WTQs

What The Query?!? If you’ve even been reading through an SQR and laughed at loud at what you saw, this collection of posts is for you! Sit back, relax, and enjoy some laughs with our account’s strange and hilarious search queries.


weird wedding

WTQ?! Whacky Weddings Edition

Weddings are weird. They’re the ultimate expression of a couple’s love for each other, and sometimes that love is just weird. Everyone wants to showcase whatever weird thing they share as a couple, and they want their wedding to be …

siri

WTQ?! Remember Ask Jeeves?

This month, we’ve got 5 amazing WTQ?! search queries for you. My favorite, number 5, reminds me that some people still search like they’re using AskJeeves. Remember when that was a thing? You were told to search like you were …

do the creep

WTQ?! – Do The Creep!

We all know from doing search query reports that we get some weird searches populating our ads. Sometimes it’s just something strange like people putting www in the search bar with some general phrase (what is that about?!) and other …

best of 2011

Best WTQ’s from 2011 – Plus Some Negative Keyword Tips!

Twenty eleven brought us some strange, sometimes shocking, usually funny search queries. The whole Hanapin office had a great time mining our reports to bring you these gems. We had some great WTQ post tributes to icons such as Justin …

WTQ – Bringin’ Sexy Back

You might have noticed that these WTQ posts tend to have a theme of some sort. Usually, this theme can be seen in the kinds of queries we’ve gotten for that particular month. It truly baffles me that searchers from …

What. The. Query.

In the past, I’ve been able to theme these WTQ posts pretty well – we’ve had a Wayne’s World tribute, a President George W. Bush tribute, and most recently a shout out to Justin Bieber. But this month, as the …

WTQ – Justin Bieber Style

Before I go to write our monthly What The Query?! post, I ask around the office for some WTQ gems my coworkers have mined in the last month. Normally, some pretty awesome ones come through the pipeline, but this month, Bethany …

George W. Bush Wonders “What the Query?”

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just need a good laugh. If you have awesome co-workers like I do, then having a good time and a lot of laughs at work is pretty easy; so for me, finding …

“What the Query?!” – A Wayne’s World Tribute

So we’ve been writing these WTQ posts for a few months now, and while it is funny to wonder what the heck people might have been thinking when typing them in…I have to admit, I can relate to these quirky …

Search Queries That Make You Say “Hmmm…”

Sometimes PPC work is fun and exciting, and other times it’s just a little monotonous. Staring at data and spreadsheets for extended periods of time is not always how I’d LIKE to spend my day. But one set of data …