“What, never? No never! What, never? Well Hardly Ever!”–Sir William S. Gilbert (HMS Pinafore)
Sir William S. Gilbert
Whoever said that anything worthwhile is not easy must have been talking about Google. Really!? Yes, really. Search term haiku continues to increase in difficulty, as Google reports fewer and fewer of these terms. On a recent day, for example, I was thrilled to see on my WordPress stats page that some 23 hits on this site had come by way of search engines. I was, however, horrified to see that only three of the actual terms used were reported.
I don’t give up so easily. So even as I try never to break my own rules for this genre, using only verbatim excerpts from terms that found this blog, let’s just say I follow them with a fortitude worthy of Sir William S. Gilbert. You can see the full detailed rules in a previous post. So here goes nothing. (note: As a result of my Equation of Inane Celebrity Meme Virality being Freshly Pressed a year or so ago, this blog continues to get many “meme” related search hits. Read that original post here.)
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One Potato
Paris Hilton meme
show white girls pussy photo
she swallowed a ring.
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Two Potato
Lindsay Lohan meme
a chubby mariachi
Al Capone female
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Three Potato
Life is wasted meme
You can’t hear me, can you?
Smartphone distraction
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Rutabaga
Celebrity meme
Mr. Rutabaga Head
funny to Google
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More
Heisenberg name meme
when geeky scientists can
exchange sapouse tube**
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**SIC, and as Red Skelton used to say, “I just do ’em, I don’t explain ’em.”
The Millennium Conjectures™ 
Impressive – my favorite is the last one of course. What is the “harvesting period” in this case? I currently go for a quaterly poem (otherwise it would be hard to keep track of which terms I had already used).
But the next period would be Q4, and Google started encrypting search terms about in October. My results look dire so far – thus I am jealous 😉 I think I will resort to the search terms provided by webmaster tools though here it is even harder to “tick off the used ones”. But on the other hand spam has become much more suitable for poetry.
I use quarterly terms as well. Please tell me how to use webmaster tools with WordPress to get more terms! I prefer to stick to search term poetry because it is relevant to my blog–and it is absolutely hysterical to read some of the things that actually fine me!
The integration of webmaster tool is described here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
The downside is that Google will not let you know the exact number of clicks unless it were more than 10 clicks per months. An entry in webmaster tools could correspond to an “impression” also (your results just showing up, but the linked not clicked).
Thanks, Elke. All I want for Christmas is more search terms to haiku with. If this helps I like it!
And to think I got to witness the genius Haiku master at work! 😀 xoxo
Thanks, sis. And thanks for your consultation on the matter! 😉