Now and again (i try not to be too obsessive about it) I peruse my google analytics. Perhaps this is through boredom or self gratification, I’m not sure but one of the highlights of this experience for me is looking at the weird keywords people have found my site with:
- ‘e-motivator’ – okay this probably isn’t that strange as I do have probably the best e-motivator device around, I hope the people who found it were motivated.
- ‘crap design for multimedia’ – it’s unfortunate my site comes up first when you search for this
- ‘best multimedia portfolio websites 2008′ – luckily this one cancels out the last one and I think this one is definitely more applicable!
- ‘can whales breath out of water’ – simple answer, no they can’t….or can they, actually I’m not sure but my blog doesn’t provide the answer for this anyway, it does tell you about liquefaction.
- ‘gay handshake’ – if you have ever shook my hand, you will know this is a ridiculous search term to find my site with seen as though it was created by me, who has an incredibly powerful manly handshake. I even did a picture about a ‘firm’, yes ‘firm’, un-gay handshake here.
- ‘high tack graphics pontefract’ – I’d like to think I’m not the source of any tacky graphics found in Pontefract but it seems someone must have been enraged by the low level of graphic design in Pontefract perhaps!?
- ‘john bunnell dick’ – he is a bit of dick but also an undeliberate comedy legend – find out why here.
- ‘what will i look like as an old person’ – unfortunately I don’t know. Because of the success of my facebook picture, I have vast amount of facebook and age related search queries. Check it out here if you want, but don’t expect it to have any kind of prophetic abilities.
I guess the moral of the story is that Google rankings don’t necessarily correspond with the truth, such as searching for what is the meaning of life, Google tells me it is “the fourth studio album from German thrash metal band Tankard”…. I’m pretty sure I won’t find the answer there :-/
I think it is always interesting how people find your site, I always laugh when there is something really random. Someone mentioned how they found my site the other day and I couldn’t believe how random it was. I suppose as long as its relevant traffic its all good.