Here are a few items of note about traffic to Scratchbomb.com in the last month. Absolutely none of this is made up or exaggerated in any way. I’m presenting it because I constantly get SEO-related spam, and I’m hoping this will prove once and for all that this site has zero interest in improving the size and quality of its audience.

• Despite a late surge from my Extreme Couponing post, the Scratchbomb piece with the most page hits is once again my recap of game 6 of the 1999 NLCS. This is bad in the sense that nothing I wrote recently tops something I penned almost two years ago, but good in the sense that I am hard at work at something closely related to that post (/vague)
• Top five countries visiting Scratchbomb: USA, Canada, UK, Philippines, India. That last one I kind of understand–considering there’s a billion people in India, from a purely statistically standpoint, any site should get a significant number of visitors from there. The Philippines has me stumped, but I’ll take it, and will also learn how to speak Tagalog.
• On the low end of the scale: Two visits from Vietnam, and one each from Tanzania and Nigeria. Still looking for those first elusive page hits from China and North Korea.
• Number one search term inexplicably remains “rip taylor,” with most of those hits generated by this almost-two-year old post (number three on the page hits charts). Your guess is as good as mine, folks.
• Number two search term is now “studio 60 on roosevelt avenue,” which means I will NEVER stop writing these things.
• Rounding out the top five search terms: “rapture”, “scratchbomb”, and “jeff kent.”
• “steve phillips” has plunged all the way to #9, below “jersey city crank crew” and “jim dolan”.
• Best search terms of the month (sic all spelling mistakes):
  • “does anyone know the song with the tune coco coco”
  • “extrene couponers eat shit”
  • “gary carter racist”
  • “how to write story about vanilla ice whose song ice ice baby into cape town in gravedigger theory”
  • “jamie farr shirtless”
  • “what else looks like a swastika”
• Worst search term of the month: “chipper jones y’all”
• Number 10 traffic source leading to Scratchbomb: google.ca. Thanks, Canada!
• Number seven search engine directing traffic to Scratchbomb: Yandex, the top search engine in Russia. Cπacибo, Poccия!
• The fifth most popular browser used to view Scratchbomb is something called Mozilla Compatible Agent, which I’m pretty sure is a SkyNet product. Thanks, Terminators!