Fun With Search Engines - Counting My Pennies

Taking a page from a number of bloggers, I’ve decided to go through my referral logs and find out what people are searching for when they find my blog through their search engine.

It appears that the search engines are doing their jobs, as a number of the search phrases make perfect sense:

Some are a little more amusing:

“photo dentist filling cavity” – The stuff horror movies are made of.
“pennies a day loans” – Do you want someone to loan you a few pennies a day? Or are you looking for a loan that requires you to pay back your loan with only a few pennies a day? Neither option sounds like a good plan, just so you know.
“number of people content in a room count” – How many people are you trying to squish in that room there?
“donations to pay my bills” – Yeah, sorry dude. No help here. Good luck with that though.

For you bloggers out there – any amusing search terms in your referral logs?

Megan Smith

Megan is a 30-something government employee in the Washington, DC area. She got interested in Personal Finance when she got out of college and realized that her paycheck wasn’t going to go as far as she had hoped. Since starting this blog, she has managed to buy a house and make a solid start on her retirement goals, and hopes to help others do the same. Here is her story:

In 2007, I was a gainfully employed 20-something with no debt but not a lot of knowledge about personal finance. It was a co-worker’s comment about Roth IRAs that sent me to the internet, searching for information. It was then that I realized that I really didn’t know a whole lot about personal finance and that my current financial situation was due a lot to inherent frugal tendencies, generous family members, a fear of debt, and good luck. While that was working for me, clearly I needed a better plan.

While I had no debt, I was also pretty much living paycheck to paycheck and not worrying about going over budget (I say this as if I had a real budget) because I had an emergency fund set aside to cover any overages.

Except that’s not what an emergency fund is for.

So I did a lot of research, read a lot of blogs, and decided that I needed a plan. I needed to budget. I needed to know what I was spending my money on. I needed to prepare for the future.

I decided to create a blog not only to make myself accountable to others but also to share the knowledge that I gained along the way. I’ve learned so much from my fellow bloggers, and I hope that my readers can find something useful in what I have to share as well.

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