Dedric Mauriac: Another life from the first

The wordpress software that I use for blogging has its limits. My blog is actually hosted on the wordpress.com website, so many things are outside of my control. One thing that I miss from my old self-hosted wordpress blog was the ability to record search terms and referrers. Today the wordpress folks implemented a feature to let me see overall stats for the past 7 days, 30 days, quarter, year, and all time for both search terms and referrers.

And here is where my traffic comes from:

1. Second Life: New World Notes - 322
2. Lewies Blog - 160
3. iGoogle - 158
4. Second Life: New World Notes - 101
5. Calling all builders, businesspeople and budding fashionistas….educators, entertainers, and more… - 97
6. Topsites Gateway Page - 80
7. Google Reader - 79
8. SECOND LIVING: A Former Subscriber Looks at “SECOND LIFE” — by MERLYN BAILLY - 77
9. Blue Hair | PodShow - 62
10. New World Notes: SOCIAL ANIMAL - 60
11. MRO SHOW ** LIVE ** - 59
12. Sweet Second Life - Daily Top Blog Posts on Second Life - Powered by Social Rank - 53
13. SLUniverse Home - 50
14. Dedric Mauriac : BlogHUD : Second Life blogging system - 49
15. World of SL - 48
16. Lewies Blog: Blog Archive » Making real money in Second Life - 41
17. New World Notes: DEDRIC FINDS SEARCH - 39
18. Sweet Second Life - Daily Top Blog Posts on Second Life - Powered by SocialRank - 36
19. Dedric Mauriac » home - 35
20. Your2ndPlace | Our Realities. Our Worlds. - 32
21. SL Forums - Invisible ‘cell shading’ help needed - 29
22. Bloglines - 29
23. WordPress Next - 28
24. WordPress Dashboard - 27
25. Blogs: Die Welt trägt Schwarz > Kleine Zeitung - 27
26. New World Notes: Pick for Pay: Dedric Discovers Profile Picks Payola - 26
27. Metaversed has CLOSED | Metaversed.com - 25
28. What Is This Crap? - 23
29. Second Life · Reading RSS feed titles in Second Life: my new gadget · Shaping Thoughts - 20
30. Netvibes - 20
31. Bloglines - 19
32. Bloglines - 18
33. Google Mail - 17
34. DrFran Does SL - 17
35. Bloglines - 15
36. The Grid Live - 15
37. De l’avenir de Facebook et de nos données personnelles - Standblog - 15
38. SecondServer - Trade&Services Directory - 15
39. Marcus Endicott’s Second Life Travel Guide - Second Life Bots - 14
40. Bloglines - 14

Here are my all time stats for what people are looking for when they find my blog:

Search Views

1. sl clothes previewer 177
2. dedric mauriac 176
3. force prophecies 88
4. dedric 80
5. take it or leave it game 56
6. sl clothing previewer 31
7. anti-idle camping adventure 26
8. wordpress blog 23
9. csco 19
10. build a sim 19
11. .net 2008 19
12. nasdaq:csco 18
13. “force prophecies” 18
14. clothes 18
15. live community blog.tv stickam ustream j 15
16. sl-clothes-previewer 14
17. avipainter 14
18. force prophecies sl 14
19. shoulder pets 13
20. take it or leave it games 12
21. sl clothes preview 11
22. aubretec 11
23. second life clothing previewer 11
24. sl skin 10
25. sl clothing preview 10
26. sl stores 10
27. second life herald 10
28. sl store 9
29. second life clothes previewer 9
30. second life programming 9
31. second life skin 9
32. “jonny petrova” 8
33. free christmas drama 8
34. second life clothes 8
35. “dedric mauriac” 8
36. linden lab competitions 8
37. virginia tech in memory of 8
38. mauriac 8
39. sl clothes 8
40. yxes 8
41. wordpress blogs 8
42. sl previewer 8
43. shading second life 7
44. second life clone bot 7
45. dunk tank 7
46. second life 7
47. pot healer adventure 7
48. cartoon halo 7
49. paradise blanket 7
50. second life anti idle 7

I love this. I can get a good idea of what type of sites my traffic is comming from. I can concentrate on similar sites, or reinforce my connections with existing sites.