It hasn't been quit a year since the first installment of one of my favorite things about blogging - the weird and bizarre search words that bring in viewers to Shine a Light Rose. And these aren't just those random ad sites that blatantly hype up your stats via computer generation in hopes of making me follow them back to their shady sources. No, it's the key words that proove that REAL PEOPLE occasionally pop on by. Lurkers who probably got lost. Welcome all! And I hope you stay! But uhm, what were looking for in the first place??
By the way, can I just get this off my chest? I'm a little embarrassed that the number one search that repeatedly crops up, and has kept this post in the No 1 spot for months(!) is my review of Taiwanese drama Easy Fortune Happy Life. Why? Because I completely skewered that show, and now that's probably the only impression some people have of me. Not that I care... *you lurkers you* Okay, but I do feel bad. It makes me want to cover more Twdramas and do it better. But, that requires watching better Twdramas, and at this point I'm not sure there are that many of them out there that I haven't already watched. Of those, I'm too intimidated to write a less than stellar review (I'm talking about you, Autumn's Concerto, and In Time With You).
Okay that's over with. Let's resume with my favorite 10 search words of the 2013.
# 10 Block B The Most Talented Group
Why what a great query. Yes they are the most talented group. Nope, I'm not biased either. Why is this here though, former lurker? Did you just need confirmation? If so, please check out my totally not biased assessment of them.
#9 Crack Summer's Desire
At least this person got the whole point of the show. Indeed it was crack. I'm not sure how good a quality crack it was, but to each his own. Would you like to find out a little more about this 'crack drama' now?
Continue on, please! More silly stuff to follow.
I get a special enjoyment at monitoring the traffic on my blog. How many hits per day, per week, what links brought people in, speculation about how many actual human eyeballs read my blog or if it’s all computer generated. I don’t even understand fully how it works, and believe me – when I started this blog I tried to learn. After several hours on the blogger backpage, I gave up. Come what may and all that.
More than the stats though, I LOVE seeing what actual search results brought people to my page. Some are obvious, and result in a huge amount of daily traffic. For instance, Dream High. One of my earliest posts on this blog and I barely remember writing it now except that it still gets tons of hits. I guess that’s a sign that I should write about more relevant and/or ridiculously popular dramas. (But then, what’s the fun in that?)
Other popular hits are for Cheongdamdong Alice and Bridal Mask reviews or synopses. Some people are apparently looking for some spoilery details on the end. Well, you can have it for Bridal Mask. My Cheongdamdong Alice review is a little more vague and on the professor-lecturing scope of things.
But then there are the hits that either make me laugh, or sigh for the poor people who were more than likely misdirected here. In honor of all you lost wanderers, maybe I can provide a little clarification about what you’ll find here on this little world I call ‘Shine a Light Rose’. At the very least, I can amuse the rest of you who read this regularly. ;)
Here are my Top 10 favorite search results:
#10 Spring Season
Oops. Sorry guys. If you wanted a definition of the spring season or pretty pictures of it, all you’re going to find are flower covered hills on an island off the southern coastline of South Korea. From a drama that has definitely got the sentiments right, I think your search words were a little too broad.
# 9 Full House Take 2
I wonder what people expect when they find this post waiting for them. Instead of relaying any facts about the drama, or even any decent opinions, what you get instead is an extremely snarky retelling of Full House Take 2 taken exclusively from scenes involving cats. There were enough for a whole drama. Don’t believe me? Do read about this adorable little kitten below.
Want the see the rest?
