I have been blogging for a while now – at least a few years in total. Over the years, I’ve found some pretty strange ways that people get linked to my blog. The strangest ways are always things that people type into  search engines. The search engine somehow finds something seemingly relevant in my blog and puts it up as a result. Some of the keywords people have typed in and then found my blog in the search results are ridiculous.

1. karikatur inflation - Now, I have no idea what this means, nor do I want to know. Shockingly, these keywords somehow led to my blog and apparently, a good chunk of my traffic came from this search term. I might just be out of touch with the world and missing some obvious slang here, but I think it’s just gibberish. Please correct me if I’m wrong and enlighten me on this new slang. I considered the fact that a couple people misspelled ‘caricature’ and randomly put inflation at the end of it, but I still don’t see why and more importantly, how in the world this led to my blog.
2. doing the splits flexible – I must have done a blog post on gymnastics or something way back when, but I really can’t recall writing anything like that. I suppose that I occationaly blog about figure skating, but isn’t this oddly specific?
3. fantastic contraption walk cow - Yeah, I have no idea how this one got up in the rankings of getting traffic to my blog. I know that I recently blogged about games. I think that’s where the ‘fantastic contraption’ keyword came in, but seriously, ‘walk cow’?
4. cow inflation art - I think this is supposed to be a combination of the blog title, Cow Print, a blog rant that I posted a while ago with the topic of art, and a recent post about inflation. Why multipule people decided to Google the three terms together? – I have no idea.
5. roller coasters games – Again, this probably traces back to my Top 10 Games For The Non-Gamer post.
6. nice thing about the person who sent this - I honestly have no idea where this might have come from. It’s possible that this was part of a direct post that I made, but one would think that none of those words would be very attractive to search engines.
7. brainage for pc - I can assure you that this isn’t one of those trick tags to get traffic to a blog, seeing as though I’m not a very big fan of BrainAge in the first place. Someone who got eventually linked to my blog thought of something pretty interesting, there. If you didn’t know already, BrainAge is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS system.
8. cartoon inflation feed anime – The word ‘inflation’ must be a popular search term. It at least brings a bit of traffic to my blog, I suppose. One of my blog posts is titled Cartoon Inflation, but it isn’t all that relevent to anime, even though it is a video post. I don’t know where the ‘feed’ came from.
9. download computer games – I’m actually not surprised at all by the search terms – I’m just wondering how in the world they led to my blog.
10. things that go up then down – I did write a list poem with this very same title a while back, but again, I didn’t think that these terms strung together even gave you search engine results.