My monthly effort to stay on top of Jeff Porten on the Google rankings. ;-)

The Categories

Category	June Count	May Count
Technology	151	140
Billy Joel	76	163
Celebrity Look Alikes	70	80
DSL	22	20
Overrated Films	19	21
Al Gore	8	18
Steven Wright	6	17

Consistent with my Billy Joel-induced dropoff (and despite my persistent lack of ISBS Tech Guide entries), you can see that Technology related searches eclipsed Billy Joel as the most popular reason people come here to visit. Billy Joel related queries, while still holding on to second place, dropped by more than 50%. The other big winners, Celebrity Look Alikes, DSL and Overrated Films all held an almost remarkable consistency. And, as mentioned below, the more topical discussions (Gore & Wright) dropped off precipitously as well.


The Referring Sites

A quick shout out to jeffporten.com for sending 28 visitors my way last month, the largest of the non-search sites. Also of note were jasonbennion.com with five, and scalzi.com with four (two more than last month).

Other interesting entries included linkedin.com, which I use, but have never seen generate any traffic/benefit for me until now and, a site called mp3raid.com, which seems to scour the web and link to mp3 files from other websites (which I'm not linking back to on the off-chance that they shouldn't be doing that), and the ever popular fatman-radio-search-engine-swicki.eurekster.com.


The Keywords

All told, 684 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in June (around the same number as were used in May). Here are some that I found the most interesting:

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
celebrity bed look alike	1 / 1,040,000	Want a bed that looks just like the one your favorite celebrity sleeps in? Come on down to I Should Be Sleeping! Best prices this side of Hollywood!
olympic"" ""seizure"" ""2007"" ""mpeg""	1 / 45,600	What exactly is an olympic seizure? Do judges give scores at the end?
what's wrong with moveon.org	6 / 294,000	Oh man...they only give me 2GB of space on my web server...
put the ethernet cable in the computer, but the light did not come on	8 / 471,000	Try the light switch, my friend...
short term effects of the jfk assassination	10 / 625,000	Short term? I know Google didn't exist in 1963, but this query's a little late, no?
mlb standings google gadget	10 / 129,000	Not on my blog, but hey - that's a great idea! (be right back...)
wesley autrey on let's make a deal game	10 / 22,900	That'd be Deal or No Deal, folks...
what kind of figure do you have quiz	22 / 1,890,000	Who, exactly, goes in search of an internet quiz to find out this information? For future reference, I suggest www.lookinthemirror.com
innocent high	104 / 5,640,000	And here I thought they went looking for a drug reference. But #1 on the search results is something entirely different (NSFW)
macintosh consultants	129 / 1,290,000	The second month in a row this happened. (Since I know Jeff is curious - his site came up #441. Some things are just not fair...)
fun facts about sleeping	201 / 2,200,000	Man, someone needs to get out more...
guys videoing girls sleeping	>500 / 3,730,000	You attract all kinds, I guess. Sorry to disappoint ya, fellas...
pictures of cartoons sleeping in bed	>500 / 2,070,000	Not much to add - this just struck me as funny...
i recently upgraded to ie 7. i miss my old command bar; file,view,etc. how can i get my old command bar back?	>500 / 271,000	Ladies and gentlemen, this month's winner of the 'I talk to Google like it's a person' contest...
glenn beck blows a blood vessel	>500 / 72,500	Hmm...someone have anger issues???
recharging pacemakers	>500 / 44,900	Can you picture the one guy passed out on the ground, and the other guy sitting next to him, frantically Googling 'recharging pacemakers?' This kind of thing makes me wish I could draw cartoons...
pronouncing a in rhode island accent	>500 / 36,600	Note that last month, someone hit my site looking for ways to pronounce "water" in Philadelphia. Obviously, this guy is migrating north...
gesundtheit	0 / 692	Thank you.
wedding taking place at clemson university jay leno	0 / 464	That's how rumors get started...
microsoft sufrace	0 / 93	That's me, best friend of the folks who can't spell!

And, just for good measure, a couple of interesting pairs of queries:

Query	Rank / # of Results	Comments
things you can do in 3 hours and what can you do in 6 hours	>500 / 148,000,000 and >500 / 184,000,000	I love a good Google competition. Next month, 9 hours!
what is a good question for bill clinton and who did bill clinton sleep with	1 / 2,820,000 and 7 / 1,830,000	Seems the second query answered the first, no? And oh, by the way, check out those search rankings! Imagine if I actually wrote about Clinton's sex life?