What's in a name?

So the story goes...

I started getting very random visits on the blog from all over the world... literally! India, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina. I don't know anyone in any of these places, unfortunately. So I made the blog private hoping to get off of any searches through the internet. So in discussing my frustration with a friend, it was brought to my attention (??) that I have a very common last name that is probably searched quite often on the internet. My question is, why oh WHY did it just start happening after having the blog for 2 years?!?!??!? Can you explain that to me please Blogger?? No, of course not, because you are a program with no physical support.

Anyways, so the new blog will not have the now cursed last name. Ok, I actually like my last name, and Jeff gets a kick out of this whole situation because he has always thought his last name should make him famous or something.

I don't like having my blog private. In my haste to go private I didn't even invite my mother to see my blog. And I don't have everyone's email address, so once it was private, some got left out. And I know, you could add more people and invite more but I wasn't even updating the blog, let alone inviting more people!

So, we're going to try this one more time. No more mention of the last name. I really hope this is the issue, otherwise this computer may end up out the window, and that would be very bad for business.