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How People Found Me – October Edition
By Brian | November 2, 2007 | Share on Facebook
The Categories
| Category | October Count | September Count |
| Technology | 196 | 146 |
| Billy Joel | 183 | 112 |
| Celebrity Look Alikes | 54 | 30 |
| DSL | 46 | 44 |
| Bruce Springsteen | 27 | 0 |
| Adult/Porn-Related | 23 | 33 |
| Cal/Stanford | 23 | 22 |
| ISBS Song | 18 | 14 |
| Politics | 15 | 17 |
| Concerts | 14 | 14 |
| Penn | 13 | 16 |
| Overrated Films | 12 | 10 |
| Baton | 12 | 0 |
| Baseball | 11 | 23 |
Queries were up dramatically again this month (736 vs. 626), thanks primarily to increased Technology queries, and queries about Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.
Technology still leads the pack, but rumors of Billy Joel touring again seem to have fueled a resurgence in Billy Joel related queries, to the point where he almost caught the technology queries this month. The other categories were pretty much the standard group, although I’m pleased to see that the Adult/Porn-Related queries have died down a bit. The one that continues to surprise me the most is the Cal/Stanford queries – how so many people wind up on my site as opposed to YouTube for that clip is beyond me. It kind of makes me wish I had something meaningful to add on the subject, so that all the visitors to that post have something interesting to read. I don’t, though – I just like watching the video…
The Referring Sites
Each month seems to have a new favorite referrer. Last month, it was The Gothamist, who linked to my taxi burning post and generated hundreds of visitors and thousands of pageviews. This month, the honor goes to Backstreets, the site dedicated to all things Springsteen. I posted a link to my review there, and 51 visitors looked at 86 pages because of it. A comment on John Scalzi’s blog, ironically about the practice of commenting on blogs to drive traffic to your own blog, yielded 16 visitors and 36 pageviews. My friend Ilya’s blog generated a consistent 14 visitors and 41 pageviews, although for some rather shady content (you’ll have to click over to find out what). Also, the Penn Band’s baton related shenanigans drove some traffic my way from IvyGate, digg, Facebook, and del.icio.us. Ah, college…
The Keywords
All told, 736 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in October (about 110 more than were used in September). Here are some samples:
In honor of the baseball post-season, we begin this month with baseball:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| when’s the world series | >500 / 250,000 | Clearly a huge baseball fan here… |
| commentators for rockies padres game tonight | >500 / 23,400 | I’m only watching if I can hear Jerry Coleman… |
Moving on to some interesting Billy Joel-related queries:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| belly joel my life lyric | 4 / 232,000 | Belly joel – it’s like “jelly roll” with a head cold… |
| billy hoel just the way you are lyrics | 1 / 15,900 | Billy Hoel – the German version! |
| use of transistor radio in billy joel songs | 1 / 35,300 | For listening. In 1975. Time to upgrade to an iPod, my friend… |
| what can i expect in a billy joel concert | 1 / 297,000 | Get out of the blogs and get over to YouTube, my friend… |
And onward to the just plain wild and whacky:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| can someone find me a monologue from harry potter | >500 / 164,000 | Hermione, or not Hermione – that is the question… |
| html- celebrity look alike | 55 / 1,710,000 | Here’s someone who’s not so much interested in what celebrities he/she looks like, but more about how the website works. My kind of Googler… |
| is section 36 row d good seats in madison square garden | 13 / 120,000 | No. It’s on the floor, so it’s not elevated, and it’s all the way in the back. |
| madison square garden seating sec 94 reviews | 4 / 176,000 | Section 94 was in great form tonight. They started with a couple of well known rock tunes, then sat down comfortably for a ballad. Their encore left something to be desired when the first three seats in the second row left early, and the fourth row, seat 5, kept getting up to go the bathroom. Now, section 92 – that was a great show… |
| scalp wachovia center price concert | 1 / 750 | A criminal who does his research. Redeeming qualities? Perhaps… |
| incredible lawsuit | 5 / 1,470,000 | Maybe a guy who’s suing a Disney cartoon? |
| inverted universe | >500 / 901,000 | This guy was querying with Bizarro-Google. |
| 8 track tapes | >500 / 9,770,000 | Googling for 8 track tapes? What a mixed anacrhonism… |
| funny quotes using the word “overconfidence” | >500 / 15,200 | Ah, those overconfidence jokes – hours of fun for the whole family… |
| should i keep cds | >500 / 3,650,000 | No. Buy an iPod. |
| titanicstop | n/a / 10 | Iceberg. Next question. |
| warning underwear why should we have them | >500 / 914,000 | Ewww…if you have to ask, it’s way too late. |
| what 7 thing i should do if you are in a hurricane | >500 / 1,880,000 | #1) I should help you. #2) I should help you. You get the idea… |
| what is a reason people should live new york | >500 / 10,900,000 | It certainly makes the commute easier, no? |
| when is ross gelbspan’s birthday? | n/a / 267 | Ross Gelbspan is a Boston Globe writer who wrote about global warming. This guy must send birthday cards to his favorite columnists… |
| spotlight search for windows xp | n/a / 487 | No. Spotlight Search for Mac. If you want that with Windows, upgrade to Vista. |
And finally, back by popular demand, it’s the Adult/Porn-related queries (WARNING: You have been warned):
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| wife sleeping pictures, pictures of sleepy naked wife, rate my naked sleeping wife pics, spouse took nude pictures of wife while asleep | 122 / 2,260,000 >500 / 2,020,000 >500 / 1,2340,000 63 / 263,000 | I can only imagine that these wives don’t use the Internet much… |
| daddy does sons sexpics, mom and son sex pics | >500 / 274,000 >500 / 2,290,000 | Gross, gross, and gross. I can promise you these folks were disappointed when they clicked over to my site… |
| naked guys asleep, naked guys washing cars | >500 / 1,340,000 231 / 749,000 | How about naked guys washing cars while asleep? |
| breast sleep sex pictures, sleeping breast sex pic | >500 / 2,130,000 >500 / 2,130,000 | The problem with sleeping breasts is that when you wake them, they get all cranky… |
| mythical creature sex pictures | >500 / 286,000 | OK, this guy is weird even among this crowd… |
| should i sleep naked | >500 / 1,820,000 | Apparently not – someone (probably your spouse) will photograph you and put your picture on the internet. |
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