Brad Pitt is My Pawn

I would like to take a moment and give you a quick stat update on this blog.
So far, this blog site has been visited a total of 3500 times.
And the top four countries that follow this blog are as follows:
1.USA
2. United Kingdom
3. Sweden
4. Australia

It might sound funny, but I check the blog stats frequently to see if people are actually reading this or if I am just contributing to the senseless internet blabber that plagues the world wide web....or a if it is a small combination of the two.

Anyway, I checked the 'audience' stat that tells me the top reading countries- I was surprised to see Australia made it to the top four- especially since I don't know a single soul in Australia right now. Cool, right?

After looking at my 'audience' stats, I took a gander at how people are finding this blog. Turns out that most people reading are friends from Facebook as my blog stats listed facebook.com as the biggest source, and then it looks like people are Google searching my name (or variations of the blog title) to find me...like "Vivian Byrd Paintings" or "Hello Vivian Blog"... you get the idea.

I was just starting to feel pretty neat thinking that there's people out there asking the all-powerful Google.com how to find my blog. People were looking for ME- wow! How neat. I even have readers in the UK and Australia! Look at that!

It was just about then that I discovered sometheing else....
Along with the typical Google searches that involved my name and some sort of reference to this blog, one of the highest searches that brought people to this blog site was a Google search for "Pictures of Crocodile Dundee".

It turns out I don't have a large population of fans in Australia at all. The truth is that the majority of them happen to accidentally arrive at my blog because I put a picture of Crocodile Dundee on my blog a month or two ago- and Google knows about it. I don't have devoted readers in that continent- just a bunch of people who have randomly bungled into my blog.

I thought about getting upset about this... and then I realized I could use this Google search to my advantage. In order to get more viewers, I think I will just start posting pictures of very famous people on my blog- like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...or...Obama....or Octomom.

Ha! That's it! My secret to increasing my viewing audience- the old 'bait and switch' strategy.

"Ohhh... you wanna see pictures of Charlie Sheen? Guess what!??? You found Vivian's Artistic Adventures instead!" Muhuhaha.

On that note, I'm going to bid you all goodday and if you've happened across my blog on accident because you're just trying to find a decent picture of Crocodile Dundee or Brad Pitt, I'm sorry....kind of.