Weekend Thought…Google Robots on Crack
September 3rd, 2006 @ 10:02 am
Today, I popped into my site stats to see what’s been happening lately. In December 2005, when FlowerDust.net was officially published, the site had about 130 daily visitors. Last month, the site averaged 437 daily drop-bys and almost 24,000 pageviews. So, if you’re new here, thanks for coming by!
According to my WordPress dashboard, there are almost 2000 comments. Maybe the 2000th commenter will get a special prize? From Scotland? I think that sounds fair. So, here is the one rule to win the 2000th commenter prize: No duplicate commenters. Post yours and be done. We’ll see where lady luck falls. And I promise the prize won’t be haggis!
Another random thing I was looking at was “referring keyphrases” - or what people type into search engines like Google and Yahoo, and for some reason or another, they ended up on FlowerDust.net. I decided to pull out the ten most random things people typed in and landed here. Most of these make no sense whatsoever, but that’s what happens when robots are running the internet.
1. telling the wife i wear pantyhose
2. big misquitos of Kansas
3. warning signs of a lying deceitful internet lover
4. poetry about cardboard
5. sexy 50-something year old women
6. how to roast chestnuts - martha stewart
7. how do i blow out my gallbladder
8. i look like ricki lake
9. SMU girls too skinny
10. blogging poems for grandmas
Have you ever checked out your stats to see how people have found your site?
Scotland · Weekend Thought...
James Petticrew said,
September 3, 2006 at 10:28 am
Ann will not be able to bring you back Haggis, as she will have eaten it all! and I didn’t realise a celebrity was coming to stay
Crystal Renaud said,
September 3, 2006 at 11:19 am
another stolen post idea. wow… :)
Mairi petticrew said,
September 3, 2006 at 11:22 am
Well..id be quite happy with haggis as a prize! Yum! :-)
Mairi petticrew said,
September 3, 2006 at 11:33 am
i cant wait untill you come!
About no. 7….. sounds kind of painfull dont you think? lol :-)
Carole Turner said,
September 3, 2006 at 7:28 pm
My favorite referring google search is for “Grilz” and “Fungus Ball”, yes, both lead to my blog:-)
Kristiapplesauce said,
September 3, 2006 at 9:01 pm
All I know is that Ricki Lakes mom used to go to my church in Vegas. No really, her mom’s name is Jill. Do you think I am fabulous? I think that you do. Admit it. I also think that you need to change my name on your blogroll. Nobody knows me by that name. Woo Hoo. I think that Woo Hoo is the word of the day. Or words if you want to be picky. WooHoo if that is how you want to play. WOO HOO! WOOHOO.
John Smulo said,
September 3, 2006 at 9:11 pm
I’ve had more than a few people find their way to my blog searching for ’sex’ or ‘porn’ because of the blog post I did about your Relevant Dirty Girls article.
Sex sells. It apparently also increases blog traffic.
anne jackson said,
September 3, 2006 at 10:01 pm
I had a lot of porn-ish referrers too, but didn’t really want to post those queries!!!
shari brown said,
September 4, 2006 at 2:03 pm
I have not run a site meter since moving to wordpress b/c I didn’t want my blog to be about writing to draw readers, but for my own pleasure. I get to write to (attempt to) draw readers at work, so I am just keeping this fun. No blog stats for me, but it would be kind of fun to know what was bringing readers around. With my nature, though, I am afraid I couldn’t leave it at that. See I really just posted today because I wanted to be 2000th. Did I get it? DO I get a prize? Just Kiddin’
shari
Jules said,
September 4, 2006 at 10:13 pm
I confess. It was me. I needed to know how to roast chestnuts , so……………. I got you!
#6 too funny.
Rusty said,
September 4, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Yeah. It surprises me too to find out how quickly google will find new posts that I put up as well.
How “Granny panties, floral design” makes it to my site is still a mystery though too.
Nina C. said,
September 5, 2006 at 12:54 am
Extreme girl jeep.
My keyphrases were not as crazy (maybe I should write about crazier things like dangerous ways to treat your gallbladder) but that one was off target. I am neither extreme nor do I own a jeep.
Bring someone back bagpipes!
Derek said,
September 5, 2006 at 2:38 am
-skin on butt thighs burn hurt bone pain
-music colonel clink
-extremely hairy armpits
-Vanilla Ice eyebrow Picture
funny.
James Petticrew said,
September 5, 2006 at 7:25 am
Pictures of Ann and Chris arriving in Scotland at
http://www.xanga.com/jamespetticrew
brian said,
September 5, 2006 at 10:07 am
“yeah on the left side, cuz that’s the crip side”
Kevin Leggett said,
September 5, 2006 at 12:38 pm
hmmm…now I am going to have to go find out how to check my stats on Blogger. At any rate, very cool.
Deana said,
September 5, 2006 at 1:05 pm
So many people come to my site by way of searching for childhood seizures. I’ve met several people in the same boat as us…it’s pretty cool.
There was one once though that was I HATE DEANA…and my page came up…yikes!
Diane said,
September 5, 2006 at 2:14 pm
I found lots of traffic comes from the search for “Diane Downs”. And later I found she’s a killer who killed her kids.
Yikes.
John Smulo said,
September 6, 2006 at 6:20 pm
Today I had someone that found their way to my blog from a google search on “songs relating to prison”. It actually had something to do with a recent post I did on a System of a Down song, but some of the things people search for make me smile.