I thought about posting it as an "Ask HN" article, but I figured it was better in a longer format. Plus I get to experiment with seeing if future searchers are actaully willing to pay ten bucks for more pictures!
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Try searching "left-handed tomato peelers" on Google vs Yahoo: Yahoo's top results tend to be smaller niche stuff; Google has Amazon, BizRate and shopping.msn in the top 6.
All very interesting, but unfortunately the volume isn't really enough for a pure ad play.
When I go to Yahoo and enter "Allison Stokke", I get bupkis hits from my blog (which is fine with me!) -- even in the images -- but yet Webalizer says that 90% of the hits are coming from there. Any ideas?
There is an SEO question at the bottom of this -- is there some other way to get hits from a search engine besides going to the page and looking at the results? It's outside of my depth. I was hoping somebody here would have the answer. I'll shut up now.
Also, if you are getting this report solely from webserver logs it might be a false positive. Cross-check against Analytics or other javascript-based counter to make sure it's not bots. Microsoft has been spamming people's logs with fake "search traffic" for years.
Also, you have a handful of sites that are hotlinking to your images of this woman. It's possible that's passing PR. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Allison+Stokke%22+%2Bwha...