How Did You Find Me?

Awhile back I admitted to being a wee bit obsessed with my Google Analytics numbers, especially the map that shows where my readers live. I've calmed down a bit in the checking-my-stats-multiple-times-a-day-department, but I still love to look at the map overlay and see that I have some regular readers in Canada, England, and all around the States. And I still get excited when a new city or country shows up on the map. It's like stamp collecting, only interesting.

Geography aside, today I want to talk about search terms and keywords. According to my statistics, this blog has received 115 visits from 100 keywords since I installed Google Analytics back in March. And oh the keywords that have been used! Some make a lot of sense. Things like "The Word Cellar" or "McGuiggan" have brought a few people here. But others, like "bombastic example sentence" and "Michael Jackson cream" are a bit unexpected.

Appreciated. But unexpected.

Here is a collection of some of the more noteworthy words and phrases that have landed people on this blog.

First bra stories are disturbingly popular:

• 1st bra
• "first bra"
• first bra stories
• "fifth grade" "first bra"
• "first bra" "video"
• "first bra" "stories”
• first training bra

The kits and their litter box shenanigans garnered some modest attention:

• litterless litter box
• cat box litterless
• home made pee soup (I have a hunch that this was a typo on the part of the searcher.)

The topic of sororities is the most popular item by far:

• sorority humiliation stories
• "joining a sorority"
• christians and sororities
• christians in sororities
• fake sorority
• first impressions count sorority
• glad i didn't pledge a sorority
• pounding the pledges
• sorority pledge humiliation
• sorority pledge week stories
• sorority poem excuses
• sorority secret language used during underground pledging

Not too surprisingly , terms like word, cellar, and stories are popular. But look what configurations they get into:

• 55 word stories
• alternatives for the word said
• another word for cellar bar
• creepy cellar stories and poems
• empty cellar syndrome
• how do you write the word hello in chinese
• illustrated short pillow stories
• in the cellar eating sour fruit poem
• morning word to tell a lady
• sad dinosaur story
• sayings with the word summer in it
• spirit cellar phones
• bees and the cellar phone
• "what is so interesting about the word" "serendipity"
• what kind of stories do knitters tell?
• words and stories suitable for jewish weddings

Here are some of the more random, amusing, and confusing search terms:

• "chicks dig pink" shirt
• "michael jackson cream"
• "od' und leer das meer" translation
• "yellow junipers"
• at.the.drive.in band photography
• bombastic example sentence
• public humiliation husband
• english accent smarter
• regret rolling off his tongue
• "retail" "how can i help you"
• immigrant quotes at seeing statue of liberty
• "sniffles" "buffy the vampire slayer" "cold sick"
• fall arrives so suddenly, no time to mourn the summer
• i choose my friends only far too well, i'm up on the pavement they're all down in the cellar