I haven't done a post on people finding this blog via search reasults (i.e. Google-type searches) for quite some time (the bad old Blogger days). The main reason has been that since moving to TypePad, it seems it took search engines a while to catch back up to where my blog was.
The last couple of weeks, the search hits have increased. So, for your entertainment, I will mention a few of them:
Evidently, Bogieblog is the 13th return for the search find someones parole officer
Sadly enough, I am the #1 return (besides a paid placement) for jockey julie crone. This makes me rather sad since I just put that post up 2 days ago!
I am way down the list (on page 8) for the search for "corneal transplant" patients letters
At #7, the searcher for Pictures of Riots at UNH was probably very dissappointed not to find pictures (and you wouldn't believe how many people are looking for those pictures!)
And as the #28 result for mph speed of pronghorn and cheetah, I might have been some help.
Bogieblog also had several hits for things such as; UNH "Red Sox" riots, Funny Cide (and other spellings of the name), Breeders Cup, what baseball team did dion sanders play on (I have no clue), cheetah's speed, firebike, cat lover's quiz, as well as all the rest of the usual suspects that I have reported on before.
Now how in the world do you find this information?
Posted by: Wichi Dude | October 28, 2003 at 05:37 PM
Yes, I'm interested, too.
Posted by: Buffy | October 28, 2003 at 06:37 PM
Through the site meter. I have kept it public, so if you want to take a gander, click on the "Site Meter" button on the right.
When the page comes up, click on "list by referrals" on the left. It will show the last 80 referrals on 5 pages. Anything that is from Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo or the like, is from a search engine. Click on the link of the search engine, and the page that the searcher was looking at will show up.
Buffy should be able to add something like that to her site easily. Wichi Dude can't (because he doesn't have Pro), but can get to his referrers through TypePad. Just click on the "Manage" tab and then on "View Visitor Stats and Referrers".
It isn't quite as refined as Site Meter is, but it does and okay job. The same applies in this case, click on any link where the "referring address" was google, and you can see what search found your blog.
Posted by: bogie | October 28, 2003 at 11:41 PM
Upon a second look at Buffy's blog, she has Site Meter already, so should be able to get her referrers easily.
Posted by: bogie | October 29, 2003 at 12:51 AM
I have suddenly become the #1 return for Poway fire and various derivitives (why does that word just look wrong?) on that theme solely because of Da Goddess' comment on the Stay Safe post.
Posted by: bogie | October 30, 2003 at 04:41 AM