I don’t check my stats to see my blog traffic, although I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should but I really don’t. Instead I check the recent activity. I like to know who visits, how they got here and what they were looking for.
That last part is a totally loaded statement because as I sat and looked at the search results for The Guilty Parent… it just reminded me that there are some things you should never know the answer to; what people were looking for when they landed here – is one of those things.
I get a lot of searches for questions and issues about the Palm Pre Plus. If you’re one of those people, email me directly, it will be more interesting if we just talk it out.
I also get a lot of results for the bical grippers that I reviewed. Peanut LOVED these. So did I. We’re sad that his feet has outgrown them.
The Duck Hunter game gets a lot of search results too, apparently people really like simulated duck hunting games. Who knew?
The posts on Dr. Berman’s appearance on Oprah gets searched All. The Time. (I’ll save my comments on that for another day).
Then… there are these (and this is where it gets interesting):
Hate husband could it be postpartum depression
On the chance that it is PPD, get help. He really wants you to and doesn’t like being hated. Been there, done that. Have the T-shirt and coffee mug.
Then there is… Can postpartum depression make you hate your spouse
One of two things is going on here… A). The husband from the first search result is on to his wife or B) He’s trying to figure out why his wife hates him. If they are totally unrelated searches then I think it’s best that these two people NOT meet.
Then they get really scary and I become worried when I see a result like this:
how to get my sister to show me her boobs
Seriously disturbed and even more disturbed by two other similar searches. So much so that I won’t even post it here except to say that I hope the none of the searches were made by the same person… if so, someone needs locked up. Who am I kidding? They all need locked up.
But they aren’t all like that. In fact, I now have proof that other people have neighbor issues too and still others have no clue how to live in or next to the Amish community. Case in point:
how to deal with the amish
find my amish roots
that one I really want to reach out and contact. How would you go about finding out your Amish heritage? That’s one I’d be interested in knowing too. And it doesn’t even matter that I’m not Amish.
my neighbors don’t like me
do amish have to follow us laws
neighbors who think they are entitled to your property
Heh. I have no comment on that.
Then there are results that make want to hold people and hug them and tell them that it will be Okay and try to help any way I can:
parents guilt about making a child
I sincerely hope that Google left off a word… like making a child go to bed without dinner, do chores, go to school. You know, something that doesn’t warrant the suspicion that they are horrible people who feel guilty for having a child in the first place because they are screwing the kid up epically.
how to stop fidgeting in children
that’s good SEO right there.
kids who grow up with bad parent
There are many more like that one… too many to make me feel that ours is a loving wonderful world with good moms and dads.
There you have it. A snippet into the search results for my blog.
Stats aren’t for traffic; they are for amusement. Mostly mine.
I like to have things proven to me so often I’ll search those same things to see just how long it took them to find me. Since Google is a living entity all its own (or the Google Gods would like you think that they are), I realize that pages may get bumped up or down. There’s room for error but it’s still interesting to see what other results come up (and to see where people probably should have clicked).
I’d love to keep this conversation going so let’s toss it to you; do you have any interesting search results that have landed people on your blog?
Have you ever tried to mimic the search results?
A couple of times my site has apparently come up as a result when people searched for “jeans.” JEANS, as in the denim pants that are sold or at least mentioned on approximately one billion million Web sites. So, yeah, that’s something I didn’t even try to duplicate. I tend to think my blog stats are screwing with me a bit.
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