The Long Tail Lives: 5 Strangest Search Referrals Today
By Matt McGee on May 2, 2007 in Site News
Just have to share this: Here are the five strangest search referrals to Small Business SEM today, as discovered by browsing through my Hit Tail account.
- Google: teeth hurt (refers to this post)
- Google: teeth hurt when i run (ditto)
- Google: antonio banderas “look-alike” (refers to this post)
- Google: the princess and me (refers to this post)
- Google: signs that it is time to break up (refers to this post)
Who can beat those?
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5 Comment(s)
By SoloSEO on May 3, 2007 | Reply
We’ve had some pretty wild ones too…
best sugar cookies
shish kabob recipe blog
cookie experiments
mccain chocolate chip cookies
hillary clinton pranks
are zunes good or bad
killer of ones wife (whoa…scary)
another word for perfect (nice compliment?)
huh ah oh
risks of buying used shoes (eww…gross)
birthmark cream
acid fizz
do it yourself liposuction (no we don’t recommend this)
By sheseltine on May 3, 2007 | Reply
Well, given the name of my blog you could expect some feline references…
how many different tigers are there?
tigers pencil sketch
tigers sex (surely you just lift the tail to find out which)
tigers doing sex
silly tigers
tigers how they run
descriptive words for tigers
are there tigers in panama
then there are some non-tiger related ones…
should i kill myself, or have a cup of coffee
refrigerator freshener
nashville escort search engine (interestingly the post has no mention of Nashville)
By st0n3y on May 3, 2007 | Reply
I get lots of traffic for “pingu dance”. I did a single post on that a while back and its still ranking #4 on Google. I also get traffic from “cover the earth logo” and, not suprisingly, “the apprentice” and all it’s variations.
By Miriam on May 3, 2007 | Reply
I’m laughing.
We get lots of traffic for ‘bad websites’ because of an article I wrote a few years back about this topic. Maybe a little weird for a web design company to be getting traffic for this.
Apart from the funny aspect of this post, it also shows how the long tail can certainly bring in folks who are NOT looking for what you’ve got, so it’s a bit of a cautionary tale.
Good post, Matt.
Miriam
By Matt McGee on May 3, 2007 | Reply
(Yikes … now this post will start to rank for that phrase. Just you watch.)
And Miram — very good point about the long tail often bringing in useless/unwanted traffic, too. Very true.