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How People Found Me – May Edition
By Brian | June 1, 2007 | Share on Facebook
The second of my two monthly features is the familiar How People Found Me, because when it’s not about the pageviews, it’s all about the keywords.
I’ve chosen to do this in two sections – categories and keywords.
The Categories
| Category | Count |
| Billy Joel | 163 |
| Technology | 140 |
| Celebrity Look Alikes | 80 |
| Overrated Films | 21 |
| DSL | 20 |
| Al Gore | 18 |
| Steven Wright | 17 |
My four posts on Billy Joel’s latest tour and single release (the playlist, the concert review, the song review, and the song lyrics) have been a HUGE Google magnet. In the month of May, 163 different search queries brought people to one of these four posts. That’s more than five unique queries per day!
Similarly, my various posts about technology issues (specifically Blogger, Google, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, my new Dell PC and HP Laptop, and my Tech Guide reviews) have caught the attention of 140 unique queries. And a couple of posts I made on a lark about a site that does face recognition and suggests celebrity look alikes has garnered 80 unique queries.
The others on this list are smaller, but they surprised me in terms of how many people would think to search on them. A post on some random Top 20 Over-rated Films of All Time list generated 21 queries. A Ramblings article I wrote in December of 2004 about DSL installation brought in 20 queries. My review of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth yielded 18, and a couple of jokes I heard Steven Wright tell on Letterman one night brought on 17 (many of which, by the way, were flawed attempts to quote the actual text of Wright’s jokes).
The Keywords
All told, over 700 queries resulted in hits to Familygreenberg.com in May. Here are some that I found the most interesting:
| Query | Rank / # of Results | Comments |
| current event on tapeworms | 1 / 217,000 | That’s me – worldwide authority on tapeworm news! |
| upsilon sigma alpha | 3 / 745,000 | It was just a joke! Upsilon Sigma Alpha = USA |
| oprah face recognition software | 4 / 249,000 | People really need software to recognize Oprah’s face? |
| how to spell “”google”” as a verb | 7 / 258,000 | Err…G-O-O-G-L-E?!? |
| jerry seinfeld phil mickelson | 7 / 13,800 | Funniest golf game ever… |
| taylor hicks is sleeping in bed | 8 / 168,000 | As opposed to sleeping . . . where, exactly? |
| cartoon technophobe mother | 8 / 715 | Sounds like a rather arcane cartoon… |
| miraculous recoveries from female online liars | 12 / 44,800 | Those female online liars – they sure know how to bounce back! |
| whats the point in sleeping | 13 (and 14!) / 8,560,000 | I ask myself this all the time… |
| pronounce water philadelphia | 19 / 269,000 | Must have been some out-of-towner who couldn’t get water in Philly & turned to Google… |
| will you give me some information about what happens to an underwater ecosystem after an earthquake? | 35 / 45,500 | This isn’t that strange a query, I was just ammused at how the person spoke to Google like it was a person… |
| hasselhoff eating pizza | 41 / 125,000 | Obviously a slow news day… |
| elton john”” and “”tired of singing”” | 105 / 243,000 | Maybe he should write the words & let that other guy sing, then… |
| working out porten | 180 / 115,000 | Now here’s one of the few Google searches where I actually feel like I deserve a higher score! |
| atlantic city escorts | 350 / 1,320,000 | Speaking of working out Porten…(ok, that was a cheap shot…) |
| how much money would have ralph kramden have saved nasa | 0 / 233 | Pow! Zoom! Right to the moon!! |
| famous people out of marlboro hs / marlboro nj | >500 / 122,000 | Really? 122,000 webpages about this? Must be short web pages… |
| all important people born in oh. | >500 / 2,470,000 | A slightly longer list (but only slightly…) |
| greenberg puppy | >500 / 122,000 | Not in my house… |
| mac consultants +erode | >500 / 102,000 | What are they implying here?!? |
| pun of the year | >500 / 1,450,000 | To all who knew me growing up – yeah, that’s right – someone googled “pun of the year” and wound up at MY site… |
| should couples sleep separate at their first wedding night | >500 / 1,060,000 | Maybe that’s what led to the second wedding night… |
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For the guy who wanted to pronounce water in Philadelphia — it’s waahrter. No, I don’t know where the intrusive r came from. No, I can’t get rid of it.
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