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Search Engine Terms

Blogging has its perks. Besides the ability to express one’s opinion in anonymity (or at least pseudo anonymity), I’ve found some little pleasures in observing visitor behaviours on this site, especially the words that have brought them here on a first time visit from search engines.

This part of WordPress that allows me to see the search engine terms that bring visitors from search engines began to amaze me when I found that at least two visits to ktravula.com were consequent upon the search for “gay man sex“. I’ve now tried to search for those terms myself on Google and surprisingly I didn’t end up here. So I tried for “gay man sex Illinois“. Still nothing, I’ve tried “gay man sex America“, “gay man sex travula“, and still without luck. Whomever it was who was linked to my website for searching for gay porn must have spent so much time in the search engine before my site would be eventually recommended. I’m not gay, but I’ve now deliberately searched for “gay man sex ktravula” and this site shows up finally on the results. The result was this old post in which I had mentioned the Episcopalian Churches support for homosexual and lesbian rights. I am hugely relieved.

Here are the other terms that have brought people here since this blog began. In brackets are the frequency of such search engine terms. Enjoy.

  • gateway arch(13)
  • www.ktravula.com(4)
  • tyto alba(3)
  • pictures of university of ibadan(1)
  • heathrow airport terminal (3)
  • underground(1)
  • the social gospel movement(1)
  • perspective on slavery(1)
  • all saints church yaba(1)
  • schooling in west africa 16th century(1)
  • edwardsville couger lake (1)
  • uk border patrol agent(1)
  • african traditional religion holydays(1)
  • how do you pronounce bolanle in yoruba(1)
  • fulbright flta comment(1)
  • travelogue about church(1)
  • postsecret at siue(1)
  • sola olorunyomi(1)
  • my computer bitmap(1)
  • blocked head(1)
  • achebe(1)
  • nigerians speak british english with acc(1)
  • kola tubosun travelogue(1)
  • six flags(1)
  • dark skin women(1)
  • a picture of the cameras at six flags(1)
  • “halle berry” imagesize:1280×800(1)
  • gay men in robes(1)
  • social gospel movements(1)
  • mtn extra cool(1)
  • gay man sex(1)
  • gay men sex(1)
  • wal-mart traffic signs(1)
  • slavery times(1)
  • brown university to boston airport(1)
  • american autumn imagesize:1024×768(1)
  • maya angelou(1)
  • virginia lynn bennett(1)
  • ktravula(1)
  • leaving providence(1)
  • mafoya(1)

Many of them amaze me, but the ones I have coloured amaze me the most. And with this post, I’m going to get more homosexual references now for sure. I’m not looking forward to that.

Search Engine Terms was published on October 27th, 2009, with the tags , , , , under the Fun, Observations category. There are currently 3 comments on this article so far.

Itinerary

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Monday, October 26th 2009:

  • In-class movie Thunderbolt by Mainframe, featuring Uche Obi-Osotule, Larinde Akinleye, Akinwumi Isola, Buki Ajayi and Lanre Balogun.

Tuesday, October 27th 2009:

  • Classworks, projects, assignments, a few other boring stuff.

Wednesday, October 28th 2009:

  • In-class movie Thunderbolt, cont’d.
  • A little fun after linguistics class, maybe on the bowling alley.

Thursday, October 29th 2009:

  • Same as Tuesday
  • Plus perhaps an attempt to make a perfect costume.
  • And maybe some basketball if the weather permits it.
  • Catch up on the many abandoned editing, writing and reading assignments.

Friday, October 30th: Open

Saturday, October 31st: Halloween

Quote for the week:

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.” – Robert Benchley


Itinerary was published on October 26th, 2009, with the tags , , , , , , , under the Academic, adventures, Art, Fun category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

To Carbondale And Back

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The Carbondale campus of SIU is one of the other campuses of the institution, along with the ones at  Alton, East St. Louis and Edwardsville (which are the towns that provide the name/acronym for the University’s periodic newspaper, the Alestle).

Beside a very good tour of the photo exhibition of the African American history of the town, especially their contribution to the coal mining that was the highlight of the town’s development, we also had fun gathering for a very hearty meal. For me, another highlight was being able to drive my Professor’s S-Class Benz on the open highway while coming back to Edwardsville, two hours away.

Let me not forget to mention a notable scramble within the gathered Fulbright scholars (of different genders, countries and scholar categories) to take a picture with the real-life looking cardboard cutting of the President Obama which had happened to find itself in the middle of the exhibition room beside an American flag. Trust me, I didn’t pass up that opportunity myself. I guess the only thing that could beat that is a meeting of the man himself in the flesh sometime soon.

It was a nice day, surely.

To Carbondale And Back was published on October 24th, 2009, with the tags , , , , , , , under the adventures, Art, Fun, Observations, Travelling category. There are currently 3 comments on this article so far.

America Tonight

IMG_0782It’s just the rustling leaves on the ground – the gentle breeze

that blows. It’s the glow of lights around the evening trees.

It’s the smiles in her joyful eyes, the love that I see around.

It’s the warm nudge, a subtle touch of flesh, or a gentle sound.

I felt it tonight, within hopes on the faces I see wherever I look.

Graceful laughs under branches, and falling rain around the brook.

I smell it in the cold night air, brown like the leaves of autumn’s rust

I touch it in hugs of fleece, wondrous wool, fabric mufflers of trust.

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It’s in the sound of music, softened in bits of sweet tingling taste.

It’s in the rustling of leaves on the ground – a season of deathly waste.

It’s America tonight, Midwest, in the folds of a gradually freezing host:

I stand with words as shield, the less squelching shawls I know the most.

America Tonight was published on October 23rd, 2009, with the tags , , , , under the Art, Fun, Observations category. There are currently 7 comments on this article so far.

A Conversation

Man: I’ve been thinking…

I’m the man of this house, so starting tomorrow I want to have a hot, delicious meal ready for me the second I walk through that door…

Afterwards, while watching ESPN and relaxing in my chair, you’ll bring me slippers and then run my bath…

And when I’m done with my bath, guess who’s going to dress me and comb my hair?

Woman: The funeral director!

A joke seen on one of the office doors in my department.

A Conversation was published on October 22nd, 2009, with the tags , , under the Art, Fun, Observations category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.