What Are You Looking For?
I couldn't think of anything to blog about today that wasn't potentially embarrassing to myself or to my children, (when they later grow up and are horrified by what I've written) so I thought I'd embarrass some people who I don't know, but who probably won't ever be back to my blog and will therefore not be embarrassed, anyway.
Some of the traffic I get to my blog is from family and friends. Some is from some other bloggers I follow and who follow me. Then a big ol' chunk of it is from people Googling for stuff. Weird stuff. I get people looking for "Sportacus" quite a bit (why did I have to write about him?) which is understandable, I guess. Then I get people looking for "milkweed" and so, well, they're bound to end up here at some point. Once in a while I see my own name googled, which is a little disturbing as I wonder who from my past is looking me up and not bothering to leave a comment. And there's the uncommon stuff. Stuff that people want to find and my blog is randomly selected because of a few key words that they have strung together. Sometimes they're really funny and I should begin keeping track of them, just for chuckles. Here are a few examples from this past week:
"tuner transformation Kristen" (???)
"method of breaking in a car going up hill and down hill"
"milkweed beatles" (note the spelling. Not sure if that was intentional or not.)
"toddler eye sores" (either very ugly little children or infections. Not sure.)
"drooling cow photo"(no, but I do have some drooling cat photos somewhere.)
"skating costumes hideous" (well that shouldn't be hard to find.)
"giraffe with poop" (a mom's blog is bound to have lots of poop, but sorry, no giraffes. Oh, and by the way...EEWWW!!)
If you get a chance, please share some of your favorite random keyword activity with me. I know there's a story there, somewhere.
Some of the traffic I get to my blog is from family and friends. Some is from some other bloggers I follow and who follow me. Then a big ol' chunk of it is from people Googling for stuff. Weird stuff. I get people looking for "Sportacus" quite a bit (why did I have to write about him?) which is understandable, I guess. Then I get people looking for "milkweed" and so, well, they're bound to end up here at some point. Once in a while I see my own name googled, which is a little disturbing as I wonder who from my past is looking me up and not bothering to leave a comment. And there's the uncommon stuff. Stuff that people want to find and my blog is randomly selected because of a few key words that they have strung together. Sometimes they're really funny and I should begin keeping track of them, just for chuckles. Here are a few examples from this past week:
"tuner transformation Kristen" (???)
"method of breaking in a car going up hill and down hill"
"milkweed beatles" (note the spelling. Not sure if that was intentional or not.)
"toddler eye sores" (either very ugly little children or infections. Not sure.)
"drooling cow photo"(no, but I do have some drooling cat photos somewhere.)
"skating costumes hideous" (well that shouldn't be hard to find.)
"giraffe with poop" (a mom's blog is bound to have lots of poop, but sorry, no giraffes. Oh, and by the way...EEWWW!!)
If you get a chance, please share some of your favorite random keyword activity with me. I know there's a story there, somewhere.
posted by Kristen @ 1:29 PM
5 Comments:
At 4:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
These are always fun. I had one about condoms stuck in uterus - and a few others that were better. I'll look through and give you a few more. Mamamama (check my blogroll) had elephant scrotum once...
At 5:45 AM,
Anonymous said…
I used to get the same thing, especially when my weblog had monthly archives of text entries. Then the searches might hit one word from one post and another word in an unrelated post. When I made my monthly archives simply calendars, it dropped a lot of those perverse searches.
In the end, I just decided to "drop out" of the search engine indexing and removed my archives from being indexed. Ernesto knows how. Now my search term reports are typically more sane.
At 10:29 AM,
Anonymous said…
Hey Kristen! I know what you mean. I've gotten strange hits and my reports sometimes have weird phrases as the search term. I made one little comment in a blog once, about not cutting my hair, and I got a hit from "cutting all my hair off..." What I wonder about is why someone would read my full, obviously unrelated blog after using that search term.
I've never gotten exact name searches but hits through direct searches for my handle, Beezil the 1st from places like Utah or some far off place like that, which I wonder a LOT about because no one in those places would really KNOW that handle, or me, you know? Definitely strange.
I usually hit your blog after Ernie's (old college buddies!), and I do a Google search for his name each time because I'm too lazy to just link it directly. I always do things the hard way, I guess. :-)
At 9:35 AM,
Anonymous said…
I just wrote about this over at b'eaw (hyperlink to Come happy sluts attached)! I completely agree -- I think there's a book in this.
So far, I think weep weep nude girls is my very favorite search...
At 10:18 AM,
Kristen said…
Jenn- your post easily puts mine to shame...I kept reading, thinking "these can't get any weirder" and by golly, they sure did!
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