{"id":695,"date":"2009-08-09T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-08-09T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:48:37","slug":"search-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/search-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Analytics<\/a> rocks.\u00c2\u00a0 I use it to keep track of traffic on all of the Timely Persuasion<\/em> related sites, getting a decent heads up when the book is referenced on blogs, message boards, tweets, or elsewhere online.<\/p>\n

The most fascinating\/interesting thing is looking at the search terms people enter that lead them to find the book.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t pretend to be an SEO expert.\u00c2\u00a0 I just find some of these to be quite amusing.<\/p>\n

My all-time favorites are below:<\/p>\n

what does a ink blot of a frog look like<\/strong>
\n(This one is so random it just makes me laugh.)<\/p>\n

is 3rd person more persuasive in a novel than 1st person
\n<\/strong>(TP is first person all the way, though as I’ve said before I’ll explore third person more in my next book.)<\/p>\n

bro & sis – livingroom tryst<\/strong>
\n(Whoever searched for this was probably disappointed to stumble across Timely Persuasion<\/em> instead of what they were really looking for.)<\/p>\n

dirty bowling team names<\/strong>
\n(This one I’m sort of proud of…)<\/p>\n

help he-mmph<\/strong>
\n(Another one where I can’t really figure out what the expected result was, but I’m glad I was found because of it.)<\/p>\n

what makes a tennis ball travel so far
\n<\/strong>(Probably something the narrator of TP would ask…)<\/p>\n

guns n roses time travel<\/strong>
\n(Seems someone has the same ideas about Izzy Stradlin that I do…)<\/p>\n

mike doughty guitar secret code
\n<\/strong>(A question I always had, answered here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

persuasion speech on why jimi hendrix is the best of all time
\n<\/strong>(I love the Internet…)<\/p>\n

slander the buddha
\n<\/strong>(Another random one that’s mildly amusing.)<\/p>\n

old hungry charlie’s syracuse
\n<\/strong>(Glad to help out people searching for my old college stomping ground.)<\/p>\n

novels similiar to “replay”
\n<\/strong>(This one’s an honor to be associated with.)<\/p>\n

“hilarious online greeting cards”
\n<\/strong>(I guess this found my “someTPcards<\/a>” blog post.)<\/p>\n

movie with man who can travel in time who had lady hologram
\n<\/strong>(I don’t know what movie they’re talking about, but the actual search<\/a> yields tons of cool stuff!)<\/p>\n

writing a novel (the rules of prologues and epilogues)
\n<\/strong>(Rules are made to be broken.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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