On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog

Posted by Mike Richard on June 26, 2007
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I like to check my Google Analytics stats from time to time to see how folks are finding my blog. A few of the stranger keywords that some of my readers have Google’d in June:

  • “ladyboy thailand”: This is a big one and there’s quite a few variations on this theme, including “partnership with ladyboy” and “ladyboy love”. Apparently my recent post Why I’ll Never Be A Thai Ladyboy has made me somewhat of an expert according to Google.
  • “kill your cellphone”: The fact that someone actually typed that into Google is a bit unnerving.
  • “insect geek in japan”: I have no idea what they were looking for, but I hope they found it.
  • “geisha strip club quebec”: Why anyone would be Googling a strip club in the middle of Quebec that is surrounded by 100 miles of corn farms in all directions is beyond me. Perhaps the happy hour they started recently is really turning the place around and kicking business into high gear. Good on ‘em!
  • “lifelong travellers”: Googling this phrase reveals my About page as the #2 result. Considering that the big “G” is essentially a giant supercomputer devouring every morsel of info in the web sphere and trying to decipher it into a meaningful database, it warms my heart to see that the search giant thinks of my blog (and thus me) as a lifelong traveler.

To all my blogging brethren, what are some of the stranger keywords people have searched on to stumble across your blog?

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

nina
June 26th, 2007 - 12:24 pm

“walking naked in Germany” (or its variation) is my bestseller. I don’t even want to know why.


Mike
June 26th, 2007 - 5:45 pm

What the …? That’s odd. I think it’d make a nice monthly meme for our fellow bloggers to post their readers’ strangest keyword searches.


nina
June 26th, 2007 - 6:20 pm

Well, I *do* have a post about this American who was caught walking around naked in Germany, so no surprise there. But people actually searching for these stuff? *cringe*

A friend’s site turns up in a google search for “sexy enemas clip” Hehehe.


zooomabooma
June 27th, 2007 - 2:06 pm

“kill your cellphone” shouldn’t be unnerving. most people should kill their cell phones. they’re part of what’s horrible about society. good for climbers when they might have reception, in case of emergency only. good for medical personnel. good for people to talk while they’re in the grocery store? no. good for idiots who wanna wave to the live TV camera while they call everyone they know to say, “Hey, can ya see me, I’m on TV!?” Good for people to talk on while driving? yes, if they wanna increase their level of risk of dying or killing someone else.

kill your cell phone?

people should.


Mike
June 27th, 2007 - 3:05 pm

A friend’s site turns up in a google search for “sexy enemas clip” Hehehe.

- Nina

Oh that’s just wrong. I’m not even going to ask what kinds of friends you’re associated with. =P


Mike
June 27th, 2007 - 3:06 pm

That’s one thing I can’t wait for - not carrying a cell phone while I’m traveling. Oh, the freedom!

I totally agree, zooomabooma. But I’ve never thought to take it to the extreme of actually Googling ways to do same! Lol …


Dan
June 27th, 2007 - 8:04 pm

“30.0000000099.09999847″ who searches for numbers like that?

“grand canyon overweight travelers” not so bad but if the read the related article they may not have been impressed with the generalisations I made about people who visit the GC Skywalk.


Mike
June 28th, 2007 - 12:19 pm

Dan: how does a number have two decimals in it? Is that some sort of advanced calculus of which I’m unaware? Lol …


shani
April 8th, 2008 - 12:46 pm

i was directed here through a series of links starting at mainichi daily on an article about the new ban on hostess scouts ^_^;