WordPress (our blogging software) provides a web page of interesting stats. The one (and only one) that is frequently funny is Search Engine Terms. It lets you know when people come to your blog from a search engine and what exactly they searched for.
The thing that I find funny isn’t usually what they searched for, but that when presented with a list of possible web sites that match their search, they chose ours. Here’s the last 30 days of searches that ended up at kbranch:
- ditch digger
- brad gale park address
- chiles
- toyota ranch truck
- locking mailbox
- solar panels on water tower
- green constructin
- excavation process
- kbranch
- mailbox design coeurdalene
- ranches with water towers
- set up your own solar ranch
- off grid water tower
- solar pumps for ranch
- hog fire douglas az
- hog fire maps douglas arizona
- house design in gale force winds
- youtube soycrete
- hog canyon,peloncillo,arizona,map
Ditch digger – I can hardly imagine anyone searching for this. Assuming someone really did, what did they think they would find at kbranch? Were they looking to hire someone? I’m not sure Karen is exactly the body type you expect when you’re looking to hire a ditch digger.
Solar panels on water tower – It’s true we have a water tower and that we will have solar panels. Not that I see them mixing.
House design in gale force winds – This at least I can imagine someone searching for; it seems interesting. Still, you have to wonder how many pages of results there were before we popped up. And then, what could they have been searching for, so tirelessly, that they used what must have been their last hope up clicking on our site. I feel I let them down.
Locking mailbox – I confess that I have spent a lot of time using this exact search. I know what kind of results are near the top-it’s places selling mailboxes. I would be shocked if we’re in the top 5000 results. It boggles my mind that anyone could dig deep enough to reach us this way.
Solar pumps for ranch – This is not so funny, as it reminds me of something funny. Someone (I’m guessing the same person that did this search) sent me an email requesting a quote for a bunch of solar equipment.
Hog fire maps douglas arizona – This is a search Karen and I both did when there was a fire near Douglas. It’s no wonder our site matched this. There was very little information on the fire anywhere.
-brad