Entry Points

Extreme Tracking does a really good job of tracking this blog's readers. Among other things, it looks at what search terms you guys use to arrive here, and how often. Here's the top 20 terms after nearly a year's tracking (disregarding uninformative words like "the").

1. salto
   
2. sobrius
   
3. Viking
   
4. Sweden
   
5. Qtek
   
6. bikini
   
7. Celtic
   
8. 9100
   
9. Stockholm
   
10. Swedish
    
11. Bible
    
12. Martin
    
13. caffeine
    
14. withdrawal
    
15. shout
    
16. Suliman
    
17. Cassimjee
    
18. archaeology
    
19. blog
    
20. mask

There are two distinct reasons that these words are common entry points to the blog. Some (Viking, Sweden, Stockholm) are recurring themes here and can be said to be typical of the blog. But others have been used only very rarely here (bikini, Bible, caffeine). The reason that they appear on the list is that a huge number of web searches are done for these terms all the time, and so some of that traffic ends up here almost at random.

I don't have any visitor stats for individual entries on the blog. But judging from the list above, the following must be among the most read of all entries so far.

• Qtek 9100 handheld computer
  
• Shawls and bikini tops
  
• Celtic god mask
  
• Jim Benton on Christian child abuse manuals (this guest entry combines the words "Bible", "submission" and "spanking", and so draws an interesting crowd of fundie Christians and porn surfers. Or maybe they're the same people. A few disturbing searches actually look like they may be done by people looking for sadistic child pornography. Let's hope they're working for ECPAT.)
  
• Caffeine withdrawal headache
  
• Shout (just because I used a humourous headline, a huge number of Tears for Fears fans have ended up reading about Medieval law codes.)
  
• Suliman Cassimjee

[More blog entries about websearching, searchterms; webbsökning.]