Stats from MySpace.com?
You might be asking, what does MySpace.com have to do with hunting and King’s Outdoor World? That is a good question. One I asked myself recently when I was looking over our web site statistics. Lately I have been finding more and more hits coming from MySpace.com. What is MySpace.com? Well, I am not here to plug this web site at all (too late). If you have been oblivious of the news recently about this teen hot spot, then do some news searches and find out the latest.
Back to my point. The internet can be a beautiful place. A place where you want to find things that interest you, photos of huge deer and elk, and people to interact with. MySpace.com is a huge (did I mention very heavilyHowever, I will not let me kids on the web site and am very careful about were they go and what they do. In fact, my nine year old daughter has her own blog. However, it is behind a password protected page and only gives the password to her close friends and cousins. She actually had her blog going before I did (it was a good testing site for me but don’t tell her that).
So what’s your point? OK, let me get to my point. Lately I have noticed an increase of hits from MySpace.com that seemed kind of odd. Just yesterday, there were a total of 523 hits from this domain to www.kingsoutdoorworld.com. After doing some investigating and following return links, I found that there are a bunch of kids out there that love King’s Outdoor World and the images that we have on our web site. This is good right? Well, yes and no. Most of all of these hits come from images that they have posted on their personal pages that reside on our site. For example, our Magnificent Seven is a definite favorite. Linking to it displays the image on their web page, but I now have to pay for the bandwidth and the fact that others are using our images without permission (definitely a problem I continually face). But they are just kids right? Yes, they are. And it is good to know that in their list of favorite hobbies and interests, they have an image of a record class muley and a 400 point bull instead of something else. Maybe our kids today are going to be just fine.
2 comments May 2nd, 2006
