What do people search for on Offbeat Bride?

Distinct queries per day
I spent some time peeking at my Google Site Search stats last week, and learned some things about the stuff that readers search for on Offbeat Bride. (To reiterate, these are not the searches that lead people TO Offbeat Bride — these are the searches people do once they’re already ON Offbeat Bride.) From the chart above, you can see that despite the fact that our traffic since 2009 has increased by 20% – 80% each year, the number of on-site searches have gradually declined. I like to think this is because we’ve made it easier to find content on the site without searching, but that may be optimistic of me.

Anyway, here are the top 20 search terms people have used when searching on Offbeat Bride:

Popular web queries all time

Query Instances
invitations 10688
vows 7891
readings 5317
steampunk 4104
music 3627
hair 3433
halloween 2807
shoes 2729
lesbian 2388
save the date 2257
centerpieces 2189
dress 2087
bouquet 1729
peacock 1675
rings 1611
rockabilly 1473
vintage 1457
beach 1396
favors 1391
elope 1288

It’s fun to break the search terms into categories like logistics (invitations, vows, readings, music), identities (lesbian, steampunk, rockabilly) and themes (peacock, halloween, vintage). Also, I feel like I should code some sort of algorithm from this list to automagically produce Offbeat Bride posts. It would probably save my editors a lot of time.