Now that I have your attention…
I was wandering around some food blogs the other day and took some time to more thoroughly read one of the more entertaining blogs on my list. The blogger had a special section that promoted advertising on the blog, and touted the thousands of hits a day the blog got.
Disgruntled, I wondered how on earth the blog had built up that traffic. Wow, thousands of hits a day???
Then I clicked on the site meter symbol in the corner to take a look at where the traffic was coming from. Ready for this?
It was coming from a segment of the thousands of people searching on the term Janet Jackson’s br**st.
Turns out that this blogger had made a humorous post about making a cupcake in the shape of Janet Jacksons br**st in honor of the now famed wardrobe malfunction at last year’s superbowl.
And no, I am not starring out the word br**st because I believe my fellow foodies are overly sensitive and can’t take seeing the word. I’m doing it so that the thousands of people searching for titillating views of non-foodlike items don’t find me through the search engines!
Search engines are funny. Right now the top search terms for hitting my blog are:
- zigeuner schnitzel
- johsonville bratwurst (note the mispelling – I goofed on an entry and mispelled the word. Turns out that a number of search engine searches do the same every day! Who knew.)
- Hawaiian martini
- how to cook purple cauliflower – I guess people think the color makes a difference in the cooking process
- Gray’s Papaya – thanks to my tubular meat obsessed partner in crime
- the bears still suck polka – probably strong interest in that term after last weeks football game…
…. and a lot more terms that amuse and entertain me!
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Hi Irene – I’ve been scratching my head over a few search terms that are bringing people to my blog everyday: “gorditas” and “pinocchio funnel”. I suppose the latter might be because they’re trying to find it to purchase, but what’s up with gorditas? Only a small amount of my traffic is from search engines, so I haven’t had many funny ones, but still it is fascinating!