Words Dept. is One
Monday, 9 June 2008
This blog, built and written by my own hands with only occasional assistance from my brain, was exactly one year old yesterday. It’s been a rollercoaster ride of pure emotion, I’m sure you’ll agree!
During that time, I have steadily built the readership of the blog from a mere fourteen to a massive fifteen readers, including dear Robin, who has posted a commendable 48 comments when he should really have been editing a motoring website. So thank you to him, to Rev Stan and my other regular readers.
I thought you might be interested to see the most popular search terms that have brought people to the blog during the last year. By far the most popular search term is “Nigella Lawson”, or (often mis-spelt) variations thereof, whose comely figure has driven more than 3,000 hits to the site. This is clearly caused by Google images. Until recently, if you typed in “Nigella Lawson”, this site (specifically a post from last September) was the fourth result - although it seems to have vanished in recent weeks, for some reason.
The rest appears to be a mix of Jamie Hewlett enthusiasts, JJ Abrams geeks, fans of North West Tonight and people looking for sexual kicks. The full top 20 is below with occasional comments in brackets.
Anyway, here’s to another year full of joy and excitement. And erotic pleasure, natch.
Top 20 search terms bringing visitors to Words Dept. 2007-2008
1. Nigella Lawson/Nigella/Nigela/”Nigella Lawson fat”
2. Jamie Hewlett/Monkey drawings/Chinese monkey drawings
3. Spice Girls
4. Slosho
5. Hustler TV (hmmm…)
6. Tricia Penrose
7. Shannon Matthews
8. Jonathan Wilkes
9. Jeremy Darroch (he’s the boss of Sky telly)
10. What is the credit crunch? (a popular post with GCSE students and FT hacks)
11. Ranvir Singh
12. Gregg Wallace spanking
13. Charles Saatchi
14. Nick Clegg wife (oh dear)
15. Tameside Hospital
16. Nespresso magazine
17. Gordon Burns
18. Farmfoods
19. Asda Hitler
20. Nicky Campbell
No. 1 — June 10th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Ah, youth.
Once you reach the heady heights of five years of a blog, like me you can expect things like “budapest prostitutes” and “teen group sex” to be in your top search terms.
It’s something to shoot at…
No. 2 — June 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I’ve never been sure what the netiquette of using copyrighted photos is on blogs. It seems to fall under that grey area of ‘probably-illegal-but-you’re=probably-not-worth-suing’, which is an uncomfortable position, at best.
I’m always concerned that Google Images might lead some litigious image bank to my site, so tend to tag any dubious photos with utterly irrelevant nonsense.
My invoice is in the post, by the way.
No. 3 — June 12th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Now I feel bad because I haven’t read Words dept for over a week and I missed your first birthday and you mentioned me and everything.
Happy Birthday.
Promise I’ll try and be a good regular reader from now on.
No. 4 — June 13th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Like the new design. It’s much better.