Finding Letchworth

This is kinda fun. Well, in a very geeky sort of way maybe. Basically I've just discovered that one of the sites that tracks this blog records the search terms that people have used in search engines to find us.

Of just over 12,000 hits about 1,800 have come via search engines, with 371 different search terms being used to find us, some of which are a bit bizarre (various combinations of "girls" and "mud" feature occasionally, for example). There are, however, some runaway winners in the search term popularity stakes - "Letchworth girls rugby", "Letchworth girls blogger", and "Letchworth rugby girls" accounting for about a third of all "hits" between them.

But even these search terms pale into insignificance behind one search. This one search that accounts for an impressive 15% of all hits on the site made via a search engine. And that search term is (roll of drums please...)

natalie threlfall (266 hits)

Even if you add up all the varients of "sasha" you only get barely half that (134 in fact).

Our other popular people on search engines (if you combine variations of search term) are Fern (85), Rachel (58), Randy (19), Jess (8), Joe (7), and Nim (6). Emily, Nichola, Hayley G, Katie, Nikki, Laura, Hayley A, and Carla have also featured in search terms at one time or another.

Other search terms are fairly predictable, though why the person searching for "train times saturday morning ely to beckenham junction" thought they were going to get the answer from our blog I cannot begin to imagine....