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Search-engine queries show TravelGolf.com bloggers' dark side

Tuesday October 25, 2005 | 08:41:01 am 254 words, 1831 views

Being a TravelGolf.com blogger is a job full of perks. We get to travel all over the globe to play golf and write about it, for one. I mean, that’s a seriously cool perk. But there are others, like seeing Cheap Bastard spend an entire evening trying to hook up with Heather McMichael at the office Christmas party. It was disturbing, but you couldn’t take your eyes off of it.

Another perk is that we get to see random search-engine queries people used to get to our blogs. They don’t give out anything else, like IP’s or anything personal, just the query that an anonymous person typed to get to our pages, which is supposed to help us in some way that none of us has quite figured out yet. It’s basically a function that is completely ignored. Until now.

Take Chris Baldwin’s blog, for example. Here’s what someone typed into Google and ended up getting to one of his blogs.

Men obsessed with women’s underwear!

Is that great or what? I didn’t even embellish it with the exclamation mark, that was the actual query. How about this search, which proves that Jennifer Mario is quickly becoming the world’s foremost expert on Michelle Wie.

Michele Wie drinking water

Tim McDonald gets a lot of people looking for precise information, and finding it in his blog.

Hairy armpits

Finally, people have found my blog with a variety of queries, but a recent one really hits home with me.

Why won’t God help me

–WKW

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Comment from: Kristen [Visitor] · http://golfchick.blogspot.com

Fun post!

I don't know who you are or where you came from, but it sure seems like you emerged about the time Rebel Blogger fell off the face of the earth. Is this some kind of marketing experiment by Travelgolf?

And is the Cheap Bastard on vacation or did he fail to pay his DSL bill?

Permalink 10/26/05 @ 12:39

Comment from: Ron Mon [Member]

Wait a second. What is this about "travel all over the globe and write" about golf? That wasn't part of my contract negotiations. Mine said "all over the county" and that was it. Since then, I have golfed in a cemetary, a retirement village, two school playgrounds, and a nursery. The best turf by far was on the nursery grounds, although the trees and tulips interfered. The school playgrounds had too many immovable permanent obstructions (come to think of it, how would you classify kids, substitute teachers, and monitors under the rules of golf?), while the retirement village was like the Phoenix tour stop: one big, loud party. I guess I enjoyed the cemetary most, as I received favorable bounces off tombstones, crypts, and the crematorium. An added plus were the personal histories on every tee box.

--RonMon

Permalink 10/26/05 @ 23:19

Comment from: William K. Wolfrum [Member] · http://www.worldgolf.com/blogs/william.wolfrum

Why thank you GolfChick. Though let me say, I'm fairly disappointed that my prior work at The Northern Light in Anchorage and The Adelanto Bulletin in Adelanto, Calif. isn't familiar with you. The smaller the market, the bigger of a star I am.

As for Rebel and the Bastard? Who knows. There has been a rule in effect that those two should never meet in person, because they have a penchant for getting together and plotting things. But it's usually stuff like TPing someone's house. They really get a kick out of that.

At let us not forget the two most important syllables in the golf industry today -- Ron Mon. By the way Ron, that wasn't a golf course you played, it was, in fact, just a cemetary. We're still getting calls about that.

--WKW

Permalink 10/27/05 @ 06:45

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