WHO?

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September 25, 2003

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Checking my HostingMatters site stats, which I haven’t done in awhile, I discover that I’ve gotten over 150 visitors via a site at http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org some time in September. I can’t even get the URL itself to pop up, as it autoredirects me to http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm03/index.php. Anyone out there have any clue what this is about?

4 responses to “WHO?”

joy

September 25, 2003 at 9:32 pm

hrm, someone is a little too busy to google I see…

Megnut posting about the mediathatmattersfest.org. It appears to be an online film festival.

Why you got linked, I have no idea since you didn’t reveal wether your blog or a specific post was linked. But looking at the google results, I could just take a wild guess it was something political. 😛
James Joyner

September 25, 2003 at 9:44 pm

Joy,

That much I got:) I was able to peruse the site a bit from the links on the redirect page. Just nothing that made it obvious why I’d have been linked.

I’m not sure if it was the blog or a specific post. The site stats don’t show that. I never noticed that URL in SiteMeter.
joy

September 26, 2003 at 10:43 am

Well if you were really interested, you could download your raw log files and do a search on the text string of mediamattersfest.org to see what they were linking to.

However, that is a pain in the you know where which is why I like monitoring my site stats with my realtime visitor count and sitemeter.
James Joyner

September 26, 2003 at 10:48 am

Yep. I use SiteMeter mainly for that purpose. I just somehow missed the surge from that site, which almost had to have been in a short period of time. I haven’t been monitoing them that closely of late, given other distractions.

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