Search strings

Saturday, September 2, 2006 10:44 | Filed in Blogging, Oddities, The Pickards

I’ve read three posts recently which have made me think of this. Firstly, there was Mike Cherim’s Better SEO through blog post titles, then there was Bruce Lawson’s Shock Socialist Leanings Allegation where most of the regulars to his site call him a great big donkey bollocking leftie knobhead, and then of course there was Stephen Lang’s top searches. And if you’ve not seen them before, take a look at Joe Clark’s disturbing search requests. Anyhow, I thought it was time to trawl through my site statistics and see how people have been ending up at ThePickards.

We have:

Talking heads transcripts
… or rather we don’t.
Level AAA W3C Approved
I wouldn’t say I’m W3C approved, but it probably is relevant.
guidelines designing with dyslexia
Well, I do have an article called designing for dyslexia so that’s probably relevant too.
Sexsex 2006
I suspect I was probably a disappointment to whoever carried out this search. The same goes for the people who searched for sex or sex.sex.sex.
Gordon Davies goals
He scored 178 goals for Fulham between 1978 and 1991.
Woolworths blogs
Um … no. Although I suspect this may be due to Patrick Lauke’s inability to tell the difference between an Woolworths and a WH Smiths at the AcFo Expo 05.
..majob careerbuilde… diversitywor… s1jobs swz manpower mp3 ebay disgruntled kforce dipstick wiley amazon vault 192.com
Again, no. Nor do I know why I might appear in any search for this, other than the fact I’ve probably mentioned “mp3″ and used the word “disgruntled” before.
wcag
Surprised to find myself here, not because it’s not relevant — it is — but I didn’t think I’d be near the top for a search like this — upon checking I find myself in position 25. I make it to the top 10 if you’re looking for wcag 2, though…
nice boys
I think I’d file this one as one of Joe’s disturbing search requests…
Sunderland afc blog
No, no, no. That’s no good to anyone. People finding me would be disappointed, and frankly I don’t want to be known for that (for my international readers, Sunderland are the arch-rivals to my team, Newcastle United).
Destroy speed camera
Smash the cistern! Or you could just drive within the speed limit.
Things to do in Redcar for kids
Same as for adults really. Move out. No, only joking, I don’t want all the residents of Redcar on my back.
Pickards door handles
I’ve got some door handles in my house, but they’re not normally near the top of the list of things I talk about.
Word up on pub game machines
Yay! Another fan!

Well, there you go. I never knew I provided so much of an information resource. I ought to have guessed people would find my blog with odd requests, though…

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2 Comments to Search strings

  1. Steve says:

    September 2nd, 2006 at 11:20 am

    It’s good that we’re lighthearted about this. I picture a very serious blogger somewhere out there crying over his or her visitor logs because a high amount of their traffic comes from weird search strings.
    Have you noticed a pattern to this? There seems to be a high rate of odd Google searches on a Friday night. Back from the pub, kebab in hand, “I know, I’ll see if they’re any Woolworths blogs worth looking at…”

  2. Mike Cherim says:

    September 2nd, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    That is funny. I need to check mine now to see what kinds of crazy stuff people are searching for and ending up on some of my sites. :)

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