Comments on: Search Queries, Lurkers Unite!

By: Bev

Bev — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:06:39 +0000

Gosh - I was only looking to lower the bill when buying M&Ms. You are really smart - I am jealous!!

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Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:07:48 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:27:29 +0000

Butterfly: The front page only contains 10-15 entries, so it’s possible that Google’s index isn’t current and that the M&M’s entry wasn’t there anymore.

http://www.moundalexis.com/tm/2006/08/20/custom-printed-mms/

There you go.

By: Butterfly

Butterfly — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:46:44 +0000

I hit it searching for Custom M&M promotional codes, and I still can’t find the damn thing!

By: anonymouscoworker

anonymouscoworker — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:18:20 +0000

No worries, I ripped my model from someone else, I’m sure.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:48:42 +0000

Misch: Can’t imagine why. Just checked your travel log. Still taking your “stalking” seriously I see.

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)

By: anonymouscoworker

anonymouscoworker — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:42:49 +0000

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.

By: Any Given Tuesday

Any Given Tuesday — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:25:09 +0000

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!

By: Paul Mischler

Paul Mischler — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:42:07 +0000

For some reason, my top search queries are “molly wilson” “natalie merchant”, and “maura kennedy”.

Probably because they’re all in my photo gallery