I mon­i­tor Google Alerts as part of my job. It’s a great tool — and the price is right (free!).

Due to evil spam­mers, I have been get­ting a lot of use­less links — like the one I’ve high­lighted in the bot­tom snap­shot. That linked to a spammy link-bait site. All they got from me was a click — and in this case, not even that!

Top snap­shot? I use Lijit to track stats for my blog (one of about three tools). But those four digit results always come up on the list of searches that brought peo­ple to my blog. Totally use­less. I typed “2017” into the Lijit search field on my blog — and it brought up one of my posts. (Because of a Word­Press glitch, I cur­rently can­not name posts by any­thing relat­ing to their name.)

Since I took that screen snap­shot, I con­tacted Lijit. Their sug­ges­tion may work. (Time will tell.) But 404 errors resulted from each fil­ter entry.

And “cute lit­tle boys in church”? That’s creepy! Noth­ing like that has ever been on my blog. (As soon as I hit “pub­lish” it will, though.)

I guess my frus­tra­tion is that in the days of tools being totally ana­logue (ham­mer, nails, etc.) — results were eas­ier to obtain. How­ever, thumbs may have been more bruised than they are today!