I'm a rotten banana II

1 October 2007, 5:56 pm. View comments. Filed under Site-related.

So the previous story was about a guy referring to me as a "rotten banana" because he thinks I look black outside and act white inside. My responses roused a lot of drama between us (quite a whole heap of fun drama, actually) but that's not the story here.

It's just funny because other than keywords that actually relate to my site, the most search keyword(s) that has referred visitors to this site is related to that entry. How could there be several instances of "rotten bananas"? Why would you want to look up "rotten bananas" in the first place? For the past 30 days:

rotten bananas (5)
not a banana (4)
rottEN (2)
boys with bananas (2)
monkey+banana
bananas slugs

Thanks, funny people. I even made my site a destination for people interested in bananas. That's emphasising my new "nickname" isn't it?

But I still have trouble figuring out how Technorati showed I got linked by Sarah with the description of:

Comments Sarah on women over 45 are always hot Rilla on women over 45 are always hot Rilla on Commando award possibilities Amber on women over 45 are always hot one over the hill woman on women over 45 are always hot RSS

So what's that supposed to mean? "hot Rilla" or Sarah, Rilla and Amber "on women over 45 are always hot". Either way, dodgy stuff. I don't know, someone might like to step forward and clarify that for me.

Any funny searches and incoming link descriptions to share about your websites?

18 Comments »

Kaylee. 1 October 2007, 6:14 pm

Lmfao, you should have known you'd get in trouble with a wild x domain name

It's interesting how one can have an entry about something random and get so many searches for it. It happened with my baggy pants post.

I guess you're just asking for more bananas with this entry!
Eina. 1 October 2007, 6:20 pm

I googled "rotten bananas" and I found a link to a site (http://www.newstarget.com/001712.html) that says rotten bananas are the newest source of energy... uhm, yeah. o_o

Unfortunately, I don't have any funny search prompts to share because my site just ain't as cool.

And the Technorati blurb makes no sense at all...
Rilla. 1 October 2007, 6:59 pm

@Kaylee: Surprisingly, I did not have any x-rated ideas in my mind when I got my domain name. It's all you nasty mind-polluted people out there.

@Eina: Woot! My new argument comeback to being called a rotten banana!
Leila. 1 October 2007, 10:22 pm

Well, Seth made the idiotic mistake of putting somebody actual full name into an entry, and so far we've gotten three search referrals from people searching for that real life person. *groan*

Other than that, our blog is too young for strange search referrals. :[
Sarah. 2 October 2007, 2:22 am

Haha, that would probably be from my Recent Comments section of the sidebar. "women over 45 are always hot" was the title of one of my blog entries.
Aisling. 2 October 2007, 2:36 am

Ha ha I love search strings! I don't get anything too outrageous. Normally just stuff about Katimavik. Oh, and someone searched about an irrational fear and got my entry about how I'm afraid of ladybugs.
(Olivia). 2 October 2007, 6:22 am

lol, that's funny... I bet those people were looking around like "what the? where are the rotten bananas".

I didn't have any weird ones this month . Just boring old Olivia searches, lol.
Hev. 2 October 2007, 8:28 am

Umm...you will excuse me if I don't call you a "rotten banana". I still think you should just smack that male. But then you are not me and I think he should be very happy your aren't.

It is kind of funny how search engines put entries into the findings. It never ceases to amaze me what they put out sometimes.

BTW: Check my section on Color Lovers. Please tell me your honest opinion of my palettes. I have a weird sense of color schemes sometimes. I am afraid some of them just don't go together.
Hev. 2 October 2007, 8:30 am

Rilla, I forget to ask you please and thank you for the favor. Sorry my head is about to fall off in pain.

Please & thank you!!! Please & thank you!!! Please & thank you!!! Please & thank you!!! Please & thank you!!!
Rafia. 2 October 2007, 8:54 am

Rotten banana? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!

I don't have any stats thingers for my site because when I did, all the keywords used to acces my site were "Rafia" or actually, sometimes I got "rafia." Wow! I know.

Also my site is no longer listed on Google or Yahoo, so... yeah.
Alex. 2 October 2007, 12:19 pm

I've been called a plain old banana before. Oh well. If you search 'Alex Qin' the first search that comes up is my blog. I guess if any of my relatives feel like searching me, they'll find my blog. Oh goodie... I've had people searching for 'burnt plastic' before though...
Summa. 2 October 2007, 2:54 pm

LOL!

the search queries can be so random sometimes
Chien Yee. 2 October 2007, 7:32 pm

I don't really check my search engine stats. Some are just plain random and I always wondered why.

I've got one that said, "space in thousands" which was really weird =S
Lene. 3 October 2007, 8:37 am

Haha... maybe if you put the word "sex" in your meta you'll get more hits from search engines XD

Anyway, I don't get referrals from search engines because my blog is nofollow, although the other day I got a referral from altavista with keyword "lene"
Rilla. 3 October 2007, 9:56 pm

Guess what Lene? I will do that. Right. Now.
Tharticus. 9 October 2007, 2:42 pm

Besides being called a rotten banana, there is another term.

There is different term for people who are asian but inherit the white culture. Wanna know the term? Its from a hostess treat that is all yellow outside and white inside.

Yes, I'm one of them because i didn't learn my native language due to speaking problems. I'm still taking middle school chinese classes. D:

It's painful for me.

If you know me, look under HM forums.

*Is it too late to post?
Rilla. 9 October 2007, 3:27 pm

Why would it be too late to post?
Well, main thing is, I'm really too Asian to be considered a banana. I read and speak fluently in Chinese and most of my friends are Asian. Not like I mind so much, rotten bananas are cool.
Tharticus. 11 October 2007, 3:02 am

Considering that some people calling me a twinky or fresh banana (did you look up that clue i put in my last post?) it sucks espicially if a person didn't learn their own culture language. Because i live in a white neighboorhood, seems that its hard to understand my own language. I call that being white washed.

I speak little mandarin from what i learned from school and understand my family language which is Fuzhou, my family's native language. But i can't speak it.

Best way to learn languages is at a young age.

And Rilla, a rotten (completely) banana would be dark outside, and very yellow inside.