I’m fascinated by blog stats, particularly search terms, which are often hilarious. So here’s a look at my top search terms and most-viewed posts for 2014:
My top posts in 2014:
- Chicken, leek and bacon mashed potato topped pie. This post from last year randomly started getting loads of views in October and has featured in my stats every single day since then. It was viewed a total of 365 times from 28 December 2013 to 28 December 2014.
- I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine. Usually this is my most viewed post, but this year it lagged behind with a mere 247 views. I wonder if that means teachers have stopped assigning it for GCSE?
- German Foods I Love and Loathe came third with 171 views, proving that you can never go wrong with sausages and potatoes 😉
- Sukie’s Cake Shop, Karlsruhe. A relatively recent post this one – I only wrote it in September. But it still managed a whole 164 views between then and now. Which just goes to show how few people are blogging about things to do in Karlsruhe!
- So You Want to Learn German? This post got 137 views. I just hope it was useful to someone…
And now my top search terms for the year
- The mysterious woods of whistle root pennell
- confuzzledom
- give me something to do
- rewe cafeteria frankfurt airport
- nagold old church
Nothing particularly exciting there – the good search terms are usually the ones that only come up once. But it’s still interesting to see what most people who end up on my blog are looking for.
And now, in no particular order, my five favourite search terms that have found me this year. None are quite as fun as last year’s, but luckily I’m easily amused 😉
- marketing xmas cards from ex colleagues
- playmobile wino
- linda the giant sausage
- mmm stinky foot
- xxx girl bum
Now it’s your turn… tell me about 2014 on your blog! Or alternatively tell me what your favourite search term is that’s led someone to you.
I just peeked at my stats. I don’t think I get all the info you do (or I don’t know where to look), but under the umbrella of “all time” and “search keywords”, I see “bed worshipping day tubingen”. WTH?? Who the heck seaches for “bed worshipping day tubingen” and why the hell was that person led to my blog?? 🙂
These are from the WordPress standard statistics page. I’m not sure how you would find out your page views on blogspot.
Haha, bed worshipping 😀
Bog stats, LOL! Two solid ones a day…?
Hahaha… ooops! Must be my inner German coming out. Two words: pooh shelf!
We’ve not got one 😦
Ha, I’ll have to check out those German posts, boyfriend is proud of his heritage lol!
And I took a blog break from March to December so… Oops.
Haha, your keywords are definitely hilarious! People found my blog searching for “der wind der wind das himmlische kind”, “give cow grass”, “i like rock letter”, “kann mir viel verstehen ich hoffe germ”. Aha.
Better to give a cow grass than bits of other cow anyway 😀
Ha ha! I just wrote a post on this too! 🙂 Can’t believe Linda the giant sausage came to you and not me 🙂 Best of luck with the blog in 2015 and Happy New Year to you!
I know… there are no Lindas on this blog, giant sausage or not!
I really must start that diet 🙂 After my fry-up haha!