Bet that title got your attention, huh?
Here at Rancho Ortega, we monitor our website’s analytics fairly closely. One metric to which we pay attention is which search terms are referring traffic to our site. That gives us some idea of what our readers are interested in, and sometimes it gives us a tip as to what others might be talking about elsewhere on the internet. Yesterday, we saw one of the stranger search terms that ever led a visitor to our site. Someone found us directly after Googling “fear hope and greed”.
Out of curiosity, we plugged that search string into Google and we couldn’t find our blog in the results. Our best guess is that it was our post “Calling a Bottom in Ladera Ranch Home Prices” that popped up, in which we said “[w]henever one talks about market psychology in a bubble/bust economy, one must reference the progressive stages of market psychology that participants experience — from enthusiasm to greed to denial to fear to capitulation to despair — before emerging from the shadows full of hope again.”
Although after today’s post, I’m sure we will rapidly climb Google’s page rankings for future “fear hope and greed” searches.
This blog post is now on the first page of Google when searching for “fear hope and greed.”