   Are there not enough lovely things to look at on the internet that
   people have to come looking for an oversized tire in a loch, a couple
   of well-dressed girls or a close-up of a naked, discolored knee? Are
   there that many fetishists out there living in their mom's garage,
   surfing the internet so they can ogle and drool over a photo: "Ooooh,
   it's a B.F. Goodrich!"
   I know I should be glad for the traffic, but frankly it's beginning to
   creep me out.