It still boggles my mind that people actually come here daily and read my blog. What gets me even more is that it’s not just my mom and dad and a couple of good friends. It’s all kinds of people. Lots of different people. Some that I know, most that I don’t. I’m actually quite humbled by it.
The internet is a beautiful thing in the sense that it can give a voice to those who may not have otherwise had one. There will likely be no book deals in my future. I don’t ever expect to be employed as a writer for any influential magazines. Don’t look for me to be the next Stone Phillips on Dateline. Is Stone Phillips even still on Dateline? I haven’t watched it for a few years. I digress. That aside, I can take my little piece of cyberspace and use it to share a few random thoughts.
I do track the traffic on my blog, to a certain degree. One of the things that always amuses me is the way some people find the site. I have to believe that they are never expecting what they find when they get here. At the same time, I also wonder what the heck people are really looking for with some of their keyword searches.
To those of you that have found this site as the result of a random Google search… I hope you found what you were looking for! If you came back the next day… thank you!
Some of my favorites…
A cat in a tree: This really shouldn’t come as a surprise, since I am a Firefighter and cats in trees seem to go right along with that. This search lead to this post… No Glove… No Love!
PUT THIS BY YOUR TOILET! My sister and brother-in-law give me “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” books for Christmas every year. They are actually great books. At first I was a little hurt that somebody would search for that phrase and find my blog. Then I remembered the Bathroom Reader books and figured I was in good company! It lead to this blog… Thoughts From The Throne
ATTENTION LADIES SAVE A FIRE TRUCK RIDE A FIREMAN SHIRT!!!!! Mom… I want you to know that I had nothing to do with this keyword search. I am still a good boy and a perfect gentleman! Why this particular keyword search brought somebody to the blog is, again, beyond me. It directed them to the blog titled Pull Over
pictures of a boy in a cornfield: These people must have been greatly disappointed. I assure you that there are no pictures of boys in a cornfield anywhere on this blog. I wonder if they took the time to read Friday Night In The Cornfield which is the page their search sent them to. If they did, I hope it inspired them.
chicken -typepad -wordpress -bloglines -blogspot -flickr: What could you possibly be looking for with a keyword search like that? I have no clue. But I bet it wasn’t anything close to what they found on my blog! That search lead them to a recent post called Protecting You From My Hairy Chicken Legs
“marc scott” chorus: This search came from Google Denmark. Do you suppose it means somebody has written a song about me? That’d be pretty sweet! Of course, if they were in fact looking for a song about me it, would have been a letdown when all they found was a blog titled What Heaven Might Sound Like
skinniest firefighter: This one made me laugh. Truth be told… when I joined the department in 2000, I don’t doubt I was the skinniest Firefighter. I weighed about 125lbs soaking wet! No kidding! I wish I could have seen the look on the searchers face when their Google results brought them to a blog post about my boxer shorts! HA! That would’ve been classic. Yes… They’re Blue
“i am divorced” Somebody did a keyword search for this from Google Russia. That’s right baby… my blog is famous worldwide!!! My heart goes out to the person who conducted this search. If they were looking for advice, encouragement, support or a date (you never know) they must have been really disappointed when they found a blog about my trip to Walmart to buy new underwear! I Could Hide Out Under There… I Just Made You Say Underwear
kara dioguardi pictures of her big ears: It is no surprise to regular visitors of this blog that I watch Idol, and blog about Idol. If you have read those then you also know I have a crush on Kara DioGuardi. That said, I do not think she has big ears. Nor do I have pictures of them! This search, however, did bring people to my wonderful play by play Idol blogs!
I could actually keep going. There are a ton of these. No kidding! But I will end with my favorite thus far…
shrunken man trapped in the women’s purse: What in the world could you possibly be expecting to find with such a ridiculous search? I can’t even begin to imagine. Here is what I love about this one. The blog it lead them to is actually the perfect way to wrap up this particular post. With all these bizarre keyword searches leading people to things on my blog they most likely weren’t looking for, it seems fitting that this persons search guided them to the post Lost In Translation
Add A Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.