(Lucy the Elephant, rear view. Margate, NJ. September 2008.)
The Stevo over at Asian Ramblings recently posted about his Wonderful Search Terms. I could use a little distraction these days so I thought I’d have a look at mine, especially after Ybonesy from redRavine asked about the search engine terms that involve feet. I think Amuirin at Stop & Wander does it best, at least in terms of making me laugh with not only the weird terms that bring folks to her blog, but her responses to them.
It seems I am not the unofficial queen of foot fetishists. “Red-beet eggs” (and varieties such as “beet eggs,” “how to make red beet eggs,” “red eggs,” “PA Dutch red beet eggs,” and more — it’s surprising how many ways you can search for a recipe) are my kingdom when it comes to search engine terms that bring people to my blog. My all-time highest is “Bountiful Healing” (972) but I’m not counting it because the people who are using that are people who know me in my so-called real life and it appears their memory or their ability to use bookmarks is almost as poor as mine. (Is that you, Mary, doing all those searches?)
I was hoping to imitate The Stevo with the good, the bad, and the ugly, but honestly, they’re all pretty mediocre.
Involving feet:
- Tickling my feet
- My feet
- Rate my feet
- My feet are ticklish
- Pretty feet (thank you!)
- Ticklish feet
- My husband likes my feet
- My husband likes to tickle my feet
- Delicate things, delicate feet
- “female feet” – porn – footjob (It’s possible that the flower and veggie porn are more responsible than the feet for people ending up here using those search terms.)
Other popular BH search engine terms that bring people here to have a look-see:
- Purple bird (I don’t know why this suddenly became such a popular thing to search for, but 138 searches have gone on for this over the past two weeks.)
- Green bird (Because a purple bird, no matter how awful and blurry the photo, is just not enough.)
- 70 people have searched for summer scenes
- Approximately 100 people are looking for salt water cures in a variety of ways (Just cry. It’ll do you good.)
- Was the moon out last night? (Unless it was a new moon, probably.)
- Waves at the Jersey shore (The Jersey shore waves back.)
- My internal thermostat is always hot
- Woman in sea shore
My other blog gets more interesting search engine terms. I suspect that’s because I’m not always as nice over there. My snarky side occasionally comes out in Life in the Bogs.
- how to freeze brocolli without blaching (I wouldn’t blach either. Better to blanch because otherwise you’ll end up with some yucky stuff.)
- freezing broclli (you’d be amazed at how many people don’t know how to spell broccoli, also seen in the terms above)
- does anyone know the 1800 number to call (Yes, I do. And THIS is what brings in most of my traffic on Life in the Bogs.) Variations of this include “Wal-Mart sick number.”
- laundry photos, Amish laundry photos, or some variation thereof
- how do people end up in bogs (Their husbands move them there.)
- peck hungarian wax weight
- peter piper
- simpsons clouds
- not a significant source of protein
- having dreams of smoking (yeah, me too)
- amish people flying (Wow…I never noticed…do they have wings?)
- sarcasm exercises (Sign up here for classes.)
- Mormons (my nemesis!! nemesii??)
- And the ever popular: Exploding soda cans (it appears to be one of the all-time favorite post at Life in the Bogs).
Since I mentioned top posts, here are the all time top 5 posts from BH:
- Red-beet eggs and other things (3,207)
- My feet (1,427)
- Purple craze (765)
- Think pink (421)
- Salt water cure (411)
At Life in the Bogs, the top 5 are:
- 1-800-I’M-SICK (3,054)
- Sick day (917)
- Exploding soda cans: An exercise in sarcasm (795)
- Because you searched for it: The Century Plant (748)
- Because you searched for it: Amish laundry day photos (622)
So, it seems, I am not the unofficial queen of foot fetishists. Perhaps I’ll have to work on that.
It’ll be interesting to see how elephant’s butt plays out in the search engine terms.
Yeah, the elephant’s butt search term should be big. We still get lots of orangutan butts over on red Ravine.
These are funny, Robin. I’m sorry to hear you’re not yet the foot fetish queen. Must work harder at that.
“Purple bird”??? What’s up with that? I’m always wondering the same thing when one particular search term hits paydirt for about a week or two. Why suddenly. I mean, I can understand how the Halloweenish or Octoberish search terms come up this time of year (as they are on our blog), but it’s those ones that have no rhyme or reason that boggle the mind.
LOL! I think orangutan butts sound funnier than elephant’s butt.
I don’t understand the purple bird phenomenon at all. I could understand the “green bird” because it closely followed the purple bird and there’s some sort of sense to that. But I have no idea what started the purple bird business.
Great terms, Queen Robin.
I’ll have to check the stats on my popular foot article. I noticed a bunch of email referrals in my stats log. I think the foot fetish guys emailed the link around the world.
I kept getting hits for “gracious plenty,” a post I wrote bout a tea party with my granddaughters. I was stymied until I did a search and found some (I don’t remember ) famous singer has an album or song by that name. Purple Rain? Purple Bird? Who knows?
I found your search terms interesting. We could never come up to the level of Amuirin. She just attracts them. LOL
The title and picture just cracked me up. Amish people flying is an interesting idea, too.
I’m glad the purple post gets so many hits. That was one of my favorites.
These are great, Robin. It’s always a wonder what people search for – though I’m thinking I must have the most family rated blog in the world. My biggies are the oscar meyer weinermobile and snapping turtles. Wow-weeee!
Thanks for the giggle this morning, Robin.
I fear most of my hits have to do with feeling like shit, how to shave a Maine Coon cat, and tons of hits from Tibetan Buddhists who enjoy arguing with one another, prompted by my post Dirty Laundry (that post is close to 6 months old, has over 500 hits and it just keeps growing!). Occasionally I’ll get some doozies, and I always promise I’ll make note of them somewhere, but it never happens. Thank goodness for you and Am to keep us amused.