October by the Numbers

Time for another round of blog statistics! Read on for links to the most popular posts of the month and a list of intriguing search terms that led readers down this Crooked Road.

Top Posts:

• Odin’s Eye at the Nordic Heritage Museum
• Seattle Writes with a Little Help from My Friends
• Stalking Asgeir Trausti (he’s ba-ack)
• What to Make of Mozart’s Bad Boy?
• Reykjavik Writing Jam

(Probably the return of a certain Icelandic folk singer is due to his sold out show here in Seattle this month – that I missed!)

I personally have high information needs, so I go to a lot of trouble to find useful links about the topics I write about. I always like to see what readers are actually curious enough about to click for more information. Turns out, they rarely are, but here are the

Top three outgoing clicks:

• My friend Jennies’ post about health care over on WYS Words
• The home page for Hjalmar, Iceland’s first reggae band. Formed by Asgeir Trausti’s older brother, members of this band also provide backing for Asgeir.
• Nordic Heritage Museum and Iceland Naturally

Top Search Terms

There was a lot of overlap in this month’s top search terms.

In the top 10:

• 3 were variations on the question of Asgeir’s dating status (Why does this always come up, instead of searches about his music? Is it because I put “Stalking” in my title?)
• 3 were variations searching for Angelica Generosa in PNB’s production of Jewels
• reykjavik swimming pool

Among the more unusual search terms this month:

• I won’t quote directly for fear of generating further search results. But it involved my name and documents of an explicit nature that are usually saved as a jpg file type  (the mind reels)
• how does will in through black spruce go into a coma
• hop her (I have no idea…)
• don giovanni and what is the opera about (omigosh, I think I’m being used as a source for a school paper)