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Inspired by Stevo’s post on Wonderful Search Terms and hoping to jump on the internet meme bandwagon, here are the top 20 searches for this site.

Firstly, I know what the number one search term for this site is and I know it without checking.  I find it fantastic that particular search term brings so many people in and I think I am about to up it’s searchability!

So, without further ado, here is the list of the top 20 according to Woopra (searching via Google - text and image search), with comments:
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This may seem to be a little nosy, but I have been looking at the various visitors and posters that come here and while I can probably guess in some cases, I am genuinely curious as to how my visitors come here.

Now, my reason for being here is obvious - it’s my site.  Some people I know through other sites, but I also have regular visitors and commenters that I don’t know and can’t work out what brought them here.  I’m happy that you are all here, of course, but how did you get here?

So, please post a comment to let me know your route.  Did you search for Lesbians and find that this was not the site you were looking for?  (and that is still the number one search term that brings people here.  That and donkey sex.)  Were you idly browsing and found this place?  Did your computer crash and this was the only place your browser would open?
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I have long been curious about how people find my site and what they do when they get here. There are a number of plugins you can install for WordPress, but there isn’t (as far as I know) one tool which shows everything. And now there is.

Woopra is an application which analyses your site traffic and can bring up a number of facts about who they are and what they do. Signing up is free - you sign up, submit your site(s) and await notification. At this time of writing, it can take around 7 days but I believe they are working on ways to speed this up. Once you have signed up, download the WordPress plugin, install the app (with a few extra steps for Ubuntu users!) and watch the graphs fill up.

Woopra is in beta at the moment, but I must say that it’s one of the most polished beta apps I have used. For example, on starting up you are presented with the dashboard (click for bigger):
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Feel free to emphasise any of the words in the title.

No, this isn’t another “Seinfeld post“, at least, I hope that’s not how it comes out. Firstly, an apology: I do not consider myself qualified to write about blogging, beyond putting down my own experiences. If you are interested in the mechanics, there are far better sites out there who can talk knowledgeably about SEO and link farming (or pharming) and the best ways to get your blog seen by readers, some of them are on my Links page and others are not. Seriously. I think my all time highest view count was 200 and my most searched terms are “lesbians” and “donkey sex”. So please, get your blogging advice elsewhere.

OK, caveat over with. Anyone who may read this site will realise, ever so quickly, that it is totally random. It really is a place for me to just drop whatever is in my head onto the page. I have never hidden this and, in fact, take a sort of perverse pride in it. It also accounts for the fact that updates are only semi regular and ideas I say I’ll come back to I never do. But, recent posts on Untwisted Vortex made me think a little more about what I write about and about what others write. In particular, this post. And, by the way, if it looks as though I’m providing a load of links to one site then don’t worry - that site has a lot of good ideas and I read it every day, so it’s only natural that it will be on my mind.
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In the continuing spirit of openness, I thought I’d let you know of two (2) recent changes I made. Recent as in within the last hour.

The first is very obvious, you will see it as you enter the site: I have joined the ever growing ranks of people who make it easy to add stuff to social bookmarking sites. You will now see the “Share This” icon at the bottom of every post. And it looks like this:

I got this via the Wordpress dashboard and from Alex King’s site. Simple to add and customise and it has a number of sites you can link to. If any social bookmarking site you use isn’t on there, leave a comment to let me know and I’ll see if it can be added.
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Here’s something odd. I have purposely avoided writing about sexual topics - that I recall. Not because I have this plan to have a fluffy, cuddly site. Not because I find it distasteful (I don’t). But simply because I have no wish to write about it. Your sex life, and my sex life, is completely private and I don’t wish to inform the world about it. Just assume I’m a total stud and you won’t go far wrong.

Because I’m a sad type, I installed a plugin called Wordpress.com Stats (and yes, I am well aware that this is not on Wordpress.com) to see, well, stats on the site. It is written and maintained by Andy Skelton and, in line with most Wordpress plugins, is easy to install/upgrade and does what it says on the tin. This plugin shows things like a pretty graph to show your hits over various time periods and what people click on.

How do these two paragraphs relate? Well I’m glad you asked. Looking at my stats, I was unsurprised to see that I have few hits. Not bothered. I’m not doing this for a living. I was, however, completely surprised to see that over the last two days 107 people have visited my site after searching for variations on the word “lesbians”. Furthermore, one of the links people click to get to my site is from lexic.us - and online dictionary and thesaurus - and is, you guessed it, “lesbians“.
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