Does eHarmony, Inc. read eHarmony Blog?
Hmm. Unfortunately I can’t say they do.
eHarmony Blog served approximately 47,000 webpages in December and 43,000 webpages in November. This includes all RSS reader views, Google Cache views, and excludes all bots and comment/trackback spammers. However, in these two months, I served only 37 pages to eHarmony’s corporate offices (i.e., the IP addresses owned by eHarmony). No one in eH offices seems to be visiting me. The 37 already includes the times they used the “cached copy” link in Google’s search results.
- I seed my feed with tracking pixels. The only pageviews I can’t count is when they use a proxy like Google Web Accelerator, IRCache or Coral Cache.
- At exactly one point in the past, someone in eHarmony, Inc. voted in one of our polls. Alas I have no “official” commentator or registrant yet.
I bring this information out because an anonymous poster claiming to be an eHarmony employee posted the following comment in the Crumpled Notebook blog.
Hi Melissa. Just so you know: Every time you post the word “eharmony” to a blog, it creates a Google alert that the word “eharmony” has appeared in “the news.” This alert is received by probably about 100 employees here at eharmony as a brief summary. So, the fact that less than a quarter of those mid and senior level managers at eHarmony click through to see what your comments are about is really not that suprising.
(eHarmony has 260 employees.)
I should say that, Melissa, you’re lucky — 21 views and an unofficial commentator… Wow. I’m having to resort to using outlandish headlines like this one to get eHarmony employees to visit me.
Update, 26 April 2008
On 1 March 2008, I began partly blocking anonymous proxies (to help ban spammers) and blocking Google Web Accelerator and CoralCache. There was no increase in the eHarmony visits I reported above. In fact, look at this Google Analytics screenshot:
Update, 18 February 2009
It seems they know about the site by now:
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