« Familygreenberg.com Health Check – July Edition | Main | Voting made easy… »
How People Found Me – July Edition
By Brian | August 6, 2007 | Share on Facebook
The Categories
| Category | July Count | June Count |
| Technology | 184 | 151 |
| Billy Joel | 76 | |
| Celebrity Look Alikes | 50 | 70 |
| DSL | 30 | 22 |
| Politics | 23 | 12 |
| Overrated Films | 19 | 19 |
| Family | 16 | 8 |
| Cal/Stanford | 16 | 10 |
| ISBS Song/Lyrics | 14 | 10 |
For the second month in a row, technology related queries lead the list, surpassing the once dominant Billy Joel entries. In fact, Billy Joel is in serious danger of dropping to #3, behind the inexplicably popular Celebrity Look-a-Like searches. New to the list this month are searches involving politics, searches directly involving me or my family, and a small uptick in searches for the Cal/Stanford “big game” and searches for the lyrics to a country song called “I Should be Sleeping Instead of Dreaming About You,” which I’ve never heard.
The Referring Sites
New to the referral section this month are burlaki.com, a blog belonging to a friend and colleague who is currently residing in London and keeping his American (and Russian) friends & family up to date on his travels, CNN.com who was nice enough to link to one of my posts (for more on that phenomenon, click here), and imdb.com, where a commenter on one of their forums (which I didn’t know existed until now), quoted one of my posts. All told, the above links resulted in roughly 25 visits & roughly 30 pageviews (or about 2% of the total).
The Keywords
All told, 563 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in July (about 120 fewer than were used in June). Here are some samples:
We begin with the odd and interesting:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| its a groovy time for a movie time | 4 / 1,490,000 | I didn’t realize I was the purveyor of Austin Powers-inspired cinematic marketing slogans |
| feel something wrong with the world | 7 / 50,800,000 | Gotta love this logic: 1) feel something wrong with the world, 2) Google it, 3) Click on a familygreenberg.com link to find out what it is. Sorry to disappoint… |
| do you want to display the nonsecure items? explorer boring | 31 / 309 | Boring? I’ve heard it called lots of things, but never boring… |
| who sang dum de da | 34 / 279,000 | Er….I’m guessing just about everyone at one time or another, no? |
| examples of teenage cellphone voicemails | 148 / 271,000 | Are there really such things on the internet? And who’s searching for them? |
| what are stem cells good for | 270 / 2,150,000 | It’s actually quite an impressive list, and I’m proud to be on it… |
| ratings graph chart evening news katie couric -debut | >500 / 17,700 | I think someone finally figured out that her debut was the exception, huh? |
| who needs a babysitter in lakewood,oh | >500 / 21,900 | Quite a specific request for Google. Serves ’em right for clicking through to my site… |
| chez greenberg | >500 / 270,000 | Oui, Oui, Bonjour Madame e Monsieur. Ca va? |
| how to sneak things onto a cruise | >500 / 295,000 | We at ISBS do not condone such behavior… |
| wind blew my car into my own home will insurance pay for the damage to the home | >500 / 310,000 | OK, this guy either lives in a tornado zone, or he has the worst excuse for driving his care into his house I’ve ever heard… |
| what do i do when my bank account balance vanished? | >500 / 556,000 | World’s most desparate Google Query? |
| rationale of gambling | >500 / 698,000 | Gee, I hope it’s not the same guy as the one above… |
| i’ve been working on the railroad | >500 / 1,640,000 | Seriously? Someone should write a song about you… |
| sleeping the laptop good? | >500 / 1,900,000 | Ladies & Gentlemen, the winner of this month’s foreign language query! |
| most interesting google searches | >500 / 65,000,000 | A query for interesting Google searches turns up a page with a list of interesting Google searches. Ugh…my head hurts. |
| one of these please | >500 / 528,000,000 | Er…sure – help yourself. (What could he/she possibly have been Googling for?) |
| fighter jets over leominster ma | n/a / 432 | Again, the logic astounds: hear fighter jets, Google, click on Familygreenberg.com for answers… |
| guess the dictator sitcom star | >500 / 45,500 | Sounds hysterical… |
And now, for the first time since I’ve been doing this, we come upon some queries that are, shall we say, “adult” in nature (WARNING: you have been warned):
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| advancements about cervical incompetence (2005-2007) | n/a / 107 | OK, it’s a little explicit, but it’s medical, so we’ll give it a pass… |
| did harry potter sleep with emma | 365 / 491,000 | Now, now – that’s just wrong… |
| naked pictures of kristy brinkley | >500 / 167,000 | OK, we’ve achieved the common every porn search… |
| sleeping sex movie | >500 / 3,300,000 | More creative, and more relevant to this site, but still rather common… |
| mother inlaw in lingerie | >500 / 348,000 | Bingo – now we’re into the bizarre. Forgive me while I go wash a mental image out of my head… |
| he gets it up the ass by a heshe | 1 / 713,000 | Well, that’ll do it. Thanks. The bad news is, this is the only #1 on the list this month. The good news is this query somehow made it’s way to my post on Michael Moore… |
| videos of any president peeing | >500 / 921,000 | Oh, man – seriously? |
Topics: Blogging about Blogs | 2 Comments »
FamilyGreenberg.Com is proudly powered by WordPress.
The template is from RFDN and has been modified extensively by yours truly
Here is the RSS feed for the Entries and here is the RSS feed for the Comments