Ask … Believe … Receive …
I have owned my own name as a domain for years now, but originally kept some poker content on it. I recently changed the direction my life is heading, and this of course changed the direction the content of this blog was heading.
I have never really tracked how much traffic I would get to this blog. I had no real reason to, in fact I still don’t but for interests sake I went ahead and installed the Google Analytics code. Okay, I’m lying. I do have a reason, vanity. If you have ever owned a website then you know you want the world to take notice when you scream “look at me ma!”
Well, it has been 24 hours and the code is working and I had 6 whole visitors yesterday. A couple were referrals through email, which is hopefully a good sign, and a few searched through Google. One, I swear to God was a a search string that included these words in it… “donkey with woman in tijuauna.” Yes the misspelling of Tijuana is “correct.” It seems some poor individual was attempting to find some kind of stage show in the crazy border town, when he came across my site.
When you do a search using that misspelling, you’ll see CaryDarling.Com come up first in Google due to an article I wrote awhile back poking fun at Phil Hellmuth, this is the excerpt they show in the search results.
I felt like a gringo walking down Revolution Blvd in Tijuauna. Oh and there are rumors that Hellmuth will be performing a live donkey show. …
Yes I have completely gotten off track to the point I was trying to make. I got 6 visitors, and I want more. I am asking and I am believing that my blog will have an impact on someone today, and they will share the URL with a few friends, and just like the shampoo commercial, they will tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on. So now I am receiving traffic. 
