Okay, so you write about your life for a year, you pontificate, you try to be funny, clever, sentimental, and whacky. And you practice your writing, noting the things that work, and the things that don't. You dig on the whole "cadre of readers" you seem to have attracted. You are perhaps a little too fervently tending to the blog. No matter, the rewards seem to outweigh the teetering on the brink of obsession part.
And then you realize that much of your traffic results from Google searches. These three searches have come up more than once just in the past week:
How to make yourself faint. (This is the most common search that leads here.)
How to make perfect french fries.
Why do I have brown specks in my urine?
(Can I get an ewwww?)
What post sttracts the fainting thing?
ReplyDeleteurine? ewwwww
Oh, how do you make perfect french fries??
ReplyDeleteAnother big fat ewwwwwwww from me. :P
ReplyDeleteI'm giving an "awww, poor soul" to the person with brown specks.
ReplyDeleteI had one that googled "my husband + vagina"...what the hell was that all about, I wonder?!
ReplyDeleteThe site meter is almost addicting as the blogging, seeing how people find you sometimes is disturbing. Good thing I have (basically) nothing to hide (read: live a boring life) it is amazingly easy to find someone. Creepy.
How do you know these results come from google ? You were doing google test ?
ReplyDeleteI get strange Google searches, too, and they're usually random words.
ReplyDeleteWhat is up with that?
So by typing "brown specks in my urine", you're now guaranteed to be the number one link for those inquiries.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations.
Hey, I want to know the answers to these questions too. So strange how that all happens.
ReplyDeleteI found you from a comment you posted on another blog. And your cute picture. I've stayed for the content. And the fries.
ReplyDeleteI think I am the only blogger I know that maybe gets one or two keyword hits a week. I just checked now and 1 google search brought someone to my blog and it was a friend that forgot the url.
ReplyDeleteI guess my subject matter is of little interest to people :)
Here's an eewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww from Wisbo
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your blogging obsessive or not, it's supposed to be fun, right?
Ever amused by your musings
I am upset that your blog has not answered my question -- why are there brown specks in my urine?
ReplyDeleteI must have missed your post on brown things in the urine.
ReplyDeleteI would imagine that you will soon be getting tons of hits for auto-fellatio based on your post a few days ago. It’s something for you to anticipate.
ReplyDeleteMany people come to blog looking for “straight men tricked into gay sex.” Instead, they get a post critiquing gay boys for being obsessed with straight men. So, go figure.
Finally, if I had brown specks in my urine, I would consult a doctor, not google. I am not saying, I am just saying.
Okay, I have an hour to kill before the next class. I have to check some blogs, but since there are questions above, I thought I'd answer a couple. (don't get used to that though, lol)
ReplyDeleteThe fainting thing was from the November 16th post.
The perfect french fry recipe is on April 1st.
July 19th will take you to the brown speck urine post which is entitled "Scatty cat" Funny, it's on a Tuesday so that would have qualified for Childhood Trauma Tuesdays.
I think I should devise a special yoga class specifically for auto-fellatio. That's not a bad idea....
I echo David. I found you through a comment on Rox's blog and had to see who this gorgeous guy was. Stayed for the content. It was also right around the time of HNT and the 33 hour scarf. (How could I leave after that?!)
ReplyDeleteNot to worry how people find you - your blog is very interesting and you well-written. They will stay.
Jane
Tracking your pageloads can be bloody addictive--and revealing, as you demonstrate.
ReplyDeleteSomeone left a comment about Jocelyn Wildenstein on my blog (the woman who has had so much plastic surgery, she looks almost feline) and presto! my blog was found in a Google search.
Now it'll probably happen to you!
Oh, I have to find out about Google tests. And I'm really worried about the poor fellow with the brown specks. Not you, I hope?
ReplyDeleteD
Ok - dumb question from a novice blogger here, but HOW do you find this stuff out???
ReplyDeleteAnd, for the record, I did NOT Google you. You very nicely left a comment on my blog, and I was hooked when I found out you were both a word-geek AND a knitter!
Oh ... I haven't tried the fry recipe yet, but it sounds excellent!
the word 'taboo' is in the title of my blog...
ReplyDeletewell, you know where I come from.
ReplyDeleteWay way back in the beginning...
So sue me if I have a question about my urine.
ReplyDeleteOh, I figured it out (thanks, Google!): The brown specks are from all the boy-poop lodged in my urethra franklin.
ReplyDeleteteh: omg
ReplyDeleteHow does one find out what search words are used to get to your blog? Now I am curious.
ReplyDeleteAdd my ewww, and perhaps the odd 'Ahhh' to the chorus.
ReplyDeleteYou are not alone. Google searches that go to my blog are "Ground Hog Day" "Sock Chainletters" & "Common Knowledge".
ReplyDeletei think i prefer not to know some of the searches. i've never looked it up.
ReplyDeleteand psst, pete, the check's in the mail ;)
I love your blog. Especially that you update it often. Thank you for keeping me entertained.
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