Searching for Marla Collins & Bubs Daddy Bubble Gum

A while back I wrote about how a couple of wayward surfers had wiped out on my Web site while searching for nude pictures of Jo Frost (aka "Supernanny"). That piece has been running on SanityCentral.com for a couple of weeks now, so if you Google "jo frost nude" you will find it currently ranked No. 1. Just two comments about that: 1) you won't find any naked pictures of Supernanny if you do the search; and 2) you should be thankful for that.

This got me thinking about the search engine queries that led to my site. I should note that traffic to my site has more than tripled since it was first launched way back in January.  Back then the site was bringing in about 2000 'raw' hits a month -- 311 of which were counted as 'unique' visitors. Last month the raw figure was over 6000. A little over 800 of those were considered unique.

My site keeps a monthly tab of 'major' search engine queries but I haven't been following it until recently. One thing I noticed is that it misses quite a few of the searches that lead to my site. I mention this to underscore that what I am about to present you is in no way scientific or accurate.

Here then are the top 10 search engine queries to my site:

1. Lost in the Ivy
2. Randy Richardson
3. Marla Collins and/or Cubs ballgirl
4. Bubs Daddy Bubble Gum
5. 826 Chicago
6. Jo Frost nude
7. Freddy Jones Band
8. gum that goes squirt
9. Martinez News-Gazette
10. she sat on his desk and spread her legs

Okay, that last one just popped up on my log for the first time last night. How did that search lead to my site? I never wrote a sentence with those words in it (until now anyway) but all of those words appear in the first excerpt to my book, Lost in the Ivy, which is posted on my site.

So what does all of this tell you? Not much, really. Yes, there are some nutballs out there. But we all knew that already.

I suppose what it really shows is that the more obscure the topic the more likely it is that it will lead someone to stumble into your Web site.

So how long do you think it will be before someone out there searching for Insane Coho Lips or Teenage Radiation crash lands on my site? I'll keep you posted.

(For those who didn't grow up in Chicago in the late seventies, the Insane Coho Lips were the anti-disco army led by disc jockey Steve Dahl. Teenage Radiation was Dahl's band. Their biggest hit? "Do you think I'm Disco?")