Friday, March 23, 2007

A Rullsenberg traffic spike

Normally I get around 450-550 visitors per week.

This week I got 896.

Whaaaat?!!!!!!!!!! (To invoke a much-laughed over phrase)

Then I realised it had mostly come between Saturday and Monday. What were most of the searches looking for?

Primeval (reasonable)

Blake Ritson...

Huh?

Then I realised that (1) when Ritson was in The Romantics alongside David Tennant I had been praiseworthy of his broody physique. I thought he would be a shoe-in for Dream of the Endless.

... and then (2) I remembered that Sunday night had seen the screening of Ritson alongside Billie Piper in ITV's dramatisation of Jane Austen. Hence a search for 'pictures of Blake Ritson' placed me in 9th place in a google search.

Suddenly it all made sense.

However, other searches made less sense. Including this one:

"stag do" rules customs

I come up as 6th for this archived post. Those boys doing the searches must be SOOOO disappointed (not to say confused...)

3 comments:

Anna Lowman (annawaits) said...

Blake Ritson ain't got nothing on JJ Feild in tonight's wonderful Northanger Abbey.... :)

Rob said...

Ah, the endless fascination of the referral stats. I bet after six weeks solid of having your stats full of Blake Sodding Ritson you'll get fed up with it. Like me with all those bloody wet t-shirts.

Reidski said...

I usually only get hits from people doing image searches, but, today, I got one from someone looking for the hilarious Funfair Dismissal joke.
Oh, and I used to be top google search on Escapades night club in Darlington, but I'm down the list for that one now!