Who reamed Roger Rabbit?
I seriously do not know, but apparently my blog is one place to find the answer to this important question.
Although it is a bit deflating to realize how many of my hits must be irritating mistakes to the people who visit, overall, checking out how people found my blog via Google search terms used to be fun.
A lot of people come to the post Top Nine Most Romantic Love Scenes in Romance by Googling “top love scenes.”
I do feel sorry for all the people looking for “orgasm on command” who hope to find some assistance here, but instead find this post.
Some of the other terms are pretty amusing:
“transforming men into pretty sluts”
“luscious butts”
“oldhumansex” (one word, of course)
“rfp tofurkey”
I wonder how many pages of Google search results the folks looking for “Jon Stewart” had to wade through to find my blog, because a search for him yields over 6 million hits, and I’m pretty sure my Hanukkah post is not in the top, oh, 5.99 million.
Sometimes people (authors, reviewers) are Googling themselves, never an activity you want to be caught doing.
And I’ve lost count of how many folks found my blog looking for the name of the cover model for Lisa Kleypas’s Seduce Me at Sunrise.
My absolute favorite has to be “I saw something nasty in the wood shed”, which is a line from a terrific movie, Cold Comfort Farm. I used it in my review of Nora Roberts’ Born in Fire.
But I now realize there is a dark side to search terms.
Sometimes people are looking for spoilers, and it is a great and terrible irony that those people are sometimes spoiling me by doing so. There is nothing more disappointing than being halfway through a series like Sookie Stackhouse or the Black Dagger Brotherhood or the Twelve Houses and finding out what happens in the book I haven’t read.
I guess I can display more self control and just not look at the search terms, but that would require not visiting my stats page and that’s way more self control than I have.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!
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#1 by Violet on December 23, 2008 - 9:12 am
so true. I cannot NOT look at my stats too. The search terms I mostly find are related to serial killers. I had done a review on the book ‘World famous serial killers’.
I didn’t know so many people are interested in serial killers. The worst search terms are the ones that suggest someone sinister is behind those search terms.
#2 by carolyn jean on December 23, 2008 - 10:20 am
Wait a minute, I slogged through that whole post and I don’t get to find out who reamed Roger Rabbit???
It’s funny to see what people land on other blogs for. I’m addicted to my stats, too. My creepiest one is where I did this post on my mom wanting to go to the Sex in the City movie on her 70th birthday, and I had some flip title like, my 70 year old mother the sex fanatic, but it drew HORRIBLY disturbing searches right away. I changed the title but it still lives on in google land. I hate getting those hits!
#3 by Jessica on December 23, 2008 - 10:21 am
carolyn jean wrote:
Unfortunately, it was Jessica.
#4 by Ana on December 23, 2008 - 11:41 am
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#5 by KMont on December 23, 2008 - 12:04 pm
The weirdest search term I used to get was “Anita Blake panties”, which made me gag. I don’t know if there’ some kind of products for sale, but since the books now have Anita as some slave to sex with everyone, it doesn’t paint a pretty pic.
But I’ve never been spoiled on a book through search terms. How odd.
#6 by Christine on December 23, 2008 - 12:38 pm
My number of daily blog hits has practically doubled ever since I posted a review of the Coldplay concert I went to in October 2008. Imagine that? People from all over the world wanting to read a Coldplay concert review and they get mine? LOLOLOL!!
BTW, you’ve got the coolest tag cloud I’ve ever seen!
Happy Hanukkah, Jessica!
#7 by Jessica on December 23, 2008 - 3:52 pm
KMont wrote:
Ewwwwwwww…would those be the panties her mother laid out for her? (Any Seinfeld fans?)
@ Christine:
That was a great concert review! And thanks!
#8 by Thea on December 23, 2008 - 5:21 pm
Wait, wait, Jessica Rabbit is Roger Rabbit’s wife, right?
This is hilarious–Ana and I love looking at our stats and google search phrases. More often than not, there are a bunch of hilarious ones. I think one of the most popular google searches to our site is “Poison Ivy Adult Costume” (we had a poll once about regrettable superhero/villain costumes). Every day without fail. I never knew Poison Ivy costumes were in such high demand!
Another thing I’ve learned from stat trackers–some people have no idea how to use search engines. We get some of the most convoluted queries (once there was one that was something like: “the one book where the goblin kisses the princess and everything turns out happy in the end because the king says thank you and the unicorn jumps over the magic rainbow”). Truly bizarre.
#9 by Jessica on December 23, 2008 - 5:51 pm
Thea wrote:
Yes, and that’s the only connection I can think of to this blog. I swear.
See, now that’s what I mean. A perfectly awesome story … spoiled!
#10 by RfP on December 24, 2008 - 4:41 am
I love that someone’s searching for that! It’s actually in the book too, and equally creepy:
Not sure what to say about the inexplicable fame of my tofurkey business… except check back in 2009 for my new high-fiber product, treebarkey.
#11 by Jessica on December 24, 2008 - 9:11 am
RfP wrote:
I was wondering how long it would take you to fess up.
#12 by Kate on December 31, 2008 - 2:10 am
Oh my gosh, I have never much delved into my search term stats. It is fascinating! And sad…most of my hits have to do with a coworker who recently passed away.
Though there are some that make me giggle outright: ‘”oksana chusovitina” lick’ (I have no idea!), “corpulent babies, armed with quivers and bows room” (from The Lost Duke of Wyndham), gym women pants wicking smelly (???)
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#13 by Keira from LoveRomancePassion on January 6, 2009 - 9:04 pm
Hey – I found out who the male model is for Seduce Me at Sunrise and I’ve nominated him to be #8 in my Search for Fabio series.
http://www.loveromancepassion.com/mr-eight-in-the-search-for-fabio/