The Top-5 Funniest Search Phrases Used to Find this Blog
Search engine optimization can be an obsession for many bloggers. After all, if no one can find your blog, no one will visit your site. But, for this blog, I decided right from the beginning that I would have fun, write articles, and put ZERO effort into search engine optimization. If no one shows up, so be it. If I end up wasting a little bit of my time, big deal, at least I’m not out doing something truly evil like starting a cult or voting republican.
Today marks 31 days since Dead Rooster first went live on January, 1st 2008. According to Statcounter, my first month brought me 676 unique visitors and over 1,000 pageloads:
Of course 265 of those unique visitors came within about a 30-minute time span directly after a nice visitor submitted one of my articles to StumbleUpon (thanks for that!).
What I really love about Statcounter though is that it logs search engine keywords and key-phrases used to find your site.
Most of them seem to make sense, but a few are downright hilarious. Here are what I consider the five funniest:
Michelangelo Pull My Finger. This one came in just last night edging out my previous pick, “Annoying Burnt Toast Song.” The amazing thing is that is it was quickly followed by a similar search by another visitor, “The Creation of Adam Pull My Finger.”
How to Get Rid of Roosters. This was the first search phrase ever used to find this site. At the time, I only had one post entitled Dead Rooster Takes Flight. I was absolutely amazed that my blog was already indexed in a search engine. I’m sure the guy thought he hit the jackpot when he saw DeadRooster.com only to be severely disappointed when he read it.
Legally Sane. It doesn’t surprise me to see this since the description of this blog reads, “Legally-Sane Blogging” but it made me laugh anyway.
Bad Grammar Hurdle. Too bad they didn’t type “Grammar Scumbag” since that would have been a lot funnier and it currently puts Dead Rooster at the top of the first search page.
The Human Furball. I’m not sure I want to know what this person is looking for.
Well, thanks to everyone that visited my blog this month. I sure had fun writing it and hope you enjoyed reading it.
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Milly
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That was educational! *LOL*
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This is Great! So funny! I love this idea!
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You are so, right. I just posted an article about the same topic and searched around to see if I am the only one who is cracking up.
Im2ortal
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I like your attitude here great post
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Great to find a blogger who’s willing to have a laugh and not take things seriously!
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I have to look into Statcounter… I had no idea that you could see the keywords and key-phrases used to find your site.
So crazy what people are searching for…
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Another great post amongst many! Really enjoy your blog — keeps me laughing!
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great post.. very funny
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It just goes to show how wonderful and wacky the interweb is. You can type in some strange phrase like “dead rooster”, and you’ll either learn all about dead roosters, or come here to laugh.
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I think I may know the Human Furball: My Greek uncle Jimmy.
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“Michelangelo Pull My Finger” I know it relates to the Sistine Chapel, but aside from that, what is someone really expecting to find? Is there a viral visual cartoon I’m missing? I’m going to go Google it and see what comes up.
Wow. This site was first.
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Wow, I love the effect of StumbleUpon. Also, I didn’t realize that you could track traffic for specific sources like that. I wish I knew about Statcounter before…
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I guess you might inherit a lot of new readers that are trying to determine if they are legally sane. Or who want to kill roosters.
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I also began a blog just because I wanted to put my thoughts out there. I never considered checking how many readers I might have attracted. I finally caved and tried Statcounter. I was disappointed to learn that, probably besides my parents and wife, nobody really knew I existed in Cyberspace.
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This makes me think that I should start choosing more interesting titles for my blogs, to attract more interesting people…
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This blog is a great example of what word of mouth (and random searches) can do for someone who doesn’t use SEO… good on you!
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Now that you’ve written many posts since this one, you should update this post with other weird search phrases that will put you on the top of the first search page.
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SEO is the very essence of effective internet marketing and traffic generation. It would seem almost pointless to have a site and not want as many visitors as possible. Great post.
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