Thursday, October 11, 2007

'English Rain Hat Boys'

Playing around with the Google Analytics for English Dreaming, English Rain is interesting. I love to see what random phrases typed in by Internet explorers send them hurtling toward this blog. It is strangely gratifying to know anyone typing in ‘Evil Cockney’, ‘Avenue Q Scientology’, ‘MV Magdeburg’ ‘Albanian Freemasons’ or ‘Essex backwaters’ might end up here, However, I cannot help but feel those who happened on English Dreaming, English Rain by entering ‘Best vegetarian sausages’ or ‘Women fondled by men in latex gloves’ would have gone away hugely disappointed. I can only pity the poor souls who arrived by the phrases ‘There’s no aphrodisiac like loneliness’ and ‘Wanking with electrodes attached’.

Among my recent favourite surreal keywords that have directed traffic to these pages are ‘Toe wrestling’, ‘Lime green Adidas tracksuit’ and ‘English rain hat boys’. As glorious as they are, nothing beats the fact that English Dreaming, English Rain is one click away for those looking for ‘Charlie Brooker wanking for coins’ or ‘Badger deterrent’. I may not provide any Googlewhacks, but there are not that many places around where ‘Plinky plink’ and ‘Ernest Shinwell’ or the ‘Great Serpent Mound’ and ‘Mighty Boosh Test Card F’ live together.

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7 Comments:

Blogger Nina said...

OMG that's funny. And I'm still back in the paragraph laughing at "Avenue Q Scientology." :)

4:25 PM  
Blogger Région Frontière said...

This is brilliant! I'll have to try and find that google thing to play with my blog.

5:31 PM  
Blogger cal said...

Hilarious but you make it doubly so, due to your pros.

I'll need to have a look at my Google Analytics again it does not seem to give me that information. I rely on other information gathering means.

I learned my lesson early on when one article I wrote-ed was a play on the song/film Born free, free as the wind blows. I had no end of people looking for "free born" Now wasn't that nice of me not to put the actual words I used. Otherwise you would inundated by the same clientele that I was.

I was especially please when people Googled for insurance by Sheilas Wheels and my site was the first on the list. Miz wheels did not show up anywhere, they have remedied that now however... I'm rambling sorry.

9:48 PM  
Blogger Greenlee's Forest said...

David, this is hysterical. I now must log into my analytics account and find out what words involving boobs & babes are being used to get to me. :)

3:23 PM  
Blogger David said...

It was the wonderful Crazylegs who switched me onto the fun you can have with Google Analytics. I thoroughly recommend playing with it to all bloggers. I am already chuckling at the prospect of all the disappointed boobie searchers who have ended up in Greenlee’s forest.

6:12 PM  
Blogger zirelda said...

Ok. This is the second post today that's referenced Google Analytics. I'm going to have to check into it.

3:58 PM  
Blogger Chandira said...

That made me fall off my chair laughing.. I love those weird Google searches. I haven't done one in ages. Best ones I ever had were "1960's Horse Porn" and, strangely, (as if that wasn't!) "Yucatan rope dance genitals". Neither of which have I ever written about.

7:04 PM  

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