If you have a website, you can use Google Analytics to track how many people visit your site and how they get there. The keywords people type into Google before arriving here are many and varied, and a surprising amount involve women putting live fishes up their arse. Analytics even tells me how many people arrived via which search term, which in practice means dozens of one-hit wonders like 'stupid bernie', 'one shrimp! hello' and 'box of oranges'.
But when I looked today, Analytics listed a search term which had produced no visitors to my blog. That term is 'is simon mayo vegetarian'. Why only that one? There must be hundreds of millions of search terms which haven't tempted anybody at all to dip their toes in these monster-filled waters. What about 'jelly wombat king (name of)'? Or 'naked celebrity chef in champagne bottle'? Or...
I could go on.
2 comments:
At the risk of being an Analytics geek (which I fear my blog stalker has turned me into) this is probably a quirk of Analytics. Analytics is not actually that reliable (or, I hope it's not or I need to move house). Anything that appears as a weird thing, is probably a non-weird-thing that Analytics is misrepresenting.
Or perhaps I'm just naive and not used to being exposed to women putting live fish up their arses. *goes off to be worried*
Of course now Google will pick up those phrases on your blog and you'll be inundated.
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