The main reason I continue to do this blog is for myself. It gives me an opportunity to post various thoughts and projects I work on. I have learned a lot about the history of hockey while doing research for some of my posts. Doing it for myself helps to explain my posting frequency. I do it when I wanna do it.
But I have to admit, I get pretty pumped when I find links to my blog. Last year a link to my post that imagined if a certain Seals-Canadien trade had never taken place. I stumbled across it while reading the comments on a blog entry on a popular Montreal Canadiens blog. They sued a tiny url to link it so if I had never stumbled across that particular post, read that particular comment and bothered to click the link, I would have never known.
Another time while trying to do research for my Gordie Howe Hat Tricks blog, I found someone on a hockey forum posting a link to one of my blog posts to validate a point they were trying to make.
Just recently, I was checking my site statistics when I notice I was getting hits from Wikipedia. My Perry Berezan: The Lost Cards post is being used as a reference for the Steve Smith (ice hockey, born in Scotland) entry. I have no idea why they would use my post. It just proves you should double check anything you read on Wikipedia.
While finding links takes the cake, getting post-related comments are cool too. For the bloggers out there, do you ever check your traffic sources for your blog? Any in particular stand out to you?
Mine mostly come froom Google or Sal's Hockey Autographs, though he rarely posts there anymore (he still keeps puckjunk updated though).
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