What Brings You Here?

I saw my blog-boddy bobvis do this, so I thought I would, too. What kinds of search engine phrases bring people to the blog?  Even if they only come for a moment (about three-quarters of all visitors stay on the blog for less than one second), this reveals something about why people come here.

So, here are the 103 unique Google searches that led to hits on this website, since December 7, 2007 (there have been 320 unique visitors in that time, meaning that about 1 in 3 readers come here from Google):

 

1. beowulf real meaning
2. southern boy names
3. aqua dulce winery fire
4. hang a dartboard bracket
5. how much does a traffic light cost?
6. adult world, caryville, tn
7. iraq's official languge
8. pterodactyl movie
9. kitchen paint schemes with soffits
10. soffit in kitchen
11. is not the same thing as proof
12. potted chicken julia childs
13. child custody, religion
14. kitchen with soffits color ideas
15. some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest.
16. bain and company
17. how to proof front-runner
18. realist analysis of pakistan
19. ocular hygiene
20. exercise consequences of not exercising
21. lawyer stay at home
22. how much do traffic lights cost
23. not a potted plant
24. death as a cure for cancer
25. wells fargo cashier check escrow
26. critical analysis of hillary
27. how to figure out if a plant is posions or not
28. fear of immigrants phobia
29. obama con law iii final exam
30. kitchen soffit
31. swiss re golden compass
32. how to calculate nfl strength of victory
33. terrorist detainment britain
34. closing your servant i remain
35. harlen sanders
36. gateway repair facility
37. consequences of doing no exercise
38. shaving cut lip
39. ten commandments for pets
40. g.i. joe plant
41. pterodactyl movie
42. lyrics for does it really matter what its like
43. hillary
44. calculate strength of victory nfl
45. 'medieval letter closings'
46. hanging dart board instructions
47. darpa gay bomb
48. stephen presser clarence thomas
49. instructions on how to mount a dartboard on wall with brackets
50. difficulty of being a lawyer
51. shot arvada
52. traffic light costs
53. darpa gay bomb
54. roman days fast food
55. empiricism agnostic
56. redirecting addictive
57. picture of a present day four way traffic light
58. hyperbole in the real world
59. fedex facility houston
60. golden compass norway
61. pakistani lawyer in california
62. gherkin in golden compass
63. golden compass famous buildings
64. failing con law in law school
65. the battered husband syndrome
66. the eagles dictionary colitas
67. sexual identity golden compass daemon
68. ostrich homosexuality
69. the golden compass gherkin
70. porch potted plant ideas
71. what is the phobia for fear of canadians?
72. unusual so
73. the ivory door
74. hoosegow hotties
75. kidney stone weepy
76. polls of atheists on gay marriage
77. george bush potted plant quote
78. bush potted plant quote
79. nancy spungen funeral
80. george bush potted plant
81. dart board mount
82. southern first names
83. white mule military operation
84. attorneys very truly yours or sincerely demand letter
85. white mule military operation
86. beowulf movie christian reference
87. how much are traffic light posts in California
88. male first names southern
89. plant battery
90. pilgrims pride
91. about me short answer survey
92. how to straighten out moustache
93. stoicism
94. bye bye beater
95. potted plant stores new york city
96. jay cole dumond
97. a letter from a taliban with a sign
98. racquetball facts
99. knoxville kitchen restaining
100. dartboard cement wall
101. sara andrasek
102. plant joke
103. golden compass sneak preview gross

 

I'm sure there are advertising robots out there that can figure out what it is that makes people come here, and which could find things that make sense or would interest readers here. Now, I'm not interested in using the blog for any commercial purpose, so until further notice, there will be no advertisements here. But I am interested in why people come here, and this is as good an insight into that as anything I might hope to find as to what you, the Loyal Readers, find interesting here.

There is a lot of interest in recent movies (Beowulf, The Golden Compass). But there is also interest in my review of the Sci-Fi Creature Feature movie Pterodactyl, starring Coolio. (Who got bald and rocked the house.) So, you like movies. And you don't care if they're "A" or "B" movies. I can dig it.

Lots of the queries deal with attorneys and law.  I feel bad for whoever searched for “failing con law in law school” (relax, you’re probably not failing – unless you are – and it’s very common for people to struggle their first semester).  Some deal with politics, particularly a recent post about a scandal and others led Google clickers to some really old stuff.  Law and politics.  I like those things, too.

The "dartboard" post continues to be a big hit, apparently, and so does my amazement at how much money traffic lights cost.

Here's something interesting -- there are four times as many uses of variants of the word "soffit" as there are of the words "atheist" or "religion," and multiple queries about what southerners name their boys.

Also of note is the high number of international hits finding their way onto the blog.  Only about 4 in 5 readers are from the U.S.; I would have thought the percentage of U.S. readers would be very high because I am a U.S. citizen and I write about things from a U.S. perspective.  Over 1 in 20 are from the UK; there are three times as many Brits stopping by here as there are Canadians.  Not counting the one-second-or-less visits, of the last 500 people who actually stopped to read what is here written, readers also came from Germany, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, India, and Norway.  But none from Italy.

Finally, I'm gratified at the high number of responses to this round of opinion polls.  I guess I just needed to find the right question to ask to start hitting readers' nerves, and this was it. There is a new poll here about once every two weeks.

So, Readers, thanks for speaking up, and thanks for stopping by!