Written on July 15th, 2007 at 07:07 am by Darren Rowse
Which Search Terms Bring You Traffic?
So I told you the search term that brings ProBlogger the most traffic from Google….
What search term brings you more traffic than any other term?
Check out your stats and see what’s bringing in the most visitors for you and tell us in comments below.
Bonus Question - What’s the funniest search term that brings you traffic?
99 Responses to “Which Search Terms Bring You Traffic?”
Joanna Young
July 15th, 2007 7:34 am
I went through a similar exercise earlier in the week in relation to your earlier post.
My funniest, or rather my most endearing search term was this:
“writing is easy hit your forehead”
It just made me wonder what state the person was in who typed it into their keyboard :)
Joanna
Angling
July 15th, 2007 7:40 am
Kayak fishing - simple and low traffic, but thats it and its helping me in my world of fishing web sites.
Can I also take this chance just to say a deep heart felt thanks to your Darren for all your information. I do think some of your thoughts are crap, but a huge “vast majority” are truly great - nice one!! (your a clever bloke)
Dollar Short
July 15th, 2007 7:42 am
My blog is about economics and finance but, because I made a joke about Britney’s exposed vulva a long time ago, I have had people looking for “Britney’s exposed vulva” and “exposed vulva pictures”
Truly bizarre
Tim from bla.st
July 15th, 2007 7:54 am
The number 2 search term for my site is “youtute” which a user mis-spelt once.
Angela
July 15th, 2007 7:55 am
LOL Joanna!
My top keyword is ‘virtual assistant’ which is exactly what I’ve been targeting so that’s good to know. it accounts for about 17% of searches.
Also I’ve been getting a lot of variations on ‘timothy ferris’ or ‘the 4-hour work week’ as I did make one post on that.
My favorite search term is ‘pomegrantie martini’s’ as I once made a post saying I had a girls night and we had those, lol.
Angela Wills
http://www.StarVA.com
Rich Minx
July 15th, 2007 8:00 am
My top search term for RichMinx.com in the past three months has been ‘Win an iPhone” from a comp I linked to a few weeks ago. I was on page one of Google for a bit. (Sorry Darren, I know you’re sick of the topic!)
The silliest: how to choose, there are so many. Maybe ‘tips to win future rich wife’.
Patrick Altoft
July 15th, 2007 8:04 am
I’ve been ranking well (mostly number 1 until today) for “John Chow” which sends about 20 uniques per day.
Robert Bruce
July 15th, 2007 8:08 am
“Pen Gun”
Mike Goad
July 15th, 2007 8:32 am
1st - class c motor homes
2nd - fifth wheel campers
3rd - 5th wheel campers
4th - motorcycle tent trailer
5th - motorcycle tent trailers
Interesting. I had not looked at this for a while. The blog is connected to an outdoors website, no sales, just good content and good links. It gives me some ideas on where I need to work on my site!
Lindsey
July 15th, 2007 8:34 am
My top three incoming searches from google are “free blog templates”, “free blogger templates” and “free blog template”.
Sue
July 15th, 2007 8:36 am
Well, for my haunted lighthouses website, it’s “haunted lighthouses” that brings in the most traffic. Although not once but two times someone plugged “4000 ghosts” into Google and found me!?!?!?
Lyman Reed
July 15th, 2007 8:36 am
Over the past 30 days, the top spot is tied between “Simpleology” (a goal setting program) and “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” (a personal development book). Makes a lot of sense, since I write about both quite a bit.
The search term “satanism” + “better life” was an interesting one… :).
engtech @ internet duct tape
July 15th, 2007 8:39 am
One of the best tips I’ve seen for search engines is doing a monthly report of the terms that find you that link to the specific resources on that subject. It’s self-reinforcing what they look for.
I do well on romantic movies, bypassing gmail filters at work, lolcats, facebook, disabling filterkeys, ie7 uninstall, syncing google calendar/last.fm/ipod/etc.
Needless to say I have a lack of focus with my search term results and what I usually write about. :)
Melissa
July 15th, 2007 8:40 am
spiderman & superman are two of the funniest terms that bring me traffic- more than you would guess…
Dave Ward
July 15th, 2007 8:43 am
Just about 2-3 word combination of AJAX, progress, indicator, and/or CSS brings me the bulk of my search traffic.
Variations of “Highslide” round out most of the remaining hits.
I used to get a lot for “disable button control”, but that post went supplemental and I haven’t yet been able to get it out.
Christy Hammond
July 15th, 2007 8:48 am
The ones I laugh at are the “insert hockey player’s name + girlfriend” searches. I have a Detroit Red Wings blog and don’t really touch on any of the players’ personal lives whatsoever, yet my blog pops up almost daily for a search with a hockey player’s name and the word girlfriend.
Jason
July 15th, 2007 8:50 am
Hmm…
“How can I get my teacher to like me?”
Someone had written a news story about a teacher who got busted for having sex with a student on one of my community blogs. Ha!
Today is that Day
July 15th, 2007 8:52 am
I actually just put up a post about some of the recent funny search terms that had brought people to my site. My personal favorite was “shut up you lazy bastard”. ;)
One bonus to this exercise (in addition to the laughs) is that many bloggers realize that all it takes is ONE POST about a certain keyword combination to secure loads of future traffic.
- Aaron
Andrew G.R.
July 15th, 2007 8:54 am
This is an absolutely BRILLIANT post! Nothing like getting some dope keywords in your comment section! Recently referencing Miss New Jersey brought in a lot of traffic. However, given that we’re a career blog, we probably won’t hold on to too many…
Matthew K. Tabor
July 15th, 2007 8:56 am
My site is almost entirely about education issues and college admissions.
The most bizarre search term that I see more than I’d like? Someone searching a variant of “teacher student pedophile,” and I have absolutely no idea why it leads to my site. I’ve never written about teacher/student sex scandals.
Weird.
hezron
July 15th, 2007 8:57 am
My top search engine keywords are:
1. Run command
2. Hidden program in xp
3. Smartbro
4. Install ie7 without wga
5. Bypass Windows XP validation
6. Hidden password generator
And lots more!!!. Everyday, there are new keywords that google brings me visitors.
Louis Gray
July 15th, 2007 8:59 am
My top search terms are very much skewed away from the core content of the site. From the last 4,000 visitors (SiteMeter-powered), I see:
1. soft sex
2. watch Simpsons online
3. watch Simpsons online free
4. best TV shows 2007
5. watch the Simpsons onliine
6. Yi Jianlian Kings
7. ihome
8. crotch
9. best tv show 2007
10. yi jianlian Sacramento
Source: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15lgraycom&r=51
Jamie Harrop
July 15th, 2007 9:11 am
I get a lot of visitors from people looking for tips to receive better feedback from their customers. I rank 1st for “customer feedback tips”, so I get a lot from that.
The funniest search term has to be one from today… “horse suck video”. Trust me, I have no horse sucking videos on my site. I just happen to have a post titled “I suck and I love it!” (referencing my love for negative feedback) and I also happen to video blog. Where the horse comes in to it, I don’t know. :D
Tara @ Tangible
July 15th, 2007 9:12 am
I have a geektastic tech blog, and my 5 of my top 6 search terms are variations on “XAMPP Apache won’t start” from a quick post I tossed up there after I’d had a problem running Apache on my laptop.
I get a few dozen uniques a week from it.
My favorite search term is “Solar Death Ray”. I posted once about someone’s rather successful attempt at making a solar death ray that could melt plastic toys and marshmallows. That one comes up a few times a week.
j
July 15th, 2007 9:19 am
cisco adler’s balls
No kidding… I searched google & we’re not even in the top 100, so I don’t know how they find us.
Mindanao Bob
July 15th, 2007 9:24 am
My number one search term is “Mindanao”
For several months, I was getting significant traffic for the search “151″ although I have no idea why!
Christian
July 15th, 2007 10:26 am
My keyword ranking are:
1) i am bored
2) iambored
3) iphone smash - (the the hype was all about iphone)
I have 1 recent search string “i am bored and scared” and I really don’t know what’s that all about!!
Phi Nguyen
July 15th, 2007 10:31 am
My #1 keyword has remained the same for about 3 months.
“N800 Review”
Most of the visitors come from Google and maybe 10% from other SEs.
Kishore Duddekunta
July 15th, 2007 10:34 am
Well My top traffic are
1) vlc player
2) vlc player vista
3) hj splitter
4) pinecone research
5) watch tv online
noemi
July 15th, 2007 10:57 am
keyword “sex” from the google image search. It actually points to an image called sex_education.jpg which I used for my sex education entry. Funny how google points them to a wholesome article. hehe
Chris
July 15th, 2007 11:15 am
Some common incoming terms:
“bathroom divas”
“collaborative piano”
“piano blog”
“piano blogs”
and inexplicably, a noticeable number in the last few days for “t”, as in the letter t.
Perhaps I should be working on optimizing my site for more letters than just “t”, which represents only 1/26th of possible single-letter searches.
antonio
July 15th, 2007 11:22 am
1. Leo Messi
2. 600 000 euros
3. Paul Potts
4. salto
Not much more
Jason
July 15th, 2007 11:28 am
http://iamboredr.com/… Clever URL Christian. I know I’ve typed in “i am bored” on more than a few occasions. Here’s one for you “bored blogger.” iamboredst.com.
Desty
July 15th, 2007 11:39 am
The word “Desty” is double the closest keyword as far as incomming traffic is concerned.
The next five are
Prosense Theme
Blog Mastermind
Paid to blog guides
Paid to blog pay, - “no pay”
“blog mastermind” review
Karen (misc mum)
July 15th, 2007 11:46 am
Eating disorders
Books you must read before you die (or variations of that statement)
“Yummy Mummy” (I’m flattered!)
And a certain male appendage (not proud of that one….)
HH!
July 15th, 2007 11:47 am
Two weeks old blog and yet not even just one visit from google or yahoo…hmmm :-(
J.D.
July 15th, 2007 12:01 pm
My number 1 search term as of yesterday seems to be Terapon Adhahn - the 42-year-old immigrant from Thailand that abducted the 12-year-old girl on July 4th.
I wrote an article on him on the morning of the 13th, very early. I was one of three google reponses that came up if you searched for his name. The other two sites were just your standard local news sites.
His name hit google’s hot trends for a few hours, getting up into like the upper 20’s I believe. I got TONS of traffic from the search engines.
Over the long run, the next best keyword is Jasmine Richardson, the 12-year-old girl who helped Steinke kill her mom, dad, and 8-year-old brother. I’ve gotten a ton of hits from her name as well.
RT
July 15th, 2007 12:01 pm
# 1 - women’s arm toning
funniest - fat butt
alam
July 15th, 2007 12:02 pm
according to my GA and wordpress stats :
harry potter 7, Voldemort killed Hermione?
download slackware 12 iso
asus eee
cisco lab topology
installing freebsd video
serial number office 2007
dynamips and dynagen
microsoft loopback adapter
but seem traffic for harry potter generate by an MFA site, with different link it link to my blog.
Mahala
July 15th, 2007 12:04 pm
I get an unreal number of hits from people looking for information on “Dog the Bounty Hunter” which I wrote about once. Oh and “dirty boys” from a post I wrote about Mike Rowe, host of “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery channel which had “Dirty Boys” in the title. Somehow I don’t think the searchers are getting the information they were looking for :)
Jonathan Franzone
July 15th, 2007 12:12 pm
Funniest search term that still brings me traffic is “cow patti”. I did a music post one time on a song by that name and it’s amazing and funny how many people search for cow patti and end up on my blog.
Kayla
July 15th, 2007 12:16 pm
My Top Search Terms:
Totally Rad Actions
Digital Scrapbooking
Photoshop Actions
My most interesting search term was “Maya and Miguel” - pretty boring… I happened to mention in an old post that I am grateful for my second monitor because my toddler son often wants to sit on my lap while I am blogging and so I blog and he watches Maya and Miguel on the second monitor…
The person commented about it and told me they wanted to send me a DVD of Maya and Miguel - my first thought was that they know I have a toddler and now they want my address - not a good thing. That experience has really stopped me from talking about my family - which is sometimes difficult because my blog is about scrapbooking and most of what I scrapbook is my family. I would really like to see you talk about privacy issues and blogging - blogging etiquette with regards to what is the safest way to protect your family and blog. That would be cool.
Big Fez
July 15th, 2007 12:26 pm
“Ratatouille recipe” and “Chris Benoit dead” are my top search terms.
The most interesting was “Megan Fox feet”.
James Mitchell
July 15th, 2007 12:27 pm
So far for July the most common search phrase for me is: “Working with Friends”.
And the funniest one this month is: “how much do you have to pay for a prostitute”. Which knocked me out of my chair when I saw it. I wrote an article about how much to charge for your web design services and quoted a friend of mine who said “don’t prostitute your talent or abilities.”
Hillarious! I love looking at keywords and phrases people type. Great post idea.
natalie
July 15th, 2007 12:33 pm
hands down, “salad mobile” gets me more traffic than anything else.
CutieGadget
July 15th, 2007 12:52 pm
Don’t get many search Traffic, I guess My SEO is just a rookie… But My top 1 Search is From “Baketan Ghost Radar” It’s gadget to detect Ghost,, I also get many links from That Post :)
Rachel
July 15th, 2007 12:52 pm
“Best cities for allergy sufferers” is currently my #1.
The strangest? “Husband allergic to wife’s fluid”.
Ken Y-N
July 15th, 2007 12:58 pm
My top search phrase, which has been top for the last year or more, is the name of a pr0n star that I accidentally embedded into a headline just round about the day she first appeared on the scene! Sadly, I’m too principled to exploit it via some adult affiliate scheme.
My third is another pr0n word in English but is a perfectly acceptable word in Japanese cuisine, which I freely admit to link baiting on.
Talking of pr0n searches, once every other day or so I get people looking for “nuked japanese women”, although I have pictures of neither the phrase nor the spelling-corrected version.
My favourite one-off phrase was “does the queen fart?”
Bobby
July 15th, 2007 1:03 pm
LOL…this one just came in:
“stove pipe gathered pants 2007″
WTF?!!
I run a daily humor blog, but I don’t see how that got someone to me. Crazy.
Leslie
July 15th, 2007 1:37 pm
Common search term for my personal blog: “depression in academia”
Common search term for my museum blog: “museums and Second Life”
Strangest search term that I remember: “Caleb McDaniel’s man boobs”
I also get a lot of people looking for news (or photos–ewww!) of “the Clutter murders,” since my personal blog is called “The Clutter Museum.” (Sickos.)
Casey
July 15th, 2007 1:54 pm
It’s weird. My blog is about making money, yet most of my search traffic is “greendimes coupon code”. I wrote about Greendimes a long time ago, for the occasion of Earth Day.
Deb
July 15th, 2007 2:07 pm
With “cottage” in my blog title I tend to get lots of people looking for rehab information like paint cottages, cottage planking, cottage porches, etc. Next are variations on cottage and poem, with somebody (always the same ISP) down under regularly looking for “corn and squirrel poem.”
The most unusual, maybe it’s funny, is “unused utensil,” I have no idea what’s up with that.
Gdog - The Daily Kimchi
July 15th, 2007 2:22 pm
Right now, “daily kimchi” is the search term that brings me the most traffic. It seems like people are now using Google as a bookmark, instead of typing in the address to my blog!
Followed by that, it’s “Korean fashion” and “Red Mango frozen yogurt”.
The weirdest search term I’ve encountered are “can you get worms eating raw noodles” ;)
Adam Pieniazek
July 15th, 2007 3:02 pm
My top traffic generators are:
“ronald jenkees”
“us GAAP vs IFRS”
“finite population correction factor”
Now onto the strange searches:
“robots will do your job”
They will? Awesome!
“picture of the world showing me where iraq is”
Hope that didn’t come from the US…
“can i write essays on mac book pro”
I don’t think he/she quite understands computers…
“purses of dog footprints”
Your guess is as good as mine…
“like a rusty steak knife cutting through a well aged steak”
this goes with my top traffic generator
“bush hell poland”
This one’s not that strange, considering I wrote a post about Bush visiting Hell, Poland.
David Culpepper
July 15th, 2007 3:53 pm
I get the most traffic for “ipod contest” from a contest that I ran 2 months ago. I’m a little surprised by that since we have fallen to page 2 on the search results.
I guess the funniest would be “wanted girls” from an article on female bloggers. Actually rank #11 for that one…
J-Ro
July 15th, 2007 3:57 pm
My top keyword is my blogs name, the seminal. I guess this is good, right? People are actually searching for my brand name. I get a ton of long tail keywords, but I’m actually surprised to see my #4 search term this month (with 18 hits) is “egyptian sex.” As a political blog, I’ve never written about egyptian sex, but I did include the words “Egypt” and “sex” in one of my link post titles, so that’s how I ended up there. Way odd.
Grace
July 15th, 2007 4:27 pm
For some reason, this month, it’s “Buy Me a Beer”, from the post I’ve written about my plug-in.
Izzy
July 15th, 2007 5:11 pm
I get a LOT of people searching for “smelly balls” and “ball gag” which are probably the funniest ones but the absolute weird-funniest is a search I get repeatedly for “exploded babysitter” which I’m certain I’ve never written about.
TVs Worst Adverts
July 15th, 2007 5:36 pm
My top search term is:
“Bom Chicka Wah Wah”
Oh, I feel so dirty. So very dirty.
Mark Brownlow
July 15th, 2007 6:09 pm
This month eight people found my very niche marketing blog using the search term…
naked cleopatra
Not targeted traffic, but I’ll take it.
Rob O.
July 15th, 2007 8:22 pm
“Dolphin olympics” is the keyword driving in the most traffic to 2Dolphins — and by no small margin. Of the hits on that keyword phrase, more than 97% come from Google searches.
Odd thing is that this comes from a brief (2 sentences!) post I did over 5 months ago (called Dolphin Olympics) about a silly (but fun!) little Flash-based online game. I’ve only referenced this game once and have never deep-linked back to my original blog post.
Sam
July 15th, 2007 8:47 pm
Hey everyone! This is a trick!
By posting your top search terms here, Google will suddenly point to Darren’s blog for that search term instead of yours. ;)
Have a nice weekend :)
Steve's Tech Blog
July 15th, 2007 9:18 pm
Popular: “zune art”
I also got from my own URL “stevesblogen.i2mfan.com/” with the same number of search.
The funniest: ” does hollywood videos take checks”
I’m about tech and never posted about “Hollywood videos”.
I don’t have many because I got Google Analytics for a few months under in own id.
ChristinaG
July 15th, 2007 9:31 pm
My top five:
- “whiney expat blogger in germany”
- my name
- another variation on my name
- “american expat in germany”
- “an american expat in deutschland”
Except for the whiney part (I’m not THAT whiney), I’d say that’s pretty good.
Caitlin
July 15th, 2007 11:05 pm
The number one search term for finding my website is my name or a variation on my name and profession.
I get consistent hits every June for ’strawberries and cream at wimbledon’.
The funniest one at the moment is ‘queen being lazy in medieval times’.
Samir
July 15th, 2007 11:37 pm
My site is very much in English, but my most popular search hits are for Portuguese terms! I have a machine translation plugin installed.
Trabalhos comtexturas and movimento uniforme are on top of the heap.
I do get some traffic for more normal terms though. These include:
“cyberpunk”
“how to crash a wedding”
“taking professional pictures”
“best action movie”
redwall_hp
July 16th, 2007 12:47 am
On Webmaster-Source, my top keywords would be
1. wordpress vs movable type
2. freeweblayout
3. harry potter invisionfree skins
4. wordpress install dummies
5. webmaster source
6. webzine wordpress themes
7. apples layouts
8. wordpress vs
9. movable type 4 vs wordpress
10. wordpress vs movabletype
All the “wordpress vs movable type” variations are due to an article I wrote comparing the two. Of course, some people bashed it as “already done before” and “a lame attempt to get dugg”. Yeah right, I just wanted to compare them in my own words.
“Wordpress install dummies”, is either someone looking for a tutorial on installing and setting up wordpress, or someone looking for animate crash dummies that can install wordpress. Hopefully the first option, since I don’t have the latter.
“webzine wordpress themes” is probably there because I reviewed the GridLock theme for Wordpress.
“apples layouts” has pulled-in a bit of traffic in the past. I wrote a post analyzing Apple.com’s new layout. Since I did it the day their changes went live, it soon became one of the more popular posts on my blog.
Robert Irizarry
July 16th, 2007 12:52 am
I blog about guitar making, ergonomics and guitar design so my top three search terms make complete sense:
1. headless guitar
2. guitar building
3. ergonomic guitar
Then, of course, there’s the oddest search term for which I’ve seen traffic and for which I’m ranked in the top ten - “forearm building”! All around my guitar blog are sites about developing your forearms!
Cindy Sue Causey
July 16th, 2007 1:20 am
Hadn’t gone so far as to put demographics on my blog *just* yet.. On my website, it was the names of fellow disability advocates I highlighted in calendar blurbs I was doing.. Had no problem imagining things were very similar now on the blog.. “Butterfly” is as close as I can get to funny.. :P
Any suggestions of (not too) invasive favorites that give this kind of info on blogs hosted other than on one’s own website..?
The setup is that just two days ago took the plunge with a new webhosting provider.. Having been burned so badly back in March by another, it will be a while before I “trust” enough to go through moving my favorite blog over to this new one where it looks like traffic info will be available.. But, in the meantime…… ;)
RobbD3
July 16th, 2007 1:28 am
This may be a bit off topic but does anyone know how to create a landing page specific to search term? My most popular search term brings in thousands of visitors per week and I would like to create a specific landing page just for them.
At Home Mom
July 16th, 2007 2:53 am
I am not yet getting much traffic from search engines, but my top searches are:
“strange ways to earn money from home” which comes from a post I wrote on weird ways to earn.
“minioffice for kids”
“mom blog design”
and surprisingly “home jobs for moms site athomemomblog.com” I´m not sure why they would do the search if they already know the URL!
My funniest search terms include “blood experiments you can do at home”, “blog energy mom” (I can relate to that one!) and “illegal ways to earn fast cash”.
Creditwrench
July 16th, 2007 3:13 am
Most of my visitors to http://www.creditwrench.com and http://www.themostwantedcriminals.com are people looking for debt collectors so they can pay them or find out who has been bugging them on the phone or quite often because they falsely believe that paying the debt collector to clean up their credit reports.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth because paying off a debt collector will only hurt your credit rather than cleaning it up.
People need to learn how creditwrench students clean up their debt and credit reporting problems.
Mary (MPJ)
July 16th, 2007 3:26 am
I blog about my marriage and my children. My husband is a sex addict in recovery, so nearly all of the searches that come to my site are for porn. (I actually did my ProBlogger Top 5 contest post about this — my blog was new at the time, so I have more data now and need to post again.) They’re all more disturbing than funny, even though they are inaccurate. I get a lot of searches these days for “mama sex with son” or “mama sex with daughter.” But the non-porn search that disturbed me most was “pictures of interracial couples being lynched.” Creepy.
Michael Hampton
July 16th, 2007 3:36 am
The term which brought me the most traffic was ed and elaine brown and variants thereof.
Some of the funnier ones I’ve gotten lately are weed for sale, bad cop no donut, and security camera sex.
Better Blogging with Michael Martine
July 16th, 2007 4:07 am
I once wrote a blog post about how artists and craftspeople could really benefit from blogging, by drawing their blog visitors into the story of their artwork being created. As an example, I showcased a dollmaker’s blog. To this day, I get a lot of search traffic for the word dollmaker.
Henk ter Heide
July 16th, 2007 4:58 am
Combinations with the word “drawing” bring the most traffic which is a good thing since my site is about drawing. With some combinations I’ve reach the first page at Google. And that in a little more then two months.
Joe
July 16th, 2007 5:17 am
stuff exploding
“stop global cooling”
how to get poor
seductive poses for larger women
funny died in the traffic
funny catastrophic events
abercrombie uses a real moose head
funny picture of tree being cut down
pimp prostitution
how stuff work speargun
kill the manatee
how to be filthy stinking poor
wal mart colonoscopy
Ashish Mohta
July 16th, 2007 6:04 am
The keyword which brings me max traffic is download directx10 and funniest is best porn , lol I wrote a post on best porn blockers :D
I might be late for this darren but i just got back from my marriage and honeymoon and was reading all your pending posts
Jimson Lee
July 16th, 2007 6:18 am
My blog is called http://speedendurance.com/ and the top 4 search results are:
1. speed endurance (two words)
2. wake up when not in the rem cycle
3. speedendurance
4. speedendurance.com
#2 is funny because 1 wrote one article on sleep and rem cycles for athletes.
Mommy Zabs
July 16th, 2007 7:10 am
These terms and different combinations of these words have been driving traffic for me for a couple months now.
mommy abc atheist debate kirk cameron ray comfort
Some interesting ones:
wife 101
mother in law obsession with grandchild
i got a buildabear my name is tamara
how to get busted for child porn
chatroom for pedophils- (scary thing is this one didn’t bounce)
biggest human’s mommy
Darren Rowse
July 16th, 2007 8:16 am
Sam - I highly doubt I’ll be getting traffic for everyone’s search terms because there’s no keyword density on the page, the words are not in my title and the words are not in the URL. Very unlikely.
Sebbi
July 16th, 2007 8:24 am
I have two posts which receive nearly all traffic on my blog. The first one:
http://www.sebbi.de/archives/2007/05/13/youporn-und-pornotube/
For the searchterm “youporn” which is banned on the german version of Google … so blogs are ranked very high for that term here.
The second one:
http://www.sebbi.de/archives/2004/06/06/nackte-tatsachen/
For the searchterm “nackte frauen” (naked women) in Googles Imagesearch. The post is harmless, but apparently contains the words and somehow ranks very high for that combination.
That said … I am NOT a porn blogger (my blog is a normal personal one), but looking at the searchterms that drive traffic to my site one would definetly get that impression ;-)
maria luisa
July 16th, 2007 11:57 am
I write in Spanish, and about food.
Pie de Limón is the same as “lemon pie”, everybody seems to like the word. Or the pie?
LintCollector
July 16th, 2007 4:18 pm
1) navel
2) belly button
3) fluff
4) belly button lint
- Most common, not surprising as my main traffic generator is my collection of navel lint (I’m the world record holder).
12) bra hanging
- My favourite, probably from a blog post I wrote on the Cardrona Bra Fence, a fence in NZ which has hundreds of bras hanging on it.
16) largest person in the world
- I don’t get this, I’ve never written anyting related to it.
Protestant
July 16th, 2007 11:55 pm
The search term bringing me the most hits is: “stacy dash”.
The funniest search term is: “elke the stallion”
Jim Walton
July 17th, 2007 12:19 am
I wrote a post about typing in your name and needs into google in quotes and seeing what it is that you need. This was 2 years ago and to this day, I get more hits for “Jim needs” than anything else, like 10x more hits than the next most popular thing.
One of the funnier ones is “patron saint of technology”, a post where I mentioned the new pope a couple of years ago.
Donncha O Caoimh
July 17th, 2007 2:27 am
Ahem, that would have to be “paris hilton video” .. whenever she does anything crazy like get arrested, or appear at a public party I get a small spike. I won’t even link it here, go search :)
The Legacy Lady
July 17th, 2007 2:37 am
Had to add one from this morning - “bean stuck in ear” - happened to my son - wrote about it and what do you know - it brings in traffic! :)
sarah
July 17th, 2007 2:40 am
Mine, amusingly, is “bumblejeep”! It’s Transformers’ Bumblebee, photo manipulated to make him a Philippine jeep instead of a car. Haha! It’s a funny (and impressive) photo manip. Lots of people love it even if they aren’t Filipinos. ^_^ The photo isn’t mine, though.
my Bumblejeep post: http://journal.sarahcada.com/2007/07/bumblejeep.html
My #2 search keyword is tied to “igoogle teahouse ghost”. It’s been the top for the longest time, and it was overthrown just last week when the Transformers movie opened.
IGoogle Teahouse Ghost post: http://journal.sarahcada.com/2007/06/igoogle-teahouse-ghost-captured.html
Manoj
July 17th, 2007 5:10 am
For the last 30 days at Web Analytics World the top referring keywords have been:
1) KPI
2) Facebook vs. Orkut
3) Web Analytics Comparison
4) omniture actionsource
Anna
July 17th, 2007 12:18 pm
Mine was “happy grunge.” That was actually the number 1 searched. But it gets even better. People drop by my site because of keywords like “typing with your forehead.” But wait! It gets even better. I even got this one: Men kissing under water. *lmao* I could only imagine how appalled those people were when they saw my site was personal. ;)
Jonas
July 17th, 2007 5:57 pm
Mine is iscrybe since it seems pretty popular and I have a screencast of it. Also “best online calendar” and Bubba mini server :)
Johann
July 17th, 2007 10:32 pm
I once wrote a post about renting a truck in Munich for relocation purposes.
At that time, I couldn’t get one because I tried at the end of the month and they were all booked already.
Unfortunately, “Transporter mieten in München” is still a popular search term although I don’t rent transporters at all :-)
Jason
July 18th, 2007 5:33 am
My top search varies, but it generally contains some form of “communication”. My favorite search term that has brought me traffic, however, is “plymouth”. I don’t recall ever writing the term, though I must have, but it was certainly odd to see it in the logs.
Gary
July 19th, 2007 3:02 am
Hottest keyword - Miss Belvedere
For the Plymouth that was buried in a time capsule in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1957
Funniest - maybe “How tall was Gary Grant”
Who knew you cared how tall I am!
Connie
July 21st, 2007 2:12 pm
The funniest search I saw was for ” ACDSee Connie”
My sister & I have 3rd party tutorials for ACDSee products & we provide tech support. I guess my word of mouth was a bit effective?
Christopher
August 15th, 2007 2:22 am
my biggest search terms are irregular verbs and verbos en ingles. Most of my traffic goes to my main site not to my linked blog.
I think it is a little dangerous to over optimize for your google search terms becuase if your ranking for those words drop, you’ll be stuck. Who knows? Maybe the next post you write will use your next top key word.
Christopher
August 15th, 2007 2:23 am
My biggest search terms are irregular verbs and verbos en ingles. Most of my traffic goes to my main site not to my linked blog.
I think it is a little dangerous to over optimize for your google search terms because if your ranking for those words drop, you’ll be stuck. Who knows? Maybe the next post you write will use your next top key word.
Jonathan Weaver
January 1st, 2008 12:33 pm
free always helps my site get in the top search results
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