Weird Search Terms

A while ago I wrote a blog post: The Secret to increasing blog traffic. I’d had a spike in my visitors and had just blogged about dating disability style, so attributed the rise to people searching for disability (it couldn’t have possibly been the word dating).

Gesso sleeping upsidedown

A random photo of Gesso which has nothing to do with banshees or belly button lint

At the time, a few of you wrote and told me of your bizarre search terms hitting your blogs. Flossie found there are a lot of people out there searching for ‘stationery’. Oldcat pitched in with visitors to her blog searching for ‘Dragon Man and Rat Woman Love Connection’.

Well, this weeks sees some new peculiarities coming up in my search term stats. There’s little I can say other than print them. They have me mystified.

  • Belly button line preservation society
  • a little dodgy purple giraffe, and
  • cloak banshee ninja madness covered in fur.
It seems cloaked banshees ninjas must be popular – I got that one twice this week! What’s the strangest search term ever to hit your blog?

Oh my whiskers!

Tonight, the blogging community is adrift. Many souls are pacing floors around the world waiting for the Daily Post to upload the weekly photo challenge theme. Someone’s tardiness seems to have caused quite a stir. I bet there’s someone running around the daily post office this very minute in a panic ‘white rabbit style’.

[I'll be] executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets.

To avoid any untimely deaths, I propose the theme should be ‘late’.

This would allow everyone to spend the week trying to find rabbits in waistcoats with pocket watches. I looked briefly for one; failed; and decided I’d upload a cat photo instead.

Saffron waits for the weekly photo challenge theme to be anounced

Kreativ Blogger Award

I have just received this award from Eldy, who was one of my word submitters for the 42 word story challenge. Thank you Eldy!

Apparently on receipt of this award it is customary to:

1)Select six blogs to receive this award  

2) Share ten things that your readers don’t know about you.

Here’s a few blogs I’ve been enjoying recently:

For a wonderful weave of words: Megans Manifesto.

For portraiture full of warmth: Richard Radstone.

For sarcasm extreme: Robotic Rhetoric.

For a prolific photographer with an eye for the ‘everyday’: Jesse Jaca. I particularly love the weekly photo challenge ‘between‘ entry.

On the dressmaking front: I get a kick out of you and Twinkle Sparkle Shine.

As for 10 things that my readers don’t know about me… this is going to be a challenge!

  1. I have very small ears
  2. I have hair on my toes which makes me look like I have wookie feet
  3. Once upon a time, I played the piano but I have a poor sense of rhythm so stopped.
  4. I am an Australian ‘mutt’ of English, Scottish, Irish, Danish and Chilean ancestry (all of which were at least 4 generations ago).
  5. My partner has a pine cone collection.
  6. I’d love to drive the Great Ocean Road
  7. I’m such a lousy housekeeper that it takes 4 people and the length of 2 star wars films to clean my one bedroom unit.
  8. I’m not afraid of spiders
  9. I know the deafblind alphabet
  10. Apparently I talk in my sleep. Sometimes.

A masterclass in boobs

I recently discovered a blog called Megan’s Manifesto. It should be called Megan’s Laugh Yourself Silly And Be In Awe Of Her Talent Blog.

She can take subjects I’d be too scared to touch and create an engaging, meaty read. One of my favourite posts is simply called “On Boobs“.

The first paragraph reads:

Do you wanna know why I’d make an awful hippie? Firstly, I strongly believe Janis Joplin’s crap on a tie-dyed stick. Secondly, bell-bottoms make my already huge hips gargantuan. Thirdly, I’m pretty much epileptic near disco balls. And finally, I can’t make it through the day without an industrial strength, under-wired bra holding The Twins firmly in place. The free-wheelin’ beatniks might disagree, but as far as I’m concerned, dancing in the streets is off-limits until everything in and around the chest area’s been properly secured. You never know when an overly rhythmic boob might knock you out cold.

Are you hooked? Go on and read the rest of the post and prepare to be entertained.

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