Samurai Pickle

February 25, 2008

Silly things people search for on Google

Filed under: Combat: Samurai Island, Second Life, WTF — Tags: , , — Takuan Daikon @ 3:10 am

Note: this entry has moved.

I’ve been INSANELY busy these last two days, and haven’t been able to make it in-world for any substantial amount of time, so tonight I thought I’d slow down a little and take a peek at my Google Analytics numbers for this site while I was eating dinner.

Google Analytics is freaking awesome if you own a website, even if it *is* geared more toward those who are attempting to make money via advertising. Among the useful features it includes is a way to clearly see which search engine phrases are bringing people to your site, I suppose under the theory that if you know what works you can maximize it.

Now, there’s always a few queries listed that get chuckles out of me, but some are just downright amazing; I think to myself “How the hell did that phrase bring someone to my site?!?!”. For example, one of the search queries was “catch mono tomorrow”, and I’m still curious how my site came up in that search.

And then there’s this:

Silly cheaters, C:SI is for kicks!

Of all the places for someone to find information about how to cheat in C:SI, they clicked on my site.

That was a pretty good chuckle :)

5 Comments

  1. How are you getting Google Analytics to work for you? I thought JavaScript was verboten on wordpress.com.

    Comment by Harper — February 25, 2008 @ 7:28 am

  2. Ah… I am getting it to work on my other blog at http://www.daikonforge.com.

    This blog is mainly an experiment, and right now mirrors the content of that other blog, which is why you saw the post here.

    Comment by Takuan Daikon — February 25, 2008 @ 7:38 am

  3. You know, that makes me really wonder… How did *you* find this blog, anyhow? :)

    Comment by Takuan Daikon — February 25, 2008 @ 7:40 am

  4. This blog appears right now in the Tag Surf option from the dashboard of all wordpress.com blogs. Give Tag Surf the tags you’re looking for, and it will pull up the 10 most recent posts on wordpress.com with that as a tag, or at least as a string in the body. Since I’m a wordpress.com blog….

    Comment by Harper — February 25, 2008 @ 8:58 am

  5. Oh, that is a fantastic thing to know, thank you for that!

    By the way, checked out your blog, interesting stuff, had to subscribe :)

    Comment by Takuan Daikon — February 25, 2008 @ 9:04 am


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