irony house

One of the great things that WordPress does is track what search engine terms people use to find your blog. This is particularly useful if you are, say, selling something online. If, for example, I were hawking bargain-priced oranges and I found that people kept finding my site by searching “bargain apples,” maybe I would want to consider expanding into other fruits. Wait, does that make any sense? Whatever. I think you sort of understand what I’m talking about: the search engine term history is like free market research, albeit for a very specific and potentially useless segment of the market.

Anyway, here at the Friends House Blog, the only use of this function is amusement. I don’t care how people find our page, especially since most of the people reading it will be our friends. I can’t imagine why anyone who doesn’t know us would want to read this stuff, but if they do, more power to them.

But I digress. A lot. What I’m trying to say is, the terms people use to find our blog can be amusing. In addition to the seven searches for “friends house wordpress” (predictable), there was one search today which I find most excellent: someone made their way to the Friends House Blog by googling “taryn sass.”

Now, first of all, I have no way of knowing who this was, so don’t worry if it was you. Even if I wanted to judge you, I couldn’t. But the truth is, I don’t want to judge you. I want to shake your hand. You have made my life a little happier and actually induced me to type “taryn sass” into Google to see what comes up. Here’s a list of some of the more notable hits:

• The top page is from a University of Washington climate dynamics class. Taryn Sass is in group F.
• A hit from page two is an article on Taryn Manning: “Once the bad girl sidekick, this actress is heading for the front lines.”
• Taryn’s fashion blog reminds us all that “Milly is the quintessential label for uptown girls with a bit of sass.”
• On the Cumberland, Rhode Island Public Library’s website, there is a book review of Getting the Boot by Alyssa, age 13 which states in its plot summary that “Kelly really wants to study abroad in Italy over the summer. She is lucky enough to be admitted to the S.A.S.S. program, Students Across the Seven Seas.”
• Finally, on page six, The Friends House appears. I don’t know who waded through all these pages to find us. I’m just thankful they decided it was worth their time to check us out.

So, loyal readers, I invite you to try to find the wackiest search engine term which will turn up the Friends House Blog. When you find us in the results page, make sure you follow the link to our site or else it won’t register on our side. I will continue to check the search history regularly and will post the best terms I find there. Google-bomb us, baby!