Search Queries, Lurkers Unite!
Apr 1st, 2007 by Alex
I just ran a batch of Analog reports on the webserver’s logs this morning, where I learned that the traffic to this blog has more than quadrupled since November. I think that’s pretty good since I don’t advertise much beyond word-of-mouth. That generally doesn’t count RSS subscribers either, although you guys are growing in numbers as well. A fair number of readers, but few commenters. To the regular lurkers out there, here’s my request. Try to leave a witty comment. You don’t need to leave your full (or even real) name if you’re concerned. Not a big deal, but I’m genuinely curious who’s out there reading. Or if the association if too terrifying, remain a lurker in the NAT’d safety of your home…
If someone searches Google for “flying donuts” and clicks through to one of my pages, I get to see that. It’s entertaining to see the search queries that people use to get to the site. Of the top 500 search queries — in addition to many variations of MySpace sucking — here’s some of my favorites, although I’m not sure I want to meet those interested in the envelopes or pictures of the Cheez Whiz bottle…
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The entire list of search terms follows, sorted by frequency of use. What’s your favorite?
- myspace sucks
- why myspace sucks
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- reasons why myspace sucks
- marimba tuner
- msg hotmail
- myspace sucks!
- the departed spoiler
- startac e911
- coment cleaners
- myspace structure
- proprietary rights in content on myspace.com
- reasons myspace sucks
- new american funding
- msg
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- saic ipo
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- myspace.com sucks
- motorola v325 troubleshooting
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- shaving cream conspiracy
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- wii at walmart
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- personalized m&ms promotion code
- 452 out of memory hotmail
- buzz ballads lyrics
- smtp 452 out of memory
- proprietary rights myspace
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- m&m’s promo code
- myspace proprietary rights
- myspace
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- your myspace sucks
- how to get a wii at walmart
- myspace sucks pictures
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- history of myspace
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- msg sleep
- mcdonalds technology
- how to get rid of myspace advertising
- flashing text sucks
- comet rice
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- v325 troubleshooting
- autoplay myspace
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- thumbnail maps
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- marimba tuner command line
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- msg things myspace
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- your myspace sucks comments
- how to activate a startac phone
- auto play music on myspace
- how to get rid of the ad on myspace
- reactivating startac phones
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- myspace sucks get a life
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- the famous mcdoogals
- tm signs for myspace
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- the departed’ spoiler
- giant landover
- adsense myspace profile
- reason myspace sucks
- get rid of myspace banner ads
- myspace buffer
- activating startac with verizon
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- msg legal
- reactivate startac
- balmer hun
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- connected generation
- proprietary right myspace
- dave barry turns forty
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- autoplay music myspace
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- myspace servers sucks
- activate startac phone
- cheez whiz fries
- msg on dish network
- we’re getting too old for this!
- promotion code for custom m&ms
- annoyance marimba tuner
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- mx2.hotmail.com deferred due to host status down
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- system tray icons
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- i want to activate my startac
- myspace sucks because
- mcdonalds training
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- why i hate myspace blogs
- can’t reactivate verizon startac
- get rid of myspace banner ad
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- custom m&m promo codes
- myspace bad rights proprietary
- deactivated gps reactivate
- html to get rid of myspace ads
- mcdonalds cashiers
- how to activate startac phones
- myspace sucks!!!
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- msg myspace
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- msg conspiracy
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- myspace uses
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- god only knows what i’d be without msg
- verizon agps/aflt
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- get rid of myspace advertisement banner
- hotmail 452
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- verizon wireless msg camera
- heinz 57 sauce
- myspace sucks top 8
- custom m&m’s promo code
- myspace proprietary
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- system tray useless
- startac e 911
- how to get rid of the ad banner on myspace
- 452 out of memory in reply to mail from command
- mcdonalds till training
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- add msg myspace
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- graphs myspace addictions
- flashing myspace banners
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- myspace sucks html
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- remove myspace banner ad
- any way to use startac st7868w verizon
- personalized m&m promotion code
- what myspace lacks
- visual studio takes forever to install
- myspace sucks page
- startac humor
- melting cheez whiz
- myspace lacks
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- cashiers mcdonalds
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- scrolling past myspace banner ads
- myspace sucks for bands
- activating old phone with verizon
- promotion code for custom m&m’s
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- m&m custom print promotion code
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- lyrics buzz ballads
- comet pie tins
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- personalized m&m promo code
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- flashing myspace photos
- cheez whiz squeeze bottle pictures
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- 452 out of memory smtp
- is myspace distracting?
- how to reboot cell phone
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- html to get rid of ads on myspace
- myspace sucks -www myspace.com
- e911 law gps 2006
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- flashing banner at the top of myspace profile
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- gps law verizon
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- your page sucks myspace
- i hate myspaces message boards
- myspace music policy sucks
- myspace profile tarot reading
- marimba tuner system tray
- gmail troubleshoot
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- hbo showtime 2007 promo
- myspace band advertising
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- verizon wireless st7868w issues
- get rid of advertising on myspace
- myspace service sucks
- french fry bleach
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- myspace friend count deleted
- verizon wireless e911
- how do you delete your messages that you sent out on myspace
- receiving myspace comments but don’t have a myspace account
- electrify hair follicles
- cashiers are idiots
- myspace sublicensees
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- quotes about mocking
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- myspace bisexual comments
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- mailman gmail error
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- reading sucks pic for myspace
- startac handset
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- democratic myspace banners
- script that removes the annoying sidebar from yahoo! geocities free webpages
- verizon t300p reports
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- myspace sucks animation
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- your myspace sucks images
- flavored glue envelopes
- myspace comment with obnoxious band banners
- smtp out of memory in reply to mail from command
- return wii to walmart
- mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.244.232]
- red bull beer
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- google adsense embed in myspace
- 452 out of memory error smtp
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- disable marimba tuner
- back door websites for myspace in school
- how can i get verizon to activate startac
- red bull mixed with advil
- gmail email delivery problems
- tarot cards animated for myspace
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- yuengling in las vegas
- airline audio jacks
- limiting comment images without affecting smaller images on myspace
- myspace tags insults
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- codes to make letters like tm on myspace
- verizon employees prefer phones
- pat’s cheese fries recipe
- verizon cell gps law 2006
- myspace pictures above advertisement on band profiles
- remove ad myspace
- location request e815 gps
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- agps aflt
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- reason why myspace sucks page
- friendship sucks
- 452 out of memory sending to hotmail
- get rid of advertisement on myspace page
- www.myspace.com blog archive
- red bull adhesive
- should myspace ever be purchased by a major label or perhaps a large conglomerate with a label other its wing time warner anyone?
- birthday text msg quoto
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- verizon fcc mandate gps
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- msg in rice a roni
- how to remove ad banner myspace profile
- myspace sucks!!!!
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- banner ads on myspace
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- get rid of myspace advertisement banners
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- add and msg myspace
- verizon wireless gps api
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- msn mail exchangers
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- company owes me money?
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- how does a mcdonald cashier work
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- verizon won’t activate startac
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- myspace increase plays
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- how to remove banner ads from myspace profiles
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- why are personalized m&m’s so expensive
- reasons why myspace is a joke
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- myspace sucks myspace profile
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- witty myspace headlines
- accounts payable department
- i love my startac
- get rid of ads on myspace profiles
- myspace sucks go away
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- myspace music page sucks
- myspace royalty free worldwide license
- can a person get in trouble for creating a fake myspace profile
- copper paint faraday cage
- proprietary rights on myspace.com
- kraft cheese whiz squeeze
- verizon gps startac
- kraft cheese msg
- cool beats to listen to
- heinz 57 sauce so expensive
- how many people will 16 pounds of frozen french fries feed
- smtp out of memory 452
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- famous mcdoogals
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- my space msg
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- how to get rid of advertising on my space
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- how do you tell a coworker he is rude and interrupts conversations?
- myspace get rid of banner
- coupon clipper clubs
- getting songs on myspace to autoplay
- clustrmaps spyware
- mypace back doors
- myspace kills my bandwidth
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- myspace self produced
- startac still used
- pop ad sucks
- is adsense legal with myspace page
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- red bull advil
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- myspace get rid of top 8
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- can i reactivate my verizon wireless startac phone
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- flashing text for my space
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- modifying other people’s myspace profiles
- how to add adsense to myspace profile
- flashing page on myspace
- structure myspace
- remove ads section in myspace
- reactivate verizon wireless phone
- get rid of myspace advertising
- why myspace.com sucks
- customize m&m promo code
- how do you get rid of the myspace agreements at bottom of page
- profile help myspace sucks
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For the geeks, the full report was generated in 2 seconds by this command:
analog +A -D -4 -5 -6 -7 -w -C'FILEINCLUDE /tm/*' -C'SEARCHQUERYFLOOR -500r' mylog
Bear in mind that some of them are deliberate referral spam. I’m also trying out an Adsense feature called section targeting; it tells Google’s spiders to ignore the large block of terms above. We’ll see if it works.
![[del.icio.us]](http://www.moundalexis.com/images/delicious.png){kind=small}
For some reason, my top search queries are “molly wilson” “natalie merchant”, and “maura kennedy”.
Probably because they’re all in my photo gallery
None of my common queries are really surprising. Usually about MP3s or concert reviews. Though some weird ones do pop in every once in a while, but none that really take me by surprise.
I’m with you on the lurking. Leave comments! We want to know who’s reading!
I like this one:
how many people will 16 pounds of frozen french fries feed,
because I hope the answer is at least 16 people.
ACW: I know the Internet is haven to a lot of dumb people, but it still amazes me that people query for things where the answers are so severely subjective that no one could ever know AN answer. 16 pounds? Me, over the course of a year… the whole country of Zambia given the opportunity…
(totally ripping off your comment response model)
No worries, I ripped my model from someone else, I’m sure.
I hit it searching for Custom M&M promotional codes, and I still can’t find the damn thing!
http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2006/08/20/custom-printed-mms/
There you go.
[...] I suspected that there were more lurkers out there, so I asked lurkers to comment. It didn’t work. Big shocker. So then out of curiosity (both about readership and after setting up AdWords for a clinet) I started running Google Analytics on my blogs. The relatively small number of visitors wasn’t suprising, but the fact that 74% of all visitors come in from search engines was. The majority of visitors come from search engine queries. That’s crazy, although it helps explains why only 12% of visitors actually return to the site and why 85% of them only spend between 0-10 seconds on. [...]
Gosh - I was only looking to lower the bill when buying M&Ms. You are really smart - I am jealous!!