1K Visitors! (Again. Sort of.)

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Aug 202011
 
1K Visitors! (Again. Sort of.)

I just hit 1,000 unique visitors in a month! (Again. Sort of.) My Inner Data Analyst was so happy to see a lovely round number that she is getting her own blog post today. It’s been a while since she got to come out and play. Here’s what made her happy: Google Analytics showed 1,000 unique visitors in a month time span. Confession time: I checked in the middle of the day – it was serendipitous to hit the exact number when I did, but that wasn’t the final number in the day. The final number for that month-span was 1,010, but I was so happy to see the exact 1,000 that I screen-captured it. Now Data Girl gets to have her nerdy moments in [read more...]

Data Analyst To The Rescue!

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Apr 082011
 

Every once in a while, it comes in handy to have been a data analyst. Warning, if that last sentence seems boring to you, please stop reading now. This blog post is ridiculously geeky and has no place whatsoever on a phone sex blog. Last night, I had re-motivated myself to do the SEO (search engine optimization) stuff for my new blog location. The point is for more people to find my blog via search engines. I know others have had fantastic results with driving traffic, and I’m proud of the blog, and sometimes people become callers after reading it, so it’s worth it to me to SEO the blog. I was taking data which existed (blog title, categories, the first 160 letters of the post [read more...]

OKCupid and Why 300 Was Important

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Mar 152011
 

OKCupid:If you are looking for a romantic partner and you haven’t yet signed up with OKCupid, you’re missing out.  It’s a great dating site: free, interesting, and they use their data for good. I made a profile so that callers can ask me for advice on their profile from a woman’s perspective, not because I was in the market for new lovers, but I kept getting interested emails anyway. So tonight, I logged on to switch my location to Houston, and consider deactivating my profile, and by the time I’d updated my zip code and politely responded to the people who had previously messaged me, I had more messages waiting for me… which led to a fairly ferocious feedback loop of distraction. And then a [read more...]

Housekeeping for Feed Users

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Dec 182010
 

I wasn’t getting data from people who were subscribed via feeds, so I redid my feedburner settings. If you’re subscribed to me through a feed, just in case I mucked something up, please re-subscribe using this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/galianachance/QOvU Thanks! P.S. Yes, I know, if I mucked something up, they might not see this in their reader, but hopefully they’ll wonder why I haven’t posted and wander back to the site to check, and see this and fix it and it will all be lovely. P.P.S. If you don’t use an RSS feed / reader, but you rely on something like bookmarks to track your favorites, I think you’re totally missing out. I strongly recommend you try it: * Go to http://reader.google.com and log in with [read more...]

Reddit, A Week Later

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Dec 092010
 

So what happened because of my “Ask Me Anything” experiment on Reddit? (If you missed it, it was here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/efl7g/iama_phone_sex_operator_with_an_iq_of_142_ama/) I have picked up several new friends on my Galiana Facebook, all of whom are women (one of them went to a Comic-Con as Hit Girl, and I’m pretty sure I have a crush on her now). They are helping me decide my Facebook strategy – I think I’m going to shift and use it more as a blog interaction location, and not attempt to hide my profession. Especially since I have with more non-caller women than caller men on my friends list by about 2 to 1. I had 280 unique visitors that day to my blog (my average before had been 25-30ish). Ten [read more...]

Empathic Metamorph Front Page

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Nov 112010
 

I saw that someone found my blog from searching “empathic metamorph” on Google. Makes sense, since I have a blog post named “Empathic Metamorph Then and Now“. Just for fun, I searched “empathic metamorph” on Google, and holy schnikees! My blog post is number seven on that search! That makes me irrationally happy! (side note: Yes, “holy schnikees” is a Chris Farley reference. May he rest in peace, and may he and Patrick Swayze be dancing at the Chippendale’s in the great beyond when I join them someday.)

Data Girl Tries Again

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Oct 132010
 
Data Girl Tries Again

I’ve written about being a data girl and how annoying it is to find a lack of trends in my call and blog data. And yet, today I answered the question, “What have you been up to Galiana?” with the potentially boner-killing answer of, “Analyzing call data.” I’m thinking of moving my schedule back, less of noon-midnight (which regularly runs until 1 a.m.) and more of 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., to grab a bit more sleep without having to nap, since the dogs usually wake me up around 8 a.m. So I charted days of the week and time of day of the call. The dots at the bottom of the graph are midnight-3am. The hours go up to 23. I saw more patterns than [read more...]

Stats Follow-Up

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Sep 162010
 

I wrote here about being a Data Girl, and how frustrating it is to realize that I cannot reliably predict any aspect of this job with any kind of detail. In general, I can track averages, but (a) I can rough-guess those based on gut-level impressions and eyeballing raw numbers, and (b) that’s disappointingly boring. But my saving hope was the “Stats” tab on the blog. At least I could analyze web traffic and predict reader trends, right? Do my Twitter posts correlate with a rise in readership? Does my call volume increase when I have more readers? Do I get more traffic on weekends? Do more posts convert to more page views? Surely? Please? No. NO. Did you hear that, I said no. Grrrrrrrrrr. [read more...]