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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Weirdness in my referrals

Over the past couple weeks, there has been a significant increase to the daily traffic to my humble blog. I finally noticed that much of the traffic was from mostly overseas visitors seeking out a picture of a Dodge Magnum SRT 8. Now, I blogged about renting a Magnum back in June 2005 when I took a trip to Ohio and I even linked to a picture of the SRT version in the original post. And all the linkages I was seeing in my referrals went back to that archive page, which was odd, because there's no picture of an SRT 8 Magnum on that page.

But look what I found when I dug into this a little bit this morning. Here's the Google Images page. Now click the first picture in the top left corner and see what happens. You get sent to this link to my archive!

And by clicking the link at the top of that page, it sends you here, where the photo actually resides on the old internet! Somehow, the owner of that photo, or Google has incorporated my archive address into the URL that is the link under that first photograph. I really don't understand how that connection occurred at all.

But I'm not complaining because it is bringing me 12-15 visitors per day!

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