How People Find This Site, Part II

Back in November I ran a feature on the search terms that people use to find this site. Go read that feature here if you'd like. I'm not going to bother restating the explanation of how site stats work as that's all back in the previous feature. I am pointing out again that placement on search engines can change very quickly, so what I'm saying now could well have changed. If you want to see where it stand sright now, just click on the links below to see the current search results.

Let's start with some improvement, sort of. When I did this last, I was #20 on Yahoo for mean practical jokes, but now I'm at #9, amusingly with the article that mentioned I was at #20. Guess I'm a top ten resource for mean practical jokers.

Sometimes you can't be number one. I'm the number two site for pink bicycle on Google, but that's pretty good since the top spot brings up a site called pinkbike.com.

Anyone familiar with a search engine called AllTheWeb.com? I've never used it, but I'm listed on it, and someone searched there for uncle sam's cereal and found me at number #5. Apparently there really is an Uncle Sam Cereal, which you can read about here. I found it rather amusing.

Do you have trouble using shampoo? Someone must, because I got a hit from google on the search terms Just Lather, that's all explanation. Yes, that's grammatically horrible, but hey, if anyone ever uses it again, I'm at #1, so that's cool.

While we're talking about rather odd search terms, try ugly people named Johnny, which somebody searched for, and found me at #4 on Google.

This is one that makes perfect sense for a change, considering I ran an item called You're a Dead One, Mr. Grinch. I'm at the number four spot on Yahoo for dead grinch.

Anyone out there know who Connie Sellica is? I know she's married to John Tesh, and apparently has absolutely no fansites on the web, since yahoo only comes up with 20 results, of which I'm at #10. Impressive since I only mentioned her in passing. Heck, even Ed Begley Jr. has an official site. Maybe this article will garner me a little traffic in regards to his name.

Continuing along the line of troubling, I'm #18 on Lycos for website for vampires. No, not about vampires, for vampires. I guess those who live off the blood of the living need websites just as much as the rest of us.

This is one I hope is a typo, because I can't think of any reason for anyone to be searching on Google for snap, crackle, and pot cartoons. That's right, pot. Maybe someone at Kellogg was examining the viability of hemp krispies?

Now here's one I'm pleased with. I'm #1 on Google for both "Kevin Spacey gets shot" as a specific phrase, and Kevin Spacey gets shot as an open search term. Now, if only more people would search for these terms...

Only two results come up on Google with Ginsu knives "keep out of children" which isn't all that surprising, I guess. I'm the #1 result, though. Remove the quotes around keep out of children and there are a lot more results, but I'm still at the top spot.

Normally I don't bother with results where I'm not on the first page unless the search terms are really odd, but I'm on the second page of results and I got a hit for mini-wheat from Toile.com, which is a Quebec based search engine I hadn't heard of until I got hits from it. Looks like they source searches from Google, though, so I'm not all that surprised.