I have chalk to thank for at least half the traffic to this website.
Seriously. Chalk.
Specifically this photo, used in this post from early July about the boys playing with sidewalk chalk (and eventually ganging up on me, which is how I foresee most of my anecdotes about the boys ending for the next, oh, 50 years or so). I know this because I occasionally check out the site stats that WordPress helpfully tracks for me (not obsessively, I promise you that, for my site stats become glaringly depressing if I stare at them too long), and every single day at least somebody visits the site after finding it by Googling “chalk.”
And usually not just one person a day, mind you, but several. On Oct. 12, I had a whopping 15 page views on the site; six of them came from people searching for “chalk.” On Oct. 18, the following search terms brought people to my site:
- Chalk
- fussy 3 week old baby frets constantly
- images of chalk
- it’s never too early to start drinking
- handsome approach
- picture of chalk
At least a couple of those folks found some relevant content.
I can’t imagine what these chalk seekers are hoping to find here but I’m quite certain they leave sorely disappointed, as I am not a street artist or a teacher or a crime scene investigator, which are the only three things I can imagine people looking up “chalk” on the internet are hoping to see or read about.
Ah, well, who cares. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
heh.