I'm just going over my blog stats from July and, as always, read the search engine results with great interest. My stats, you see, list the various words or phrases which people plugged into a search engine that then brought them to my site.
What astounds me is the number of people searching for "www.incorrigiblenightowl.com". Okay....correct me if I'm missing something blatantly obvious, but if you know the entire URL of the site, why do you need to Google it? Couldn't you just plug the URL into your browser and come straight here? I keep thinking it must have something to do with cookies or trackbacks or spam or something. I had 23 searches for my URL last month. Surely there can't be that many people who just do not get the concept.
Another confusing thing is that one of the searched phrases was "may i just take a moment to say how much i adore the band on the run album? thanks. i feel better now." This is a post from my Beatleblog, in its entirety, and verbatim, at that. Now, I sincerely doubt that someone read the post and remembered it, word-for-word, when they couldn't even remember where they'd seen it. And it's too random a collection of words for someone to have matched accidentally. So what gives, there? More spam activity, perhaps?
My favorite search string for last month, though, has to be "breast suction in s&m". Um...wow. I am racking my brain trying to figure out which combination of my posts yielded a match on that one. One thing I can guarantee is that those three words definitely did not appear together when I posted them!
I just checked my June stats for the first time. Do you know what the top search string was to bring people here?
Linus Van Pig.
What, in the name of Sam Donaldson's undershorts, would possibly cause someone to do a search for that name? Who would even think of that? It is not a common pet name; it's not like Spot or Rover or Blackie. It's not the name of some celebrity or politician or fictional character. It's something I made up when Linus joined our family just before Peanuts ended. Since he is a guinea pig I tweaked the name Linus Van Pelt to get Linus Van Pig. Am I missing something, here? Is there another Linus Van Pig out there of whom I am not aware?
Weird. Just plain weird.
My favorite search string that has brought someone to this blog in the past month?
"how to make a bottle into a crackpipe"
Golly, I'm sorry I couldn't help them out more.
(This entry is the reason I turned up on that search.)