Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Strange blog hits

This fall I started getting a lot more hits on this blog. While I was quite happy about this, I found it odd because I don't really add content too often. I thought perhaps it was because of my post about seeing Lindsey Vonn. I assume there are many people around the globe that regularly search the internet for Lindsey. I would guess those that found this blog are many pages into their search results before they get here. Like my appreciation for small ski mountains, I also appreciate my small readership! I used to work for a company where there was a person whose job was to keep track of internet posts about the company. I discovered this when she sent me an email commenting that she came across my coaches bio on our ski team's website. That profile mentioned that my regular job was with the company. There is a traffic counter on the blogger dashboard that shows where the prime hits are coming from...I am getting hits from an amazingly inappropriate web site. A quick search on Google showed many bloggers are complaining about this issue as well. I wonder if it is a person or just a machine that is hitting this blog? Either way there is a pervert behind it. Because I don't subscribe to the full suite of information you can get from blogger, I don't have complete information about the traffic. Currently, to my relief, the two main hits are from the Google search engine and something from Russia that appears to be a search engine too. Much better but why is someone in Russia worried about, and searching for, little ski area skiing in the Eastern USA. Anyway, as I sat down to write this morning, my intention was to talk about the nice early season skiing happening in the East. I decided as I started, to change my cover picture and write this instead. I am simply trying to write about the joy of the sport through the experience of skiing, mainly, at little ski areas. How about the great early season this year!