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How People Found Me – February Edition
By Brian | March 4, 2008 | Share on Facebook
My monthly analysis and commentary on how people made their way to Familygreenberg.com:
The Categories
| Category | February Count | January Count |
| Technology | 220 | 221 |
| Billy Joel | 181 | 110 |
| Celebrity Look Alikes | 58 | 38 |
| DSL | 39 | 52 |
| Overrated Films | 26 | 10 |
| Politics | 21 | 16 |
| Family | 20 | 11 |
| Accent | 17 | 8 |
| Adult/Porn-Related | 15 | 19 |
| Cal/Stanford | 13 | 19 |
| Television | 11 | 0 |
| Concerts | 11 | 7 |
| Penn | 11 | 15 |
| The Simpsons | 10 | 11 |
| The “I Should be Sleeping” Song | 10 | 4 |
| Disney | 9 | 5 |
| TicTacs | 4 | 1 |
| Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree | 3 | 21 |
| Hava Nagila | 2 | 12 |
Queries were up slightly this month (733 vs. 662). Billy Joel, who fell back into the #2 slot last month, made a surge to 180 (up 65%), but did not overtake Technology related queries, which held remarkably steady at 220. This month also saw the resurgence of some favorites – Celebrity Look Alikes up 53% to 58, Overrated Films up 160% to 26, Politics up 31% to 21, queries about my family up 82% to 20, and queries about speech accents up 113% to 17. There were also a new category – 11 queries about television and TV personalities (owing, I think, to the writer’s strike and the new seasons of several reality shows that I’ve blogged about).
The Referring Sites
Referral site of the month awards go to jeffporten.com and jasonbennion.com, who were responsible for 32 and 13 pageviews each. Also, I’ve apparently been linked to by facebook (more specifically, UPenn’s Facebook), which provided 14 pageviews, although I’m not a member so I’m not really sure what the link is for/about.
The Keywords
All told, 733 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in February (71 more than were used in January). Here are some of the more entertaining samples:
We start with Billy Joel. Although he came in #2, his queries are the most entertaining this month (leave it to the Rock Star to have entertaining web queries…):
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| all my life billy joel traduzione | >500 / 2,470 | When I first read this, given Joel’s recent rehab history, I assumed “traduzione” was a prescription drug. As it turns out, it means “translation” in Italian. So this is just an Italian Google user who wants to see Joel’s lyrics in Italian. |
| billy joel at madison square garden for farewell performance | 3 / 39,900 | Given his current tour schedule, the rumors of his “farewell performance” seem to be greatly exaggerated |
| billy joel live in hartford disc 3 | 10 / 97,900 | Why do I get the feeling that “Live in Harvard” is not a (professionally released) CD? |
| “billy joel” “randy jackson” | 78 / 113,000 | Can we infer from this query the (Google-generated) rumor that Joel is appearing on American Idol again this year? |
| bruce springsteen, hearing loss | >500 / 140,000 | OK, it’s not Billy Joel, but it’s close: does this mean we can start calling Bruce the “Boss with Hearing Loss?” |
Next, we move on to some interesting queries about me or my family:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| brian greenberg date | 227 / 872,000 | I’m flattered, really, but I’m married. |
| bryan greenberg’s band | 221 / 460,000 | Well, I do have a band, but it doesn’t come up in the search results. Ironically, though, five of the top twenty results refer to me and the University of Pennsylvania Marching Band (which is definitely a band I’m associated with a great deal, but by no means my band). |
| greenberg family foundation | 432 / 1,290,000 | How I wish. But no, sorry, that’s not me. . . |
| i should be sleeping greenberg | 1 / 230,000 | Check it out – someone who seems to have actually been looking for my blog. And guess what – the #1 search result. The world is officially in perfect harmony. . . |
| sherry smile | 6 / 447,000 | I just need to point out here that of the 447,000 “sherry smile”s out there, my wife’s is #6. Not bad. . . |
Politics is heating up, so how about a couple in that category:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| brian greenberg + 2008 campaign | 1 / 253,000 | If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. . . |
| bush endorses clinton | >500 / 1,720,000 | Heh. Here’s what happens when you forget to put quotes in a Google query. Sure – those three words have appeared on many web pages together, but in that order? Probably not. . . |
And then there’s always the weird & wacky:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| mushroom trip after lasik surgery | >500 / 34,200 | Ooh boy – I’m thinking maybe the surgery didn’t go so well. If the world looks like a mushroom trip, you better consult your eye doctor again. |
| the year 2176 | >500 / 1,760,000 | I can’t imagine there’s a lot of info on the web about this topic just yet, but you never know. . . |
| what is the time of the longest superbowl anthem | >500 / 60,400 | Who says there are too many statistics in sports? |
| dolly porten | 88 / 14,300 | This one’s just for my friend, Jeff Porten. I’ll also point out that I was hit #88, so there are 87 other ways the term “Dolly Porten” is relevant to the world in some way. |
| “has four fingers” -thief -berry -marilyn -cat -kitten -pussy -oprah -cats | >500 / 1,540,000 | It’s like a Google riddle. My guess is “Mickey Mouse.” |
| what kind of english accent do you have | 5 / 489,000 | Best query of the month, IMHO. ‘Cuz ya know, the French English accent is good, but the Spanish English accent is so much better. . . |
And finally, the Adult/Porn-Related queries. The days of being hit with hundreds of these seem to have subsided, so we only have a few worth mentioning:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| adult porn pitchers | >500 / 141,000 | Poor speller, or a new definition for the term “relief pitcher?” |
| dirty pitchers of ashley tisdale | >500 / 296,000 | I Should Be Sleeping – the blog of choice for poor spellers with inappropriate thoughts about Disney movies. |
| family nude camps | >500 / 589,000 | “Hey, watch your language! This is a family nude camp!” |
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