Particularly interesting are the Google search terms which I optimistically hope are an indication someone is more likely to assist me if I'm set upon by a pack of wild dogs and less likely to have set the pack of wild dogs upon me. For example, "black american girl in eastern europe" which I swear on a puppy paw is verbatim what someone in Croatia was looking for. Now maybe that was a black man or woman in Croatia looking for the other black people in Eastern Europe so we could get a support group going but maybe that was an English speaking local who is trying to find out where the sistas are. I can not divine intentions from Google queries and between us adults, that was probably an adult oriented search but it does appear the person lingered on my blog even though the only ebony beauty on the site is Baloo. Probably a function of how long it took them to figure out in their second language that this was not the site to find what they were looking for, but food for thought and amusement anyway.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Jungle Fever in Eastern Europe...aka how internet search terms bring weird people to your blog
Since the prologue to my sure to be best selling debut memoir/guidebook, The Black Person's Guide to Eastern Europe, I have been getting some weird traffic on my blog. Any traffic at all on my blog is happy-dance town to me but this traffic is particularly amusing because of how people arrive here. I'm not sure if I just noticed it or blogger has always done this but you can view stats on your blog and get a sense of how people find your blog if they aren't just entering your site directly through a bookmark or reader.
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Love it! Interesting you can see how they got to you!
Based on my stats, I'd guess it was an adult-oriented search. I used to get all excited when I'd see 100 hits a day on my Stays Put site. "Wow man, I'm really generating some readers," I thought. But then on inspection, every search was for "Hot Asians," or "porn star Jada Fire," or some such picture I had included in a post. Ah well.
Funny post.
Thanks Lodo! Glad to know you thought it was funny. Sincerely value that feedback. I'm sure you are spot on re: the reason behind my modest spike in visitors. Years ago I had a picture of fire on my blog and I had people coming from all over the world because they had googled something related to fire. No conversions from fire seekers to blog readers but it was funny to see so many people looking for fire. Who knew?
This cracks me up. All of it! (And Baloo is *not* the only ebony beauty on your site - that made me laugh out loud!) And swearing on a "puppy paw"... hilarious! :)
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