Search Terms of the Damned
I was talking to my new/old friend, Meredith, about blog traffic because we are both a bit sad. And also because blogging is the new route through academia.
Meredith’s doing some interesting work about women, pregnancy, celebrity and technology, which can be explored here and via her blog. She was talking about writing for audience - using your stats to see what your audience wants to read about (what they search terms they use to find your blog/which entries are most popular), and throwing a couple posts their way to drive up readership.
It’s a fair point… except that most people link to my blog through some permutation of three terms: “dog” “licking” and “vagina”. Today we also have “public grooming” and “douche telecom” amongst the group, but the general trend stands.
While I’m totally down for people reading about Juniper, the only entry to which those search terms can possibly lead, what the hell? My utility in the blogosphere seems to revolve around one entry I wrote over a year ago about the opera and my dog’s newly-spayed vag. Somehow I don’t think the sixteen people that went to that entry yesterday were expecting it to begin with:
Dowdy mom-types and aging lesbians flocked to the opera tonight.
Yet my bounce rate is down, which means that some of my dog vag visitors are sticking around to read up on such important topics as hilarious advice from my mother in 2005 and Washington State’s anti-gay marriage ruling.
Thanks for reading, new people. As for your dog - it may be a UTI.
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October 18th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
i need you to teach me how i can find such stats.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
I think you wrote this post just to drive up readership.
October 19th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
And to that I say, one of yesterday’s searches was “completely unnecessary interrupting cow.”
Today’s top search thusfar? “nympho quizzes” - I want to write every post about what my top searches are.
Until proved otherwise, Andrew, I will assume you called me an ‘interrupting cow’.