Views on Feathers, braids, and beads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhen I drill down into the search terms, it’s clear that lots of people are searching for “feather braids”, “how to do feather braids” and the like. When I search for “feather braids” on Google, my photo on Flickr is the fourth link, which is presumably why there have been so many hits all of a sudden. I can’t find anything that would explain this flurry of searches, however. Anyone out there in the Hive Mind know what’s driving this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anyone know why there’s been a sudden spike in searches for “feather braids”? I’ve seen a big spike in views on a photograph I took at the UMM Powwow back in 2007 (see the plot below). When I drill down into the search terms, it’s clear that lots of people are searching for “feather braids”, … Continue reading “Why the sudden interest in “feather braids”?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[527,105,523,525,403,524,128,526,225,158],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-photography","tag-feather-braids","tag-flickr","tag-hive-mind","tag-photograph","tag-photos","tag-powwow","tag-search","tag-spike","tag-umm","tag-university-of-minnesota-morris"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-k1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/10\/feathers-braids-and-beads\/","url_meta":{"origin":1241,"position":0},"title":"Feathers, braids, and beads","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"10 Apr 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Feathers, braids, and beads, originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent. 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