michaellunsford Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Okay, I'm looking through my traffic reports and am finding all kinds of weird search terms people have used to find me. They're mostly variations of my company name, or clients' names that I've done work for. I mean those spiders have really been crawling! Some search terms are four and five layers down. The funny thing is, I've optimized for terms like my city name and "web developer" but so few people have found me that way that those terms aren't even on the report. Here are a few of the oddest: "restaurant, bridge, oaks, shadows." Any other weird SEO stories? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 back when my old site was busy and when i was maintaining it, it used to really get some properly bizarre search terms - and some of them ranked very highly in google or MSN's results, with no cost or outlay. as i love stuff like this, i made a little script quite a while back so i could keep tabs on things like this. take a look for yourself: http://thedinnertimes.co.uk/sewatch.php many of the links no longer show any placement any longer, mainly because they were all under another domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 how do you track the keywords? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 how do you track the keywords? log all requests to the site, particularly $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] which shows the full URL of where someone came from. then you just parse out the keyword Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_chou12 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 oh!!! so for google: http://www.google.com/search?q=keywords you do something like explode ? and remove the "q=" then you get the terms? Ted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellunsford Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 as i love stuff like this, i made a little script quite a while back so i could keep tabs on things like this. take a look for yourself: http://thedinnertimes.co.uk/sewatch.php Oh my, hahaha. You've certainly got me beat on the weird and obscure. If you guys haven't seen his list, it really is quite amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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