Having been poking around inside my website’s control panel this evening I finally found the access stats package (awstats, it appears). After peering at browser access percentages (IE 50%, Firefox 30%) I spotted an option to tell me the most popular search terms that led to my blog. The result was interesting, a past entry on the subject of Stuffplug-NG for MSN Messenger dominates 30% of all incoming searches. Strange. I actually rank 6th on Google on the subject. I’ll concede that my current understanding of search engines isn’t gigantic, but that seems odd.
Two of my better posts crop up: Searches for “iPod disk write error” and “radiohead album art” get a handful of percentage points each. All of which get more than searching “Ben Ward”.
Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.