you know those googlers who wander to your blog and you have NO idea how their search terms got them there?
well, i had one of those sunday:
“how can i time travel backwards”
HUH??!!!!!
dear time traveler:
i don’t know how to travel backwards in time, although i do believe that its possible, atleast VISUALLY. if you can go faster than the speed of light you could theoretically see things in backward motion. i don’t know if this will pull YOU backwards in time, but maybe you can watch things from the past. problem is, i’m not sure if anyone has yet to figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light while being able to see as well…
so, um, good luck with that.
mandy
have any random googlers wandered over to your blog lately?
yeah, i’ve got a post in the works with whole list of odd searches… here’s a sampling of some random ones: souvenir water bottles, gangsta gloves, mezik virus, and one of my favorites… lessons for virgins. ha!
This brings up a pressing question of mine. Hopefully I won’t sound too dumb if I ask…How do you see the google searches that lead to your blog?
not dumb! wordpress has a feature in the admin backpages that show us how people wandered in. its not exhaustive, but it gives an idea… i’m not sure if blogger has that feature, but you could probably set up a sitemeter account & run it through there. i haven’t set up sitemeter, but it seems to have a lot of traffic monitoring features.
alece: lessons for virgins? looking forward to your response on THAT ONE!!!! i might just need to search your blog to see what they came up with.
i guess our lack of children after 7+ years makes people think i’d be an expert on that subject. a while ago, a pastor’s wife asked me “so how’s your abstinence going?” ha ha ha. she meant to say “abstinence program”, but it was MUCH funnier without it!
a couple stick out from the recent list:
“girl worship” – no comment
“splitting the atom made simple” – maybe that was you’re time traveler. in the future they discover worship leader’s blogs held the secrets of the universe
J M: obviously, the secret to time travel is girl worship leaders!
alece: i’m speechless…. speechless!
funny!
Yeah….my husband, my braces…???? Hmmmm….
i don’t think i want to go back! I mean i had fun and all, but seriously, I did not do well in Jr. high!
natalie: SO TRUE!!! i don’t wanna go back either. but i’m also scared to go forward. can SOMEBODY hit the pause button!?!?
Dear Mandy’s google searcher:
Sadly outside of a miracle time travel is impossible. On second thought, it would be possible, but you would most likely die instantly upon reaching your past destination. The reason is we are traveling through space at a relatively high speed. The earth travels around the sun at about 15 miles per second and the sun travels around the the center of the Milky Way at about 3000 MILES PER SECOND. So even if you were to travel back in time just one minute, you would still be around 180,000 miles from where the current position of the Earth would be. Just floating in space…
Dear Time Traveller:
you should DEFINITELY listen to Damon. he graduated from college without ever having studied. and i believe he made DANG GOOD grades.
he knows what he’s talking about.
mandy
By the way, if you aren’t a wordpress blogger and have your own site or something, use google analytics to track all sorts of stats, including search sources. Its free, like everything else google.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have any truly weird searchs.