Stats from MySpace.com?
May 2nd, 2006 David King - King's Outdoor World
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.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Travis Gillies | May 6th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
I am a 24 year old college student and full time employee in Phoenix. I grew up in a small town in Utah and am an avid hunter and outdoorsman. I use myspace, unlike the younger kids, to keep in touch with all my buddies from high school, as they are spread all over the world now. 4 in Iraq, 2 in Afganistan, 1 in Korea, 2 in Germany, 4 in Alaska, 2 in Montana, 1 in Colorado, and 2 in Wyoming, who are all from my town of Beaver in southern Utah. It’s great because everyone can interact with everyone else all at once unlike email where only one message at a time can be sent. We are constantly “commenting” each other’s sites with pictures of huge bucks or bulls. Interacting with each other over myspace gives us all the release we need from the rat race of city life, the dangers of crab fishing, or the horrors of war. just wanted to let you know that your right in your article, our kids are going to be just fine.
2. John Dicus | October 10th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I find some of my photos also linked from other’s websites.On occasion I will go and add my URL as a trademark on my pictures, then load them all again to the server. Then each person that is using my phtotos is also showing my url as ‘www.rivenrock.com. Who knows how many people go to my site when they read these little adverts other people are giving me.
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