Odd Traffic Patterns: On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog, Part 2

Posted by Mike Richard on July 26, 2007
Filed under: Blogging

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As a follow-up to last month’s On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog, I decided to round up the top 5 search phrases folks are using to find my site over the past week. Things just keep getting stranger:

  1. “things to try before you die”: Fair enough, but Google’s just barely missing the mark on this one. The post to which they’re directing searchers is really about things not to try before you die.
  2. “nordic porn”: The respective post was really about maps, but I suppose this is further proof that search engines have a ways to go in the linguistics department.
  3. “bad reasons to own a private plane”: Your guess is as good as mine. I like private piloting but I wouldn’t say it’s something about which I’m knowledgeable or blog regularly about.
  4. “tightest jeans in the world”: Evidently blogging about this photo makes me somewhat of an “expert”. Google ranks me as #2!
  5. “insect killer geek”: The traffic from this one and similar derivations remains steady. Not a clue why …

So what are your readers searching for to find 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

Brooke
July 26th, 2007 - 1:04 pm

Gotta love that! We get a lot of traffic for Brian Bumper… guess he’s some porn star in Europe? (we wrote about our car accident and how we lost Brian’s bumper, haha).


Mike
July 26th, 2007 - 2:20 pm

European porn star, eh? I see you guys getting some serious mileage out of that on your trip.

“I’m Brian Bumper. Perhaps you’ve heard of me? I’m … kind of a big deal.”


Chris
August 1st, 2007 - 11:18 am

I perfectly can relate to that. There was a time when a lot of people coming to my site were googling for ‘Sex Tour Bali’ or ‘Let’s have sex’, strangely enough as I wrote only once an article comparing the sex industry in Thailand and Bali in more than 100 posts. But I guess it helped. Sex always sells. No? ;-)
Cheers from Bali,

Chris

Life is what you make it!
http://www.nomad4ever.com


Mike
August 2nd, 2007 - 9:58 am

Sex always sells. No?

So true, so true. I do get quite a few lookers coming from Google/Yahoo searching for sex-related terms. Do I really write about it that much? Perhaps I’m in denial …