You may or may not know that at Typepad sites, like mine, one can check their "stats and referrers"...what that means is that I can see how many times my blog has been accessed in the last 24 hours and where that access came from (if you hit a link on someone else's page, say, but not if you type it in directly). I can also see how many times I have been googled and look at the google page to see what someone was looking for. I am INTENSELY DISTURBED that, since I posted my new header with explanation, I have seen so many google hits when someone typed in "N****d Boy". If you are one of those folks out there looking for n****d boys...ya ain't gonna find one here so just MOVE ON...and, get help...
I somehow am the #1 site for the query "sexiest man on earth"...How did I get to be the most popular site for that? Not sure. Other hits for me today were for "olliebollen" (little dutch donuts), "Finding Neverland Bloopers"," Lemony Snicket Pen Name" (again, I am the #1 hit), and "picture of a thinking bubble".
Besides people trying to find kids and p**n (don't want to use the word, or who knows who will come to visit me...the most disturbing query that found my blog was when last week someone typed in the name of my ex-boyfriend (who I had mentioned in the Sexiest man on earth post). Now I am wondering WHO was trying to google him and I sure hope that it wasn't him...I should, clearly, be more careful...
I know it's not funny, but really, you have to laugh. Gives me the creeps to think of what some people are doing with their laptops.....
Posted by: Loretta | Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 04:43 PM
How funny...and disturbing at the same time. I've oftentimes checked the stats to find strange queries as well.
And I was pleased to read about the definition of "olliebollen" -- it also happens to be the name of a very cute children's clothing store...check 'em out. olliebollen.com!
Posted by: Leslie (Rubber-Sol) | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 12:07 PM
Oh nevermind! It just won't print to your comments and I'm going to quit junking up your comments with my mess!
Phooey!
Posted by: Melissa | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 07:33 AM
Aw nuts. The no-robot script I "thought" I'd shared with you yesterday, didn't copy to your comments, I think because it's set off in brackets. Let me try this...just delete the quotes. Sorry about that.
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Posted by: Melissa | Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 07:32 AM
That 'sexist man on earth' search is funny, but strange. On my old blog I got google hits all the time. But since I started a new blog then my site doesn't pop up on google searches as much (in fact, only one so far, and it was for my blog title). Someone tried to explain to me once how google sorts their searches, but I still didn't get it. Either way, I'll know to be safe about what words I type out.
Posted by: Stephanie | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 09:54 PM
I didn't even realize that people could get to us with google. I will need to be more careful also. Thanks for the heads up!
Posted by: Margaret | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 09:24 PM
I'm like BP...totally oblivious to all this stuff. Which is probably best, because I think it would creep me out to be seeing the searches you're seeing show up. Hope you find a good fix.
Posted by: Marilyn | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 01:47 PM
Here's a no-robot script I need to put up myself. I've done the same search on my stats and it's so strange what ends up at my site.
Maybe this will work for you.
Posted by: Melissa | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 01:21 PM
Since I have a homemade blog-- I don't have any of these fancy things RSS, trackback, site stats, google etc--- I have no idea if anyone comes through unless they leave a comment-- and I think that is best. A few weeks ago I got a sick/weird email to bluepoppy email from a guy with a tooth fetish cause of one of my posts . . EEEEEw. Yeeky. But other than that? Ignorance is bliss.
Posted by: bluepoppy | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 09:51 AM
You might ask for advice about this in the I-Fri forum where there are lots of brillant, technically-inclined wonder people!
Posted by: wee | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 06:02 AM
With a user name like "Wee", you can almost imagine the google hits I used to get. Eventually I got so wigged out that I inserted a "no robots/no follow" html tag into my template and now my diary can no longer be googled. You might look into doing the same thing. I'm not sure how Typepad works, but there must be a similar tag that can be inserted. Good luck.
Posted by: wee | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 05:50 AM