Crazy search terms in stats

[omegaman66]

I was just looking over my stats in awstats and noticed something that makes me wonder. I'm Not at home so I can't look at my logfiles to answer the question myself.

Here is what I noticed. When I look at my stats I see search terms such as 'tot', '105', 'nexearch', 'btn', 'click' etc. Each of these terms individually has provided (according to my stats) 100's of visitors to my website. But if I go to google and search for these terms my website is nowhere to be found.

These words are listed under keyword phrases. Is it possible they are part of a search involving other terms, such as 'tot something else' even though they show up as just one word in the keyword phrase listing?

[bhartzer]

It could be someone doing an internal search on your site if you have an internal search feature...or it could be just from log file/web stats spam.

[omegaman66]

Turns out it was some overseas search engine that had its searches parsed incorrectly.