June by the Numbers
I have heard about website ranking before, but never paid much attention. This month I stumbled across an article discussing how your Alexa Rank could affect your odds of scoring a press pass, and thought I would check it out. As in golf, the lower your Alexa Rank, the better. Anything under 100,000 is considered good. After googling “how to find the alexa rank of your blog” I discovered that this website is ranked 17,182,514. Whatever. I’ve never even heard of Alexa before anyway.
Alexa Search Terms
With such a low ranking, most of the other statistics were not available, but it was interesting to note that the search terms identified by Alexa were similar but not identical to the ones on WordPress:
| Keyword | Percent of Search Traffic |
| 1. asgeir in the silence | 72.25% |
| 2. neumoson a whim | 5.50% |
| 3. asgeir press quotes | 5.20% |
| 4. death metal opera | 3.73% |
| 5. pubs the golden circle | 3.56% |
At first I couldn’t figure out what #2 was. Then I realized it was a typo for “Neumos on a whim.”
WordPress Search Terms
According to WordPress, the top search terms leading to my blog in the last month were:
| gemma alexander blog | 6 |
| asgeir girlfriend | 6 |
| asgeir trausti girlfriend | 4 |
| pacific nw ballet giselle |
Wacky Search Terms
Although it wasn’t the best month for wacky search terms, I did get these:
Masks of omnivores (because this?)
Never can tell trumpet (maybe this one?)
Boys who swim in the nude (probably this one)
Top Visitors
Predictably, the U.S., Iceland, Canada, and the U.K. remain the top countries for readership, but I had to look up the Åland Islands thanks to a reader there.
Top Pages
The top pages in June were:
| Book Report: The Story of the Blue Planet | 40 |
| My First Time | 38 |
| Stalking Ásgeir Trausti | 31 |
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About The Author
GD
I'm a freelance writer in Seattle specializing in parenting, arts and the environment.