I managed to skip doing a traffic report last month amidst all the excitement. August and September were both pretty busy around here, with 56,000 hits in August and over 79,000 in September, which is a new alltime high around here. The traffic increase seems to have coincided with the hurricanes. I guess a lot of people were looking everywhere they could for information about Katrina and Rita.

Unfortunately, these past few months have also seen a spike in spam referrals. It's getting so bad that a lot of bloggers are complaining about it. My webhost blogged about it recently, and Dwight wrote about a huge growth in spamblogs, which seems to be the driver of this annoying trend. He's got more info here; all I can say is that I hope the folks at Google are smart enough to keep up with these guys.

Anyway, the usual list of referrers and search terms is below the fold. Sadly, the referrers lists are shorter than usual due to all the crap sites crowding the real ones out. Sorry about that. Thanks as always for visiting!

August

Aggregators, collections, indices, etc

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308:  http://www.bloglines.com

130:  http://blo.gs/


Weblog referrers

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1790:  Daily Kos


601:   In the Pink Texas


349:   TAPPED


337:   The Burnt Orange Report


283:   Greg's Opinion


159:   Atrios


146:   Pink Dome


139:   Dos Centavos


130:   A Perfectly Cromulent Blog


Top search terms

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#reqs	search term

1429	real men of genius

191	budweiser real men of genius

173	eric scheffey

172	diane zamora

158	american idol tryouts

139	off the kuff

120	ron mock

117	thong contest

116	women of enron

101	schlitterbahn galveston

98	walton and johnson

93	beer bong

89	largest rat

87	if you love something set it free

79	astrodome

74	schlitterbahn

72	american idol try outs

72	kiol

71	real men of genius lyrics

September

Aggregators, collections, indices, etc

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365:  http://www.bloglines.com


Weblog referrers

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1926:  Daily Kos


411:   TAPPED


371:   In the Pink Texas


335:   The Burnt Orange Report


341:   This Blog Is Full Of Crap


Top search terms

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#reqs	search term

2592	real men of genius

801	deamonte love

763	national talk like a pirate day

470	diane zamora

332	eric scheffey

288	roy blunt

252	talk like a pirate day

235	budweiser real men of genius

202	ron mock

196	abigail perlman

164	women of enron

163	ray nagin

144	kiol

138	off the kuff

137	david safavian

135	walton and johnson

121	jerry lewis telethon

117	real men of genius mp3

112	galveston evacuation

111	97.5 houston