A Life, Lived: Click, Click, Click - February 29

March 07, 2008

Click, Click, Click - February 29 - March 7

I'll admit to being a loser right up front.

One of the things which fascinates me about my blog is how people get there. I guess you get what you pay for because Typepad does an incredible job of getting the blog content out into the hands of search engines, particularly google. When I check my stats to see how many visitors I get in a day (about 120 per day these days) I can look at where they came from.

About 1/3 of my visitors arrive via various slow travel pals, their blogs, or by clicking on my blog lonk on posts I've made to the message board. Another 1/3 of the posts come from friends and family. The rest come from google searches.

I decided it would be neat to track this for a week (remember the full disclosure in the first line) so I recorded the words people entered into the search engine, they clicked 'Google Search' and low and behold, they ended up at my little spot on the internet.

These are the searches for the past week (if the exact phrase was used I didn't repeat it, there were many repeats):

jerry's rants
boozes named after 15th century venetian painter
duffs chicken wings calories
nutritional values - duffs wings
recipe duffs chicken wings
how far is duff's from niagara falls
chicken wing ottawa
Lcbo molten chocolate cakes
alta vista animal hospital rating Ottawa
asparagus gruyere tart
asparagus slanted door recipe
fennell recipes jamie oliver
smashed vegetables jamie oliver
jamies smashed veg
jamie oliver roast pork
slow roasting pork
slow roast pork, jamie oliver
slow roast pork Jamie
Jamie Oliver at home slow roast pork
Jamie Oliver's pork with fennel and garlic recipe
jamie oliver - roast vegetables
"slow roasted pork" + "Jamie Oliver"
"Jamie Oliver"+"Pork shoulder"
pork shoulder recipe jamie oliver
pork jamie oliver
slow roast pork + spices
jamie oliver slow roast lamb
jamie oliver carbonara
photos of melissa oneil in dirty dancing in Toronto
charile Wilson
Charile Wilson's War
charile wilsons quotes
“pear pecorino ravioli"
pin ravioli
herbs pumpkin goes well with
butternut squash & smokey bacon
were are those who won the lottery
dirty dancing logo
dirty dancing cake
children of the 30s
50"s garden hose mud pies
alexandra byrne arms
cook tilapia oliver
obay
boone's sangria
cameron diaz best cinematography
diablo Colby
alexandra bryne at the oscars + her dress
brie sandwich blog
bean sprout soup
spinach stuffed chicken breasts
buckwheat pancakes
soma chocolate shortbread
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened 1 cup brown cream together the butter white chunk macadamia
toronto globe & mail orange marmalade cake
blueberry lemon pancakes
growing season potentials Vitis vinifera in niagara peninsula
Montisi
pancetta and arugula pizza
thoughts on the end of no country for old men
french martini
queen victoria lb in 1873
definition "pinboned"
upper canada cheese
"easter hunt" clues
blue cheese crust
quick and easy summer desserts
pancetta green asparagus jamie oliver
jamie oliver pancetta wrapped fish
ripassa meatball pairings
sangsters rum cream monkey's uncle
blended bellini recipes from milestone
beef barley soup cooking light
12 angry men morality
"world without end" reviews
if i won the lottery

Does this tell us anything? I think so.

Firstly - few people know how to do a good web search that truly uses the power of boolean searching. Secondly, those who do search have atrocious spelling. Third, if you want traffic to your blog it is best to have a variety of posts. Finally, if you REALLY want traffic, post a recipe about Jamie Oliver.

Posted at 06:22 PM in Blather, Food and Drink, Fun | Permalink

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And, I am wondering how many times your name comes up in Jamie's blog tracking...LOL.

This was a very interesting post...enjoyed it very much. Fun to see just how the circle comes around.

Posted by: Kayte | March 07, 2008 at 07:53 PM

Jerry, this has always been a point of fascination with me, too. Some of the searches are quite bizarre and often don't result in much of a stay. BTW--check your spelling in the last sentence. :)

Posted by: Jane | March 07, 2008 at 11:06 PM

OK Jerry, since YOU brought up the spelling thing.....did you mean to type "LOSER" in the firs tline....or was this a comment on your personality!? (ROTF!)

Posted by: Barbara | March 08, 2008 at 05:36 AM

LOL - I didn't bother editing this post because of all of the errors on the search phrases. Thank you Barbara and Jane for your assistance.

Barbara - YES!

Kayte - the jamie oliver thing is a source of fascination for me. Guess what? We're doing two more recipes from his book this week! Apparently I'll do anything for a few clicks.

Posted by: Jerry | March 08, 2008 at 05:41 AM