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2009 Google Search Keywords Have Nothing to Do With Boomers

I try.

I really try to stick to my mantra of “stuff written for boomers or those who know one.” But Google says people weren’t searching for boomer stuff here … based on these keywords.

I should be pleased that a huge majority of traffic here apparently comes from regular readers. The keywords below are a pretty small part of the overall traffic.

WordPress has a new plug-in that uses Woopra which varies from Google Analytics. Should be fun to see how things change next year after a full year of getting stats from both.

About those of you searching for Going Like Sixty? Try this, it’s easier – my pith will automagically show up in your inbox. Subscribe to Going Like Sixty by Email.

1. glenn beck loses advertisers 3,632 – This was strictly a traffic baiter. It was back when Google ranked the top 100 search terms and I had a post going and just added this as an after thought.
2. magic jack 2,275 – Thanks late night infomercials!
3. la mode recto verso 2,017 – Everybody likes poop.
4. gm dealer closing list 1,810 – More search bait based on Google trends.
5. bugatti veyron 588 – I don’t have a clue why this got this kind of traffic. I guess I could drill down through the analytics, but I really don’t care.
6. florence henderson nude 505 – The post is about Shirley Jones posting nude for Playboy and Florence Henderson advertising a digital set top box.
7. gm dealership closing list 467
8. majic jack 462
9. going like sixty 419
10. big nipples 398 – Mary Louise Parker didn’t want to do nude bathtub scene because these prominent body parts.

2010 is the breakout year for GoingLikeSixty. Stand by, you won’t want to miss it.

Google Fail. Note to Readers: If Google is Down, Use Yahoo.


Google failed this morning for about three hours.

Google Search, Gmail, Google News, Google groups, Google AdSense, Google Analytics all were kaput.

The top three Google searches during the outage?
google down, google slow, google outage, …
from Google Hot Trends

1. google down
2. google slow
3. google outage

If you need a search engine, may I recommend DuckDuckgo.com?