Surprising Search Terms

Surprising Search Terms - How Do I Find Thee?

(... Let me count the ways ...)

I began writing blogs because it was a way to share thoughts that do not fit the Zingers format or a book. Writing is fun for me and it is another tool to use in helping people. I believe that is calling; what I am supposed to do with my life. If it isn't, it certainly gives me daily satisfaction. I do not do it to gain fame, which I don't have, or wealth, which I also do not have: I do it a very selfish reason: It gives me joy and pleasure and helps me over the rough spots.

Every month, my web master friend, Bill Austin, sends me the statistics on this blog and our web site readership. The internet is a magic world populated with gremlins, spiders and other search engines that pick up words, phrases and maybe even full sentences and stuff them into hidden directories you and I never see. These are then picked up when a person puts some of the words into the search box of Yahoo, Google or some other search engine.

You have to scroll down the statistics to see them and they can be surprising. In October, for instance, one visitor arrived at the site when the search engine thought he said, "my mind is fried." Others included; "Oldsmobile," "hair zingers .com," "en-my," "ferarri," and "examples of perjury." My mind is fried and examples of perjury came from a blog article, but none of the others did.

Of course there were many words that I used in blogs and Zingers and even the book excerpts on the site. There were several variations of my name, also. The one that really makes me laugh is "who is wes zimmeman." The first five search results on Google were about me, even when the name was spelt wrong.

That one intrigues me....

Wes Zimmerman