Tuesday, April 12, 2005

How Do People End Up At Blogspot?

The counter that I have on this web site also tracks how people got here. If you did a search on Yahoo or Google or any search engine, it grabs the text of the search. People come here for a lot of reasons--usually some specific topical reference. Today I noticed several people come from what turned out to be a porn site. It seems the site had All This Is That as a favorite link because of a couple of stories: mainly Frank Zappa's story of how he never ate s**t on stage, and the piece where I talked about the low esteem the Catholic Church was held in in Baptist churches.

Other sites have linked to the story about fishing with my old man, and some of the My Worst Jobs stories. One site on the presidency, has links to several of the digital paintings and thumbnail bios of the Presidents.

A lot of people come here from searches on poetry, the phrase Heroes And Villains (which was the title of 50 posts over time); searches on The President, and on POTUS; and various political topics. References to the Grateful Dead draw a lot of customers. Clearly it's titles of posts and names that draw people here.

Anyhow it's fascinating some of the twisted searches that draw people here too--sex with dogs has popped up a couple of times, although I have never addressed that subject (or engaged in the act)...but it must be in some quote or something.

For months, you couldn't find topics I'd addressed directly, but now that I am in the crawlers line of sight, even slight phrases buried in the middle of a posting will come up in a search. And in searches where you don't understand exactly why it was "googled." Yahoo and Google are by the far the most common search referrals, with Yahoo referring slightly more people.

The majority of referrals, however, come from Blogspot itself. People click the next blog button and are taken on a blind ride. People apparently do that a lot.

The third most common referral here seems to be either people who know me, or who have read the blog before and bookmarked it.

2 comments:

Monkey said...

Great post! I'm also hooked on seeing what people have searched for and ended up on my site - here's what I have currently:

yellow monkey dryer eat poo
television commercial ancient chinese secret
put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up lyrics
monkeys throwing poop at people
penis trapped in cage
what monkeys eat to keep there eye in good shape
camel toe asia

As you say - some of these I can figure out - but some of them are downright scary! :-)

Keekee Brummet said...

Those are great Monkey! That makes me think I should start saving some of the searches and blog them periodically, because there are definitely some strange ones. /jack