Comments on: The Oddities of Google

By: Bumblebee Blog » Blog Archive » More Googling Fun

Bumblebee Blog » Blog Archive » More Googling Fun — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:45:27 +0000

[...] Patrick at Bifurcated Carrots writes informative and detailed posts about such things as the foundation of his 325-year-old house in Amsterdam and weed burners. Nevertheless, the largest number of hits he has received was from a light hearted post about Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. [...]

By: Bare Bones Gardener

Bare Bones Gardener — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:08:13 +0000

I was just checking my stats and see I have come up under the google search “multi-day bondage explained”. And I think I will leave that one there……….

By: kathy

kathy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:54:45 +0000

Not to mention the spam comments I miss now and then. Someone Googled me recently via “garden hair relaxing”. They found me from a spam comment with all sorts of off-topic lines (linked to who knows what site). Other search terms today include “aerial view of gorgeous yard”, “tomato taste test”, “salt marsh hay”, and “ugly bugs”. Who can predict what my little niche will be.

I’m not really sure that knowing these terms helps to figure out how to increase your traffic (if this is what you want to do). They often seem fairly random. I prefer to read my comments.

By: Metta

Metta — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:23:34 +0000

blueblue, my guess would be that the “tating” thing isn’t really your fault. One thing I’ve learned from looking at Google searches is that people are abysmally poor spellers when they type in that little box; my guess would be they were searching for “tatting.”

I just posted a few days ago about a rather uhm, visceral Google search that found my site. I justly deserved it, though *laugh*

I changed my site’s name in part because Google was sending so many people to me who clearly didn’t want what I have to offer. It seems to have worked. Other than what Grendel’s mother does with her weekends, most searches that find me now have to do with Kuan Yin – entirely appropriate.

By: Bare Bones Gardener

Bare Bones Gardener — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:18:24 +0000

I was pointed by ericat as meme tag “victim” and you are one of my “victims” – please have go to look at my blog for the details on the 8 happy thoughts Meme…

By: blueblue

blueblue — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:54:11 +0000

oh ok *oooops* on page 5 *grin*.

By: blueblue

blueblue — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:47:06 +0000

I confess that my topic vege-tating resulted in a number of searches on ‘tating’. I’ve no idea if it’s a real word or not, but promise to write more useful titles in the future.

Eating lilly pilly leaves – why would you want to? LOL.

And, there’s definitely no ‘map of where carrots are grown in Australia’ on my blog…but I’m number 10 on the google search ..what?

By: Robin (Bumblebee)

Robin (Bumblebee) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:33:51 +0000

Hi Patrick,

Very interesting stuff. Thanks for sending this along.

It seems that the searches that land here at BC are more serious information seekers–except for perhaps the beer drinkers.

Like you, I’m finding that looking at the Google searches gives me a good idea of what kind of information people want. When appropriate, I can also add some posts on these topics.

Right now, it seems to be all about Christmas gifts. Too bad my first post on the subject was about the crazy gifts my brother and I exchange. I’m sure that’s not very helpful!

–Robin (Bumblebee)

By: Love Apple Farm

Love Apple Farm — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:44:48 +0000

Gack! I don’t know WHAT’S going to happen now that I have both the words “love” and “grow” quite a bit on my homepage. Perhaps the same sort of pernicious junk mail I get in my email spam folder. I can just see it now…..