A few months ago I started collecting stats on the traffic coming to Soliloquy in Blue. Today I was poking around discovered some amusing things in the list of search terms that had brought people here. Happily, none of them were creepy and disturbing.
MOST COMMON:
“Twilight review”
This is the most popular search term by far, representing about 6% of the people directed here from a search engine of some kind. It almost makes me want to read the sequels to help drive up traffic, but I like my braincells too much for that.
Where can I read ____?
It’s called a book. You can buy one or check it out from the library. Crazy concept, I know. If I added up all of the entries in this category, they’d probably eclipse Twilight.
People looking for actual soliloquies
Most of these are pretty normal, though some stand out, like “most profanity in a soliloquy,” which I assume is some kid who wants to swear in class and get away with it. Others can’t even spell the word: “siloquy on twilight” (nope!) and “siloliquy on twilight” (try again!), for example.
People with a book report due tomorrow
These procrastinators want me to do their work for them. Examples include “who are the main characters in the book the king’s arrow,” “theme of life as we knew it BOOK,” and “point of view in anne of avonlea.”
THE RANDOM
papillon swanjun
Wow, someone specifically wanted what I said about something! That’s kind of awesome. (Also, there’s only one of these.)
arrancar boob chart
Um, what?
nicholas sparks writes bad books
No argument here!
Share your own kooky search term experiences in the comments below!
Heh, my favorite search term hit of all time will probably always be, “Stan Lee Ultimo awful”.
I frequently get hits from people searching for scanlations of something I’ve reviewed, which makes me sad. Also, I feel sad when people hit my site with search terms that are questions I know will not be answered by the page they hit, but that I *could* answer if only they’d ask! 🙂 I’ve actually written blog posts that were inspired by search terms like that.
I have had a couple like that, mostly people looking for spoilers about couples in shoujo series. There was a NANA one in there, and I was grateful it didn’t spoil me!
Oh, here’s one that qualifies:
real pictures of miss jane pittman
I hope they read my review of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, wherein I write that Miss Jane seems so very real it’s no wonder that people think she’s a real person. But the truth is that the work is fiction, hence no “real pictures” of her exist.
By far the best search term anyone used to find my blog: “Read Love Chick Manga free.” I’m guessing that person read a very bad scanlation of Otomen. Or has the attention span of a gnat.
Hahaha. I vote for gnat! 🙂