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:
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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.