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“Fairy Lovers” and Still More Weird Search Terms
Yep, it’s that time once again folks: time to round up all of the weird search terms! If you’ve missed the previous installments of my weird search term series, here they are:
1. “Why do People Hate Naked Men?” and Other Weird Search Terms
2. “The Spread of Kidness” and More Weird Search Terms
3. The Return of the Weird Search Terms
4. “Game of Thrones man hatred” and More Weird Search Terms
5. “Yes I Can Do” and Other Weird Search Terms
So what weird search terms are we up against today?
fairy lovers
mad brown girls porn photo
is it bad to read 100 pages in one day
5 hours to.read.100 pages
read to me the word lynburns
mad reviews
adult vacation partils
reading pages through 1 and 100
And the weirdest of all:
old building-ajacket-being escorted around by strangers
Any of these ones stand out to you guys? What are some of the weird search terms that you’ve received recently or not-so-recently?
The Best and Worst of September 2014
September was a slow month traffic-wise, with only 4,861 views in total and with about 3,401 of those being unique page views. That’s down from even August, which would be surprising except that the same thing happened last year. However, once schools start their novel studies of The Hunger Games I think I can safely expect more views on my usual articles.
So what were the best articles in this pretty pathetic month?
1. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
2. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
3. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
4. The Day an Author Suggested I Kill Myself
5. Discussion: The Most Overhyped Book (For You)
For the first time in a while, we have a discussion in the top five. Considering the topic, it’s not all that surprising, but it is nice to see something new up there. My author article about a certain jerk was also strangely popular, which leads me to believe that someone Googled his name and the word spread through their circle of friends. Bringing up the incident in question isn’t my favourite thing ever, but if it keeps future reviewers from being victimized, I don’t mind all that much.
And what were the worst articles this month?
1. Song of the Nile by Stephanie Dray
2. Parsifal’s Page by Gerald Morris
3. The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa
4. Short Story: The Princess of Egypt Must Die by Stephanie Dray
5. Now You See Them, Now You Don’t by Gordon Korman
Stephanie Dray is one of my favourite new authors, so it kind of hurts to see that two of her pieces of work were on the worst list. But I’m not going to worry about it too much unless her name remains consistently on the list, which no author’s has in the past. The ‘worst’ articles of the month change around, providing a nice contrast to the ‘best’ articles, which seem to never change. It’s always nice to know that there’s something predictable out there.
So how was the month of September for you guys, life-wise and stats-wise?
The Best and Worst of August 2014
This month was very bad posting-wise but now that the summer rush is done at work I think you guys can reasonably expect me to go back to my regular routine of daily posts. I just need to get back in the hang of things, starting today. As a consequence of my irregular posting, my stats were significantly lower than they were in July. I only received 5,308 views as opposed to 6,344 but I expect things to go back to normal this fall as everyone falls back into their routines (myself included).
Here are the top posts this August:
1. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
2. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
3. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
4. Discussion: Your School Reading Experiences
5. The Mad Reviewer 1,000 Follower Giveaway
None of these are all that surprising, really. They’re either previously popular posts that have maintained their popularity for months (or sometimes years!) or they’re posts that naturally would attract a lot of attention like reading in school or $50 giveaways. I’m definitely expecting my Hunger Games article to rise in popularity as kids start to do novel studies on the book this fall but I’m still predicting that Game of Thrones will reign supreme.
So what were my worst posts this month?
2. Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate by Emily Sandoz and Troy DuFrene
4. The Fires of Merlin by T. A. Barron
5. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
As usual, my reaction to the worst list is ‘meh’ at best. None of these have featured before and they’re either outdated posts like the first one or books that aren’t necessarily bestsellers at this point in time. There will be a new line up of ‘worst’ posts next month so I’m not going to lose sleep over any of these particular ones appearing here.
So how was your August? Did anyone go anywhere interesting on holidays?
The Best and Worst of July 2014
Yep, this is another Best and Worst of… installment that’s a little late but it’s better late than never. Especially considering all of the tech problems I’ve had recently (and am still having). My keyboard recently died on my desktop so now I have to use a laptop that is way too small for my long fingers. Oh well, things could be worse.
Sadly on the statistics front, July just couldn’t compete with the previous four record-breaking months. Now that Game of Thrones is done for another several months and school is out (so I don’t get hits on my Hunger Games articles as much) I expected my views to go down and I wasn’t surprised when I only received 6,344 page views with 4,568 unique views. Still, that’s much better than last July, which clocked in at 3,958 total page views. My site is continuing to grow in popularity so I can hardly complain about how tough I have it.
Well, what were the best articles this month?
1. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
2. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
3. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
4. Discussion: Who are Book Reviews For?
5. Discussion: Your School Reading Experiences
As with the previous four months, my Game of Thrones article gave me over half of the views I received and the other articles preceding it were far behind by comparison (3000+ hits compared to 100). My discussions did better than they usually do, mainly because I haven’t really posted discussions for a while since my tech problems started. Speaking of which, I still have to reply to all of those awesome comments!
So what were the worst articles in July?
1. The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady by Gerald Morris
2. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
4. The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey
5. The Secret War by Matt Myklusch
All of these are reviews this month, which is unusual, but at the same time it’s not all that concerning. They’re all books that have been out for a while so of course they’re not going to get the same amount of hits as newer books that are being talked about all over the internet. I don’t see any repeat offenders so I usually don’t get too worried about which reviews appear on the worst list.
Well, that’s how my July went: lower stats and tons of tech problems but still not too bad. Work is busy, which is good, but at the same time I look back on the slow days of winter with longing because while I’m ringing up customers constantly I’m not getting any cleaning or estimating done. Still, I can’t complain. How was your July?
The Best and Worst of June 2014
I can’t believe it’s July 6th already, but then again when you have tech problems time seems to fly. So yes, it’s a little late for my Best and Worst of article but I guess it’s better late than never. Other than my ridiculous tech problems June was actually pretty good. Work is picking up as the tourists flow into town and the weather is finally, finally starting to smarten up. Luckily I’m not in the part of Saskatchewan that’s flooded or has experienced tornadoes.
Anyway, here are the best five articles of June 2014:
1. Why Girls Hate Game of Thrones—A Rebuttal
2. How to Read 100 Pages in an Hour
3. The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
4. Your Open Book Promotion Thread
5. I’ve Been Invaded by Gremlins!
For the fourth month in a row, I have broken my monthly stats record! Instead of the 13,316 views of May, in June I received 14,198 views. As with the previous months, I have the TV show Game of Thrones to thank for that as my rebuttal article received 8,581 views or about 60% of my total traffic for that month. I have the hugely popular season 4 finale to thank for that, I think.
So what were the worst articles in this record-breaking month?
1. Graphic Novel Review: Batgirl Volume II: Knightfall Descends by Gail Simone
2. Discussion: Romance in YA Novels
4. I am More Than Just a Chronic Pain Statistic
5. The Best and Worst of April 2014
Meh, none of these are surprising or worrying. The only real trend I’ve noticed among the five worst articles is that Scott Westerfeld’s books seem to pop up a lot. It’s not because he’s not a popular author but maybe because I actually liked the books. I seem to get a lot more traffic from reviews where I didn’t like the book.
So how was your June?