Jul 14 2007

How Did You Get Here?

Category: PersonalChrisM @ 9:07 pm

No, not a request for people to leave comments involving various birds & the bees, under the cabbage patch or stork stories…

I have recently been researching (doesn’t that phrase sound so much better than ‘trawling through my boring server logs 🙂 ? ) which terms people have been using when they arrive at my site from various search engines.

Most of them could be easily explained, for example…
Chris Merriman , Christopher Merriman , ???? ??????? & ????????? ??????? are all variants of my name that have appeared on this blog at one time or another. (I must remember to ask Ira to check my Russian spelling on those.)

Due to the way Russian people will attempt to translate my name from the Cyillic alphabet back to the latin original however, Kristofer Meryman is also a possibility. (Unfortunately, my Kazakh ID card is testament to this, so if anyone ever directly compares it to my passport, the christian names do not actually match up!) Also, I occasionally see people arriving here from using SilentlyScreaming or AntiSceptic as search terms, as these are my most often used forum/digg/social bookmarking membership nicknames.

Anyway, Kazakhstan Blog , Kazakh Blog and Astana Blog also were used, as well as Presents For Nick and I still seem to be indexed somewhere with my old blog title ( I Never Could Get The Hang Of Thursdays ), as a few searches still trickle in from variants of that Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy phrase, from search engines I have not come across before.

However, rabbit sreviews , 17 screen blockers and acid ran pictures really have me confused. The last one even more than the rest, as I can’t find any reference to those terms in any of my previous posts!

Oh, and yes, some of the above is a blatent attempt to rank a little better on some search terms, but I hope my readers forgive me, even if they do not find this information of particular interest. If you do find it interesting, first go and take a short nap, and see if you have recovered, if not, you may want to head over to my I Got Lucky page, which lists all the search terms that this site has (at some point in the past, if not currently) been at #1 when searched for through google!

Finally, if you have never left a comment on this blog before, I would be genuinely interested to hear from you, and especially how you found this site in the first place. Thanks…

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6 Responses to “How Did You Get Here?”

  1. Doris says:

    Hi Chris, Thanks for dropping by mine… hope you are having a good Sunday in Kazakhstan.

  2. Chris Merriman says:

    Indeed I am.
    Went to in laws, had a light lunch and a couple of shots of vodka
    Had a snooze (not much sleep last night)
    Had dinner with a couple of drinks.
    Went to friends house, who insisted on some ice cream and a few drinks.
    Had a hookah (sp?) – flavoured tobacco water pipe (baccy is all I’ll be consuming in this country)
    Came home, slightly sozzled.

  3. Irina says:

    It is double “?” in ????????, my dear! 🙂

  4. Chris Merriman says:

    ah I wasn’t sure how to write it in Russian, thanks

  5. kazakh visitor says:

    i found a link, while reading “disscusions” tab on Astana’s wikiTravel page.

  6. ChrisM says:

    Ah, nice to know. I still think their average temps for Summertime in Astana look weird, unless they’ve since been updated?