I like to keep tabs with how the site is doing in terms of traffic; not just the volume of our traffic, but where it’s coming from. As we try to grow the site, it seems important to know this. If you’ve never been behind the curtains of a WordPress site, it has all kinds of interesting data such as what sites have linked to us and where we get most of our readers from. (The Dish and Ballon Juice, if you’re interested.) It also shows what words or phrases people googled that led them here. It’s like reading tealeaves, though, and I’m often at a loss when trying to discern stable patterns of what creates buzz and what doesn’t. But I really have no freaking idea what in our archives triggered The League when multiple people googled the following phrase:
Kelly Rich Big Boobs
And not just one person. Six people, somewhere in the world, decided this morning that they really wanted to find out more about Kelly Rich Big Boobs, and they came to the League in order to scratch that itch.
As to why people were googling this phrase, and why it sent them here, I have no fishing idea. But the inner marketing guy in me is dying to know: did they leave satisfied with the answers we provided them?
Clearly these people are looking for important content that no one else is able to provide them.
My question: Is someone prepping a post on the topic as we speak? Don’t want to let our audience down. If they come, we must write it.Report
I was actually thinking of having a contest for readers to tell us which post they believe triggered the google hit, and why.Report
You clearly have too much time on your hands, Tod. Go outside!Report
My favorite searches on Journeys in Alterity this past week:
“i can’t sympathize with women”
“homosexuality, morality, ethics, and natural law in women`s sports”
“bishops agains penicillin”
“is obama possessed of a devil”Report
As she mentioned recently, Rose and I find it a source of constant amusement to send each other text messages with our favorite search terms of the day.Report
miami heat
skyrim
finn carter walking dead
greetings and salutations
arturo trejo
Those are the big 5 for Mindless Diversions.
4 of those, of course, are hits for the writings of my co-bloggers.Report
Not A Potted Plant is pretty dull: “i hate wyoming” is about as spicy as it gets right now. “Monday trivia” seems to be pretty well branded, though; that is routinely a high-ranked search term.Report
There appears to be quite a market for “Hunger Games”-theme porn, judging by how frequently people end up at Blinded Trials looking for it. (Enterprising filmmakers, make of this what you will.)
I can only imagine how very, very disappointed they must be when they get to our blog.Report
Eww.
That is all.Report
I have a few non-male friends that have mentioned reading an erotic romance book. Apparently, it started out as internet “fan fiction” using characters from the Twighlight books.
I am told it is the number one selling book on Amazon these days.Report
Might I suggest a way that everyone could enjoy it?
I mock, because I can. But the truth is, I’ve been pleased that Mrs. Likko chose to read this particular book. IfyouknowwhatImsayin.Report
Yes, my girlfriend’s husband’s are *very* happy.Report
“homosexuality, morality, ethics, and natural law in women`s sports”
Looks like somebody had a paper to write.Report
Here’s how it happens: Google looks for all four keywords. They don’t only scan the posts though. They also scan the comments. As long as all four words come up somewhere on the page, it’s a hit. I tried googling ‘Kelly Rich Big Boobs+league of ordinary gentlemen’ and this is the post that got the hit:
https://ordinary-times.com/blog/2012/05/02/advertising-and-manipulation/
If you scan the page you will find the following:
Tod Kelly
“…after the jocks and the rich men’s sons”
“…when I see a logo stretched out over some big boobs”
Now why someone would click on the link is weird but people do a lot of random things when web surfing.Report
Were it not specifically a search on this site, my first assumption would’ve been that the person was seeking the pictures and/or video a large-breasted lady named Kelly Rich had made available for viewing pleasure. But that doesn’t make sense in context of the site search.Report
Which, incidentally, is where most of those weird “this blog is excellent, I am adding it to my list of readings about BEST FISH WAXING SERVICE today and look forward to more post!!!!!” comments come from. The point is to get BEST FISH WAXING SERVICE into Google a lot, so that the URL posted with the comment gets ranked highly in searches for BEST FISH WAXING SERVICE.
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Well, knowing that your boobs are both big and rich, I know who I’ll be ogling in Vegas soon.Report
I can’t actually click on ANY of the links since I’m still at work, but it appears that Kelly Rich is the sister of someone named Tessa Rich and apparently they have been showing their big boobs together, presumably in some pornos (many of the hits are coming from porn tube sites).Report
We should all just resurrect the use of the term “boob” to denote “a foolish person.” Instant Google win.Report