Second Negative

The Year of the Dog

Way back at the end of 2004 I wrote a yearly wrap-up that I’d meant to repeat the following year, but things being what they are, I failed at that task. So, in the spirit of pushing real content to next week, here is an interesting/excruciating look back at Second Negative in 2006.

In no particular order…

• The visitors who did not find their way to this site by typing in the address were most often directed here after searching Google (and others) for: ‘sweet pickles books’ (and variations), ‘spaceballs the sequel’, ‘gay adoption negative’, ‘Galveston Island’, and ‘Second Negative’. A number of people searched for ‘Greg Hanover’, but those are probably people I know, so they don’t count. The Sweet Pickles entry that I wrote a couple of years ago remains the most visited and commented page on this site. The search engine traffic has created a mini Sweet Pickles message board. And for the record, I wrote in support of gay adoption back in 2004, so I’m guessing people searching for ‘gay adoption negative’ aren’t finding that entry very helpful.
• The majority of people who left this site by clicking an external link were going to the photo site. Most of the rest were going to a Noteworthy link. The political links are the most popular, which is odd because that isn’t typically the case with the political entries.
• I’ve written a lot about television/entertainment and have received a lot of referral traffic from TelevisionWithoutPity. Trench over at 7MilesDown sent the most people my way from a standard link (rather than from a comment I left somewhere). And Google directed the most visitors to all areas of the site. Google Image Search sent people here regularly for a picture of Skeletor that I used in this entry.
• The most visited posts of 2006 were Two Horns and a Tail, and A Word About Beer.
• I wouldn’t classify anything I’ve written as a ‘favorite’, but I do like what I wrote a few days after I asked Nicole to marry me. I’ve also enjoyed the feedback over the last year, and laughed for a long time at Stefan’s comment on kids from back in January. Hilarious. It’s also nice to hear from old timers like Jeff (lurker!) who pop back in every few months or so. One day I’ll write about Where the Red Fern Grows and how it can make a grown man cry, and Jeff will know what I mean.
• The browser of choice for visitors to this website is still all versions of IE at a rate of 51%. That is dissapointing, but Firefox comes in second at 38%.  Safari (Mac) clocks in at 5%, and a long list of others come in under 1%.
• The resolution used by 46% of Second Negative visitors was 1024×768.  Some 9% of visitors are still using 800×600 and 17% are using 1280×1024.  I’m using 1920×1200, but only 1% of visitors do the same.

And that’s it. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to help to make this site everything it was in 2006. And thanks to spell check, IBC Root Beer, and The Hanover Band for helping me to put out a third straight year of total nonsense. See you on the other side.