Today I checked out all the search terms that have led people to my blog in the past few months. And I must say, there’s a fascinating sociological study in there somewhere. Hm. I’ll get right on that.
But in the meantime, here are the best and brightest, followed by my sparkling commentary.
Scattergories questions, Christmas scattergories, scattergories letter s, [misspelled variations] : 5
For some reason, people google that a lot. I have to wonder: Are they in the middle of a Scattergories game and searching for words in order to somehow cheat? Or just pondering scattergories and their place in the universe?
I bet pastors who alliterate a lot are good at Scattergories. Just sayin.
Rassin frassin: 2
That people would search for this phrase at all just made me giddy… People googling MY catch phrase! Then Charlie pointed out that I didn’t invent it – Yosemite Sam gets all the credit. Dang. Thank you Dr. Killjoy, for bursting my bubble. (Rassin frassin…)
(Hey, you know what? As a kid when I’d read “Yosemite Sam,” I’d pronounce it in my head “YOZE-mite Sam.” Didn’t connect the print form with the cartoon guy on TV for YEARS. Of course now I wonder: where exactly DOES one READ about Yosemite Sam? I don’t remember any Looney Toons comic books…)
Toastabags recipe, toastabags reciepe, toastabags how long to cook, what are toastabags made of? 6
Finally, I’ve found my tribe. Inept Cooks Unite! So these people own my cherished timesaving cooking device and are now trying to figure it out. Four of the six were looking for recipes (or in the case of one, reciepes). From what I understand, recipes are included in the box, and I don’t imagine there’s a ton of variations. What do they expect to be able to cook in a Toastabag? Duck confit?
I totally need to order my Toastabags and blog about it.
Chicken foot necklaces: 1
Even though only one person landed on my blog after searching for this, it is frightening to me. On so many levels. I may lose sleep tonight wondering if they found my post funny — or made a little Voodoo Doll Steph…
Bubble but: 1
Ahem.
How did google know?
Dueling banjo possums: 1
Searching for THAT, they landed HERE. Google seems to believe that my blog and that topic go together. In fact, I’m the second site on the results page. And for the life of me, I CAN’T figure out WHY. *snort*
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Those are awesome, right? This will be hard to imagine, but they pale in the face of my current favorite:
What does stinkbert use for his pizza: 1
So many questions!
Who is this Stinkbert person? Is he known for his pizza? Then why does the searcher not already know what he uses on it?
Also: Is a Stinkbert Pizza like a New York Pizza? What is the market for Stinkbert Pizza? Do you think I could make money opening a franchise?
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Of course, other burning questions come to mind, such as:
Can you make Stinkbert Pizza in a Toastabag? While sitting on your bubble butt (ahem), wearing a chicken foot necklace, and listening to your rassin frassin pet possums play Dueling Banjos?
Ooo! And playing Scattergories! And reading about YOZE-mite Sam!
I think I just invented a new game: Google MadLibs.
14 responses so far ↓
1 Daniel W. Slocum // Nov 20, 2008 at 2:40 am
Right on! And of course you just increased your potential hit rate exponentially for all of those words. Well Done.
2 SHerri // Nov 20, 2008 at 8:42 am
Very intersting.
Very funny!
3 Rachel @ Grasping for Objectivity in my Subjective Life // Nov 20, 2008 at 9:38 am
Great idea for a post! I’m going to have to steal it and list all of my odd Google searches sometime. Of course #1 – and I get hit 3 or 4 times A DAY – is “Toenail Art”. Although I think painting little butterflies ONTO toenails is what they are looking for, not 3-D art made OUT OF toenail clippings. It makes me chuckle.
4 thedomesticfringe // Nov 20, 2008 at 9:38 am
Great post! People are so funny. Almost daily I have people who end up on my blog because they’ve googled “Lucy in the Bible”. I had no idea that many people thought Lucy came right out of the pages of Scripture.
5 notsosahm // Nov 20, 2008 at 10:45 am
I love these posts! You’ve got some interesting searches… My top one is “don’t tell Mommy”. Why would that many people be googling that!?!?
And Google Madlibs. You may have hit on something there.
6 cassie Boorn // Nov 20, 2008 at 1:21 pm
That is priceless! I never realized the stupid things people google!
7 elizabeth channel // Nov 20, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Duck confit! You are too funny! I love this idea, though!
8 Rachel K // Nov 21, 2008 at 12:56 pm
lol. did i make the list for dueling banjo possums, because if not, google goofed! that’s too funny! teach me how to find that, please.
9 Joan S // Nov 21, 2008 at 4:20 pm
That roundup of terms was hilarious! I’ve just recently found your blog (NO, I didn’t come here from Google!) and am enjoying it very much!
10 Beth // Nov 22, 2008 at 1:31 pm
HAHA! I wandered here today from Sherri’s blog and always LOVE your comments on SCL. This post almost made me Beth McPeemypants.
I’ll have to drop by more often!
11 Aly @ Lip Zip // Nov 22, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I always laugh at how people are landing on certain blogs. People come up with some crazy search terms!
Visiting via BPOTW.
12 Kate Coveny Hood // Nov 23, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Love those keyword searches! I’ve done a few posts like this – but got in trouble this week for writing a post on one in particular. Apparently the searcher took offense. Ooops! Who ever thought that those the people conducting searches were actually reading!?
13 Daja // Nov 26, 2008 at 4:09 am
Good stuff!
Two thumbs up!
Visiting from BPOTW!
14 katdish // Dec 10, 2008 at 9:39 am
If you use phrases like “why atheists don’t believe”, you will get lots of hits, but they just drone on and on about how stupid you are for believing in “magic” and claim to disprove the existence of God with some whacked out “life only has meaning because we assign meaning to it” mumbo jumbo. Also, if you write a political opinion blog that is decidedly conservative like my friend Kris, you will get lots of traffic. On the down side, you will eventually have to block all the comments you get from neo-nazi skin heads.
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