Those of you who like to keep an eye on your blog’s statistics – and especially on your search terms – may have noticed that the number of terms actually getting through are becoming fewer and fewer. Instead, we are left with the ominous sounding “unknown search term”. This is because Google have started to encrypt most of their search terms, so instead of letting websites know what people were actually lookin for when they found then, Google now simply says “This Internet user found you via us but we’re not telling you how. ner ner ne ner ner” Here’s an example from my stats on a typical day. Note the ratio of actual search terms to the oh so useful “unknowns”:
Obviously there was only one thing to be done… I had to write another search terms post while there are still some there to write about! (By the way, searches via Bing and Yahoo apparantly still get through… but who actual searches using either of them?!)
Here are some of the best search terms that have found me over the past 30 days. Slim pickings I’m afraid… I suspect Google is keeping all the good ones to itself!
Naked at our age
Scandalous!
WordPress “a rubbish experience”
If you’re talking about the new reader I wholeheartedly agree!
What does Aldi bucks fizz taste like?
Like any other Buck’s Fizz I should imagine. It’s orange juice and sparking wine pre-mixed, in a bottle. How spectacular can it possibly taste?!
What’s worse than sheep?
I can think of a few things. Killer scorpions perhaps. Or giant spiders…
How to dress Germany
First of all, you’re going to need a lot of fabric…
How to know you’re turning German
I thought you’d never ask! Check out my post, you know you’re turning German when…
A green banana cross stitch
Nope, sorry. The best I can offer you is a bunny dressed in green sitting in the moon.
Deutsche Bahn punctuality.
Hahahahaha! Errmm.. I mean.. yes, of course. Deutsche Bahn is always punctual. (Except on days with a y in them, that is…)
What do you need to make upside gingerbread men?
1. Gingerbread men. 2. Hands to turn them upside down…
That’s it I’m afraid. Not too exciting, really. Google is already spoiling my fun!
There’s a few good ‘uns. I really like ‘What’s worse than sheep’. I’d love to be in that person’s head 🙂
Definitely!
How to dress in Germany…? Lederhosen mandatory, doesn’t everybody know that by now?!
But it wasn’t how to dress in Germany… it was how to dress Germany. Apparantly countries need clothes too…
Ah… I’ve not woken up yet…don’t forget to drape little doilies over the islands….
They’ll be needing hats and scarves soon 😉
How to dress sheep? Now there’s an activity I hadn’t thought of. You can buy little outfits for dogs, maybe designer sheep clothes will be the next big thing? 🙂
I am sooo going to get hits for that now!
It must be because it’s Monday morning, but I had confused ‘How to dress Germany’ and the picture of the sheep!! Still, it made for an interesting thought. Hopefully your next search terms post will be all about where to buy sheep’s clothing. 🙂
Hilarious! And shame on Google for ruining one of the fun things about blogging…
I know.. I’ll be so sad when all my search terms are unknown.
Oh wow, I hadn’t even realized that yet, but I had a185 unknowns yesterday!
Grrr, I hate them!!
I wonder why google is doing this?! It’s definitely ruining the fun… I’ll no longer know that someone stumbled across my blog by googling; Big Brazilan Butts 😛
LOL, mine are pretty tame compared to that 😀
I need to check this for my blog! Love the sheep one. 🙂
You should… I would love to see your search terms 😀
This is seriously unfair, Google! I shall also have to jump on the bandwagon before all the weirdness spilling out of people’s brains and onto Google are encrypted forever.
Naked at our age XD
Yes, everybody needs to do a search terms post as soon as possible 😉
I did wonder what age “our age” is 😀
LOL this is funny. but I doubt I will get anything because I refused to let search engines crawl my site
Aww, shame. Search engine terms are one of my favourite things about blogging!
Sheep are THE worst.
Worse than killer scorpions? 😉
Absolutely.
: )