JSH: Surprising statistics

One thing I once believed was that I just needed to be able to
convince one person I was right, and that could start things as that
person could help and maybe then we could convince more people and
it'd go on from there.

Over five years since I found a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, with
my prime counting function old news, and with an invention of my own
factoring method behind me, I understand now that the problem is much
more difficult, so I'm working at puzzling through some of the more
recent bizarre things, like web stats.

For instance, do a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof" and I should be in the top 20 search results.

I've long looked at search engine results to attempt to measure
influence, and they have long been bizarre, like at times my research
would take over some search string that I thought meant that maybe I
was getting somewhere, but years keep passing and other measures
indicate no influence AT ALL.

Recently I got "quantified" so I can put up a link so that others can
see what I mean:

http://www.quantcast.com/p-89GNpWgpweHjg

Hopefully that will work.

My world wide reach for my blogs is 788 pageviews per month globally
with most of my readers outside of the US, and the unique visitor
count comes out to about 8 people per day for my three blogs.

Eight people per day, and I'm probably one of them.  Very
underwhelming.

Quite simply, the data indicates that I am mostly ignored, and have no
significant web presence at all.

But do a web search on any number of search strings related to what is
on my blogs, from math to music to current event, and they come up
highly.  My no-math, commentary blog took over the number one spot
under its name on both Yahoo! and Google months ago, but statistics
say it gets visited by maybe 2 people per day, and yes, I am one of
them!

That data is consistent with Google Analytics which says almost
exactly the same thing, and I went to Quantcast to get a second
opinion, as I puzzle this situation out.

Quite simply, I have two contradictory data streams.

One tells me that no one is interested in what I have to say.

The other says I'm one of the most dominant players on the web in the
world across multiple subject lines from economics to politics, to
yes, a plot idea for a Superman movie, which is my favorite example.

Contradictions do not really exist.  They are mirages.

There is always an underlying logical answer.

So what is it?


James Harris