How Did They Find Me?

I recently put a feature on my blog that allows me to see where people are visiting me from.  It's really amazing to see how people end up on my blog from all over the world, especially considering this blog is still in its infancy.  I'm amazed every day that I get as many visitors as I do.    One of the things I particularly like about this feature is that if someone found me by doing a Google search, it will tell me what they searched for.  Who'd have thought my rant about the Soap Magic Dispenser commercial would be my most popular blog post?  I get several hits on that thing a day. Apparently that thing is super popular.  I had to laugh when I saw one of the search requests that led to my site was "remove animal smell from treadmill".  Yikes!  Makes me wonder what happened there.   And lately with all these snowstorms sweeping the nation, there have a lot of searches for giant snowmen (9 foot tall snowman, 125 foot snowman, 30 foot snowman...)  I even had one written in Russian that led them to my post about the Magic Scissors.  Awesome! 

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It's Back!

Okay, my counter is back again.  However it seems to have started over from scratch.  It says I've only had 35 visitors.  :(  Weird...

Dude, Where's My Counter?

My visitor counter has been kidnapped!  I noticed the other day that it wasn't showing at the bottom of my blog, and thought at first that it was just not loading properly or something.  But now it's been a few days and it still isn't showing.  The HTML is still sitting pretty on my layout page, but there's no sign of it anywhere else.  I'm pretty bummed.  Does this mean I have to install a new one and start over with my count?  I was so excited to have finally had over 2,000 visitors.  That probably sounds like peanuts to most of you, but I've only been blogging since November and I had assumed it would be a year or so before I had that many visitors.  I don't even care if those visitors were repeats.  It still counts! 

So has this happened to anyone else before?  Any ideas on how to get my counter back?  I miss it.  :(