And another thing
Because I may have made a few of you too paranoid to do searches with my previous entry, I’ll offer a consolation prize by telling you exactly how private your presence is here. See that little tiny speck up in the left hand corner? If you click that it will take you to my tracking page. I can’t see much there. It does track the last 25 IP addresses that have been here but that’s not something I check because I don’t really care. I usually look at the first referrer info because that shows me what page people clicked to come in here. It doesn’t show me if you typed my url in your browser or if you came in via a bookmark; it only shows me if you came by clicking Holly’s links, for example. (I use her for my example because a bunch of you come in from there.)
This is how I find out if someone new is linking to me or if my hits go way up from somewhere, I go to see if they mentioned my blog in their daily entry. And I used to see a bunch of people stalking me on google but my stalkers have disappeared as of late. I’m not sure if it’s because they already found me or if there was something specific causing people to stalk me that’s no longer in play.
And that’s pretty much all I can find out about you.
That should relieve some of your anxiety. I know I have a couple of friends who like to read here but feel obscurely guilty and weird about it and are afraid that I can watch them everytime they click. So don’t worry; I can’t see you.
I always wondered what that little box in the corner was…thanks for clearing up the mystery. Obviously I wasn’t curious enough to click on it–or was I being careful? Sometimes clicking on unknown clickables is bad.
I do the same thing on my site!
-d
I wasn’t paranoid. Not..at…all…
but really, thanks for letting us know about your tracker, cause I’ve been looking for a free one myself for a while!
Did the “stalking” on Google involve searching for terms that you’ve mentioned here?
The IP Address Locater is interesting. Thankfully it doesn’t pinpoint our house, but instead puts a dot at the location of the office of our Internet provider.