Rami Ungar The Writer

I’ve been writing this blog for about a year and a half, give or take a few weeks, and I’ve had plenty of people on my blog, especially after Anne Rice linked my review of The Wolf Gift to her Facebook. However since this summer I’ve noticed some trends on my Stats page that I have to share with you guys, just because they are searched often and because I think it’s interesting that so many people (or perhaps the same people) keep returning to these particular blog posts.

The first is that a lot of people are searching for “old dolls”, “evil dolls”, “creepy dolls”, “dolls with souls”, and other variations of those search terms. Now, this past summer I did write a short story that involved a living doll. Granted, it was a piece of crap compared to some of my other work, and I don’t think I’ll be taking another look at it any time soon. However I wrote a couple of blog posts about it, each with a photo of some spooky or scary-looking doll on it. I can’t tell for certain how many times people have done these searches, but I do think that it’s at least once a week. So are people trying to get their hands on these cursed dolls? Are people just researching them? Or is there a doll out there that’s very good at hunt-and-peck and is trying to find out more about itself? If it’s that last one, I’m sorry if you were offended by those scary pictures. I did not mean to characterize you as a monster, I was just giving my readers what they want.

The other thing I’ve noticed is that someone or someones from Russia are looking at some of the old articles for my serial killer novel Snake a lot. Every time I see that an old Snake article has been looked at, I’d say there’s a possibly fifty-fifty chance that Russia is a bright orange on my Stats page. In addition, I often see search terms like “snake basilisk outline” or “how to snake outline”, and even more interesting, I’ve been seeing search terms in Cyrillic lately, always the same four letters. I ran them through an online Russian dictionary, and I got the definitions “snake, serprent”. This morning in fact, three people from Russia have been viewing my blog, two search terms in Cyrillic were used that contained the word for snake, and there was even a search term that said “snake part iii done”, one of the posts that had been viewed this morning. I think this may have something to do with the fact that the Snake speaks Russian and uses old torture techniques associated with the Russian mob. Perhaps someone in Russia is trying to find out more about the Snake and is getting interested in the novel. Or perhaps someone in the Russian mob is mad I’m using some of their old history for my own use.

God, I hope it’s the first one. I’d rather not end up in the Ohio River or somewhere with a bullet in my head and concrete on my feet.

What’s the most searched for things on your blogs? And what do you think it signifies?