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How People Found Me – August Edition
By Brian | September 1, 2007 | Share on Facebook
The Categories
| Category | August Count | July Count |
| Technology | 128 | 184 |
| Billy Joel | 60 | |
| Celebrity Look Alikes | 38 | 50 |
| DSL | 30 | 30 |
| ISBS Song/Lyrics | 28 | 14 |
| Overrated Films | 24 | 19 |
| Cal/Stanford | 17 | 16 |
| Family | 12 | 16 |
| Politics | 8 | 23 |
Queries were down as a whole, proportionate to the traffic (see this month’s healthcheck post), but technology related queries still ruled the roost, and Billy Joel still held on to the number two spot. The other categories also remained relatively stable, with the exception of “I Should Be Sleeping Instead of Thinking About You,” that country song that I still haven’t heard yet.
The Referring Sites
The list of referring sites remained relatively stable this month, with two notable exceptions. CNN.com and Sphere.com (the service CNN uses to link blog posts to their stories) went from nine referrals in July to fifty six in August. Note to self: when blogging about the news, link to CNN’s story. Also of note, images.google.com went from their typical 73 referrals in July to just 5 in August. Weird…
The Keywords
All told, 453 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in August (about 110 fewer than were used in July). Here are some samples:
Once again, we begin with the odd and interesting:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| change dsl filter every six months? | 1 / 445,000 | Well, ya know, as those DSL filters filter out line noise, they can get full. Then you need to change them before all the noise spills out all over the room… |
| song lyrics how i’ve been waiting for you ba dum ba dum oldies | 2 / 11,600 | Gee, I hope he spelled “ba dum ba dum” correctly… |
| isquint crippleware | 5 / 14 | I’m not sure what that is, but it sounds nasty… |
| lions tigers and bears blazing saddles | 6 / 47,000 | No. Lions tigers and bears Wizard of Oz. Some folks will never learn… |
| most rented movies all-time | 7 / 389,000 | Not a bad query to run before renting a movie. Note that Netflix was #14 and Blockbuster.com was #92. |
| joyce deschamps | 7 / 118,000 | This is interesting for a pretty geeky reason: Joyce is one of the commenters in my Billy Joel Concert Review post – that post is so popular that a query on her name now returns my post… |
| how long should a 13 year old sleep for? | 9 / 2,700,000 | Approximately one year. Then they’re 14 year olds… |
| what’s wrong with lacrosse players | 13 / 252,000 | I’m wondering exactly what this person was actually searching for… |
| “high resolution pictures” +”fenway park” | 5 / 48 | Hey – I take offense to that query… |
| new yankee stadium | >500 / 2,130,000 | Now that’s more like it… |
| why is j.p. morgan so important? | >500 / 1,980,000 | I guess you should ask the thousands of people who work there and the millions who bank there… |
| 360 rockingham, simpson oj simpsons north rockingham avenue house |
>500 / 70,800 >500 / 13,600 |
ISBS readers – never giving up the search for the real killer… |
| bar mitzvah disney world | >500 / 175,000 | My oldest is only seven, but hey – that’s a pretty cool idea… |
| how much to bar mitzvah cost today | >500 / 223,000 | ya think this is the same person as the query above? ;-) |
| kristy brinkley | >500 / 213,000 | As per usual: ISBS – friend to those who can’t spell… |
| york peppermint patties | >500 / 229,000 | I get the sensation that I’ve received a pageview… |
| supreme court fonts | na / 491 | Nothing says justice like a good sans serif… |
And, back by popular demand (OK, Lisa told me she found it funny), the “adult” queries (STANDARD WARNING: you have been warned):
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| you’re my instant pleasure dome | 74 / 264,000 | This one sounds dirty, but it’s actually a Billy Joel lyric |
| katie couric look alike porn | >500 / 44,600 | Ick. Ick, ick, ick… |
| sexmovie sleeping | n/a / 427 | I’m no expert, but I’m guessing there isn’t a lot of sleeping going on in those movies… |
| sleeping sex movie sleeping sex boys sleeping sex game sleeping sex movie sleeping sex pictures |
>500 / <various> | I’m guessing there’s a new movie out called “Sleeping Sex?” And who says perusing your website’s logs can’t be educational! |
| winnie-cooper daily updated pictures | >500 / 15,000 | Really? Daily updated pictures? Does she change that much day-to-day? |
| yung sodomy photos | 26 / 17,300 | There’s one in every crowd. My question: Do you think they meant “Jung,” as in sodomy photos of famous philosphers? Or did they mean “young,” as in “Sir, you’re under arrest…” |
Topics: Blogging about Blogs | 1 Comment »
I think a bar mitzvah at Disney World is an excellent idea. I haven’t been there since 1978 (oddly, I keep getting to Disneyland, because it’s so much closer to me), so apparently I need a really good excuse to go.
“I get the sensation” made me laugh out loud. Candy-themed humor apparently does it for me.
“Yung sodomy photos”, I’m guessing, is something Asian-related. Thankfully I don’t know any more than that, or about Katie Couric. Do you think there’s an equivalent market for Walter Cronkite?
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