Comments on: Which Search Terms Bring You Traffic?

By: Jonathan Weaver

Jonathan Weaver — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:33:48 +0000

free always helps my site get in the top search results

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:23:18 +0000

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.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:22:20 +0000

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.

By: Connie

Connie — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:12:58 +0000

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?

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:02:33 +0000

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!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:33:08 +0000

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.

By: Johann

Johann — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:32:28 +0000

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 :-)

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:57:57 +0000

Mine is iscrybe since it seems pretty popular and I have a screencast of it. Also “best online calendar” and Bubba mini server :)

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:18:08 +0000

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. ;)

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:10:09 +0000

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

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:40:18 +0000

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

By: The Legacy Lady

The Legacy Lady — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:37:42 +0000

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! :)

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:27:58 +0000

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 :)

By: Jim Walton

Jim Walton — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:19:35 +0000

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.

By: Protestant

Protestant — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:55:05 +0000

The search term bringing me the most hits is: “stacy dash”.

The funniest search term is: “elke the stallion”

By: LintCollector

LintCollector — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:18:22 +0000

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.

By: maria luisa

maria luisa — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:57:10 +0000

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?

By: Sebbi

Sebbi — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:24:16 +0000

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 ;-)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:16:45 +0000

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.

By: Mommy Zabs

Mommy Zabs — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:10:17 +0000

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