Keyword Searches: The Joy of Google Analytics

One of the fun things about having a blog is checking out the "analytics". The analytics are the details behind the visitors to the site. We use a free service provided by Google called "Google Analytics". At first I was kind of obsessed with the analytics, now it's just good entertainment. You can find out where visitors are coming from, what posts are most popular, how long visitors stay on the site, and all kinds of other interesting stuff. Perhaps the most fun, for me at least, is the Keyword Search. 

The Keyword Search tells you what people type into Google before they get to your site. About 20% of the time our visitors type "Little Seed Farm". However, the remaining searches are pretty unique. Here's some of my favorites:

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A Tale of Two Creameries - Part Two - Taylor Farm

Jon's got a great team out at Taylor Farm, thanks for the hospitality everyone!
You know you’re in VT when you show up at a small farm, immediately meet the farmer’s sister, get whisked into the family’s kitchen, across the dining room and onto the couch next to the fire. That’s exactly what happened to me at Taylor Farm. While Sweetbreads was absorbing Peter Dixon's cheese knowledge a few miles up the road, I was hanging out at Taylor Farm on the couch with owner Jon Wright. Pretty sweet. I’m kind of digging this “farm research” lifestyle.  
 
We first met Jon Wright while we were volunteering at the VT Cheesemakers Festival
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Junk Mail Reckoning

TWO DAYS worth of junk mail. Wonder what a month would look like?

We didn't always get so much junk mail. Maybe one or two letters per day, usually credit card offers, airline clubs or something small. Rarely was it catalogs that we didn't want. Recently, however, it's been a ceaseless barrage of catalogs. Someone must have gotten a hold of our address because now it's three or four per day, sometimes more. I'm not sure what other people do, but I was just in the habit of tossing the offers and catalogs in the recycling bin and not really thinking about it. Then earlier this week I got really annoyed with throwing all that paper out every day. Sure, I'd put it in the recycling bin, but still, what a waste.

So I decided the junk mail had met its fate. It was the day of reckoning. I save each one, look up the company on gethuman.com and call and remove us from their distribution lists. I'm not sure if it will help, but I hope it does. Who needs catalogs these days anyway? Isn't that what the interwebs is for?

 

 

 

Editor's Note: I still find the colorful and informative seed catalogs useful, so they will not be removed. Everything else is on the chopping block though.