A lesson from the referrer logs

For the first time ever, my last month’s referral logs have been interesting, with a rather distinct pattern forming. Let’s see:

12 Feb: britney leather skirt pic
12 Feb: does sex sell? christina aguilera
17 Feb: “leather skirt” sex – someone really dedicated to sex and leather skirts. My site doesnt appear in the first 10 pages or so of results…
18 Feb: look like christina aguilera
18 Feb: jewel’s image
**19 Feb: **jewel’s image

There’s a message here for me: write about celebrities and sex more often. Oh, and mention leather skirts. My wife has a leather skirt, you know, but it goes all the way to her ankles, and so probably isn’t what these people are looking for…

Mind you, I really don’t want to know what the person who searched for “many ladies one man picture” was looking for. “eight members” pop music is a bit of a mystery, too.

About Adam Tinworth

Adam is a digital journalism analyst, trainer and consultant. He started his career publishing newspapers for the children on his street in the 1980s, edited student magazines in the 1990s, and then spent a decade as a business journalist. In 2006, he moved full-time into digital journalism development. Since 2012, he's been trading as an independent consultant, and has worked with everything from national and international newspapers, to small local charities.