For reasons irrelevant to this discussion, I wound up looking at http://widestat.com/softsolder.com, which gave this view of my blog (typos in original, emphasis mine):
Softsolder.com has #12,773,578 traffic rank in world by Alexa. … Out of the 6 unique keywords found on softsolder.com, “chicken ark” was the most dense. … This site has Google PageRank™ 3 of 10.
OK, so it’s not a high-traffic site. I can live with that.
But … chicken ark?
If you search herein for chicken you’ll come up with zero hits (apart from this one) in the posts. Unleashing Google with site:softsolder.com chicken digs up some comments, none of which discuss arks. I have absolutely no idea where Widestat came up with that, which makes me distrust their conclusions even more.
#1 by madbodger on 4-September-2012 - 09:22
I tried my vanity website, vitriol.com and it said it didn’t exist. So I tried my old livejournal madbodger.livejournal.com, and it told me I get over 2 million daily visits, with an Alexa rank of #118, with an estimated value of over $16M. Yeah, right.
#2 by Ed on 4-September-2012 - 13:52
Huh. Looks like they have a bit of trouble with blog subdomains. It’s either that or you’re one heck of a writer!
#3 by smellsofbikes on 8-September-2012 - 18:03
I’m responsible for some portion of those 2 million hits per day — although, it’s like 0.00000001% of that number.
#4 by RobT. on 4-September-2012 - 11:46
hmmm
Chicken Ark is similar to some things my wife was researching, a “chicken tractor” which is a small, portable coop on wheels so the chickens can be moved around and eat, explore and “fertilize” other areas in near total portable safety :-) But I never thought it was related here!? WE’RE BEING CO-HACKED, ED!!!
TURN OFF THE SERVERS!!!!! DIVE! dIVE! DIVVVVEEE!!!!
(sorry for caps LOL)
Rob
PS: another thought was that a chicken ark was a small swift boat that was primarily used to escape from vitriolic pirates who were trying to capture them for a big deep-fry party ;)
#5 by Ed on 4-September-2012 - 13:59
We knew of those and, were we to have chickens, they’d be chugging around the garden in a chicken tractor … but we don’t and they aren’t.
The back of our property adjoins the Mighty Wappingers Creek, so perhaps we’re supposed to set up a floating chicken coop? They could fertilize the creek!
But, alas, now that I do the obvious search, it seems a chicken ark is just the British version of a chicken tractor. [sigh]
#6 by Frans on 5-September-2012 - 17:28
Funny, my blog is given a Dollar value twice that of yours (806 vs. 324) even though you clearly post much more regularly and (probably) have more readers. The keywords “clone window” actually make sense too.
#7 by Ed on 5-September-2012 - 19:00
Your header picture must be at least that much prettier than mine… [grin]
#8 by frenzie on 6-September-2012 - 04:01
Such a clever algorithm. ;)