I was reading a post on Shoemoney last night, that peaked my interest. Well, it wasn’t really the entire post, but merely a sentence or two. Shoe was talking about negative publicity and why you should embrace it. Near the end of the post, he says:

The long term effect – Long after the buzz from the post has gone away visitors will still return to your site. Odds are they wont even remember how they got there.

This is so true. After reading that sentence, I stopped to think…how did I find shoemoney’s blog? I really couldn’t remember. So then I’m thinking back, how did I find other websites and blogs? Did I just stumble across them in Google? Find them on a forum or through someone else’s blogroll? How did I find out about Digitalpoint? I have nearly 1,000 posts on that site and I can’t remember how I even found out about it. How did I find out about John Chow’s blog? No idea!

It’s so funny that we can be such big fans of websites and visit them every single day, yet have no recollection of how first visited the site. Some people may remember how they found out about sites if a friend referred them to it, but really that’s about it. If you go back to sites you’ve been visiting for a couple of years, odds are you won’t remember how you got there in the first place.

Do you remember how you first stumbled across this blog? Did you come from another site, or find it in Google?