Cool Tools

It kind of amazes me how many cool things are out there, and the fact that they are free. For example, Google lets you know all sorts of stuff about how people find your sites etc, including your blogs.

Does it scare me that a major search item on my home site is "teenage boy streaks"? Slightly, but at least that isn't the phrase on the site, I just happen to use those
three words when describing puking down the side of a car.

Of course topless hits it the most :-) I bet those searching for that never expected the pic they find there!

Pretty easy, if a bit hard to find for those not quite inclined.

So, to see how google sees your site, simply follow these instructions:

1. log in to google.com. If you don't have an account, create one.


2. click on the My AccountU in the upper right corner.


3. click on Webmaster Tools under My Products on the right.


4. you will see a Dashboard, with all your sites. If your site (or blog) is not listed, enter the URL in the box and click Add.


5. Verify your site. The instructions are simple for sites you actually code up - but how do you verify a blogger site? Click the Verify link, then select the Add a meta tag dropdown.


6. Open a second browser window, and go to your blogger dashboard.


7. Click settings for your blog, then choose the layout tab


8. Click the Edit HTML link


9. go back to the verify page, and copy the verify meta tag they display.


10. In the Edit Template box, you should see a tag about 1/3 of the way down. Paste the meta tag on a separate line below this tag.


11. click the SAVE TEMPLATE button.


12. back on the verify page, click the Verify button.

If all my instructions made since, it should say you have verified it.

Now got to Statistics on the left, and top search queries, to see what things point to your site!

For February, people found this log all sorts of weird ways:

#	%	Query	position
1	9%	nutritional value frickers	8
2	9%	twisted minds humble	8
3	9%	cub scout pack 840 west carrollton	10
4	6%	annette wild clairvoiance	4
5	6%	frickers weightwatcher points	4
6	6%	inside an egotistic mind	4
7	6%	stubborn shit will not wipe up	5
8	6%	frickers nutrition information	7
9	6%	poems about kindness f0r weakness	9
10	6%	wall chair lifting women can men "can t"	9
11	6%	mind way	10
12	6%	twisted minds lafayette	12
13	6%	twisted mind blog adult	16
14	6%	keeping it twisted	28
15	6%	literary figures who are loyal and generous	53
16	6%	nurgle "t shirt"	115

Some of my readers are just as weird as I am!