I've really been focusing on directing traffic to my website, so this morning I was looking at the backside of my website to see what search terms people are using to find my site.  What I found was not only pretty funny, it reminded me of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.  I guess your only 6 degrees from just about anything... no matter how ridiculous!

Recent Search Terms That Will Take You To www.LivingInPlainfield.com:

• illegal dolls without human faces (this shows up several time on the backside... who knew so many people had an interest in this?!)
• play-dough flavored ice-cream
• museum of kids... followed by "museum of children" (this wouldn't be half as disturbing if it actually read "museum for kids")
• cut the grass
• family shadow
• free birthday meals
• trick or treat

Of course there were many more real estate related terms but these were the ones that jumped off the page as strange to me.  Now, the interesting thing is that my hyper-local Plainfield IL website contains a lot of community and non-real estate related information.  I am 100% positive that is why you can get to my site from this string of seemingly unrelated search terms.  On the other hand, the search terms for my other website: www.ChicagoRealEstatePlainfieldHomes.com are being directed strictly from real estate related terms.  I went 20 pages back and didn't find a single word that wasn't somehow related to real estate in my area.

The difference between my two sites is the reason I write for each one.  The Plainfield site is kind of a "welcome to the neighborhood" type platform.  It's all about why you'd want to live here, and what Plainfield has to offer.  I have tried to make myself more of a resource in the community and that sometimes includes talking about things other than real estate.

My Chicago real estate site has been and will always be strictly about real estate.  It's my broader outreach to the cities beyond my farm area.  I have never written about anything other than real estate which is why the only way you can get to that site is by searching for words that are somehow related to real estate.

I guess I can trace a long line from those crazy search terms loosely to posts I've written on my Plainfield site, but it's interesting to see what people are looking for when they end up at your own front door!