You should have bought stock in this blog last July.

Through the roof! And what’s more, about half of the hits are direct requests instead of odd-ball searches. I’ve also received a whopping 631 referrals from http://snurri.livejournal.com/friends—do I have to pay a commission? If so, I would be quick to point out to Dave that this only accounts for 1% of all requests…

Unfortunately there’s been a sharp decrease in amusing search strings used to find the site. I find it amazing that the one-word search of “writing” is the number one string to find this site with 52 hits (why this site?) and the next most popular is my name at half that number. Queer.

A lot of searches are in relation to this topic that will not die and an alarming number of strings having to do with female body parts and their various attributes thanks to the ill-advised posting of these quiz results. The word “somnophilia” always generates a few inquiries as well.

Don’t get me wrong, I still get some amusing strings. “Schoffstall dies sunday,” “the world ends when you’re dead. until then you got more fuckin,” and and the duo of “blog jeff ford republican” and “gangs jeff ford” have been some recent ones that made me smile. There are also a smattering of searches that are on soccer (”donovan arena disgusting reyna”) and on stuff I’ve read (”grendel cage beowulf”) and places I’ve been (”death valley marble canyon”) but those searches might actually turn up something relevant, and what’s the fun in that?

The only downside to all the heady success of this website is that it’s unsustainable, just like the real estate bubble and dot com boom. I suppose I could follow the lead of corporate America and cook the books by embedding deliberately misleading phrases into this blog, like typing “Jenna Jameson lesbian” or “Jessica Alba nude photos” but that just wouldn’t be right. My public deserves better.

Current Mood: Ironic |
Currently Listening To – Various Artists – “Anthology of American Folk Music (Disc 1-A)”