Usain Bolt is popular on the internet; WordPress is sexy

“One of our most popular features is our stats system. It’s designed to give you up-to-the-minute stats on how many people are visiting your blog, where they’re coming from, which posts are most popular, and which search engine terms are sending people to your blog.”

From The Features You’ll Love

Again, the main selling-point that made me choose WordPress over Blogger was the integrated stats system. I would feel kind of stupid starting a blog on Blogger without having any idea about whether or not anybody was even reading my writing. Also in addition,

1) WordPress is just plain sexy. Not just plain sexy either, but wonderfully, extravagantly sexy. Look at the features page and tell me that’s not beautiful. Now for comparison, look at Blogger’s features page. Enough said.

2) Google owns (literally, not like “pwns”) Blogger. Google already dominates the search engine market share and owns freaking YouTube. Time to give somebody else a chance.

3) It’s easy to find other people’s blogs that share the same interests at you. Compare the homepage of WordPress with that of Blogger. Try not to puke at Blogger. WordPress also has a better sense of community. Actually, I don’t know that Blogger has any sense of community at all.

4) WordPress is a way sexier name. WordPress also has a way sexier logo. Look at Blogger’s logo. What’s that supposed to be? It looks like a freaking cyclops or an oven mitt.

5) I like numbered lists by the way.

So if you’re thinking about starting a blog, choose WordPress over Blogger. Anyways, back to my main topic. WordPress not only shows you the number of views you receive, but the links that people clicked to reach your blog. Not only that, but it also shows you which search terms people used to find your blog. Is that freaking cool or what? It’s kind of like stalking yourself in a way.

So among the search terms that people might use to end up at my blog, I was both surprised and amused by this,

Among those, all but 11 of the times that people searched “usain bolt yams” to find my blog were yesterday.

So I wondered why such a disproportionate number of people searched “usain bolt yams” to end up at my blog. I tried it myself and found the answer. I’m the only blog that matches those search terms on WordPress. I’m also the 4th entry that comes up on Google. Weird, I had no idea that so many people would be curious about Usain Bolt’s yams. I guess it just goes to show that 0.000000000000000000001% of the people on the internet is still a lot.

Actually, this still doesn’t explain why so many people would use those search terms in one day. Weird. Anyways, I’m done with this post. Thanks again to you if you’ve been reading my page. Because of you, my blog was among the fastest growing blogs on WordPress today. It was even number 8 at one point.

Hopefully the ego boost doesn’t make my head explode.

[Update] If you search Usain Bolt dope on Google, I’m the first entry.