Another 10,000 visits have rolled around, this time in only 27 days (compared to 39 for the previous 10k).

All the usual suspects have appeared in my search logs – nude Hermione Grainger still being #1 (and #2) on the hit parade. The only new thing I can see there is “firefox 3 crap” – obviously some people aren’t happy with Firefox 3.

Now for the weirdest searches in the last month – “wank on my chips” …..hmmm, not on mine you don’t, errr yuk!!!!

Last 10k visitors took 39 days, a bit more than the previous 10k.

As for what brought people here, its just the usual things – Hermione Granger nude, pedo sex, tits, girls crapping, and the like.

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I decided to give my blog a bit of a makeover this week. Its a bit bare bones at the moment ….I will tart it up with some graphics and widgets over the next day or so.

Update (18/6/2008): Getting there. Sidebar is almost done (except for formatting in top commenters widget, blogroll moved from sidebar to its own page. Now to fix up the header graphic.

It seems so soon after I did my last stats roundup. The last 10k visits have taken only 31 days.

Now lets look at what’s brought people here. No real surprises. The usual suspects, vagina (in various forms, eg hairy, bald, wet, loose, big, 8 year old, 10 year old, Japanese, etc, etc), pussy, nude Hermione Granger, nude (insert celebrity name here), pedo sex, etc … all there again. There are a few new ones though:

• Lynne Tziolas – the nude schoolteacher from Sydney
• “how to resist masturbation” ….willpower, I’d suggest, or cold showers, or maybe wear boxing gloves to bed
• Macdonalds food pictures – just remember, it always looks better in the pictures than the real thing

Thats about all actually … the usual collection of weirdos looking for whatever they get their jollies from.

Haven’t done this for a while now, in fact since I moved over from Blogger to WordPress. Today marked the 140,000th visit to my blog since I started it 2 and a half years ago.

Now for a look at some of the searches that brought people here:

• vagina is very popular – in fact the top search term by wide margin
• Hermione Granger nude – still features highly. There is clearly much demand for her …”hermione nude”, “hermione granger nude”, “nude hermione”, “hermione granger pussy” and many mispelt variations of these
• tits are also popular- both generically and specific to nominated individuals. Some of the more popular searches were for “tits”, “bit tits”, “bare tits”, “tits out”, “big tits”, “naked tits” …. you get the idea.
• I still seem to be a magnet for the pedophiles – “pedo sex”, “10 year old sex”, “pedo”, ” 8 year old sex”, “girl masturbating during school” …. fucking sickos, for all you know I could be a policeman out to sting you.
• Ashley Dupree – the prostitute who former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer couldn’t resist
• Gemma Anscomb – party animal!
• Sydney Swans – finally something not related to sex, girls or both!
• “old sex” – to balance out the pedo stuff I guess?
• “sicko sex” – now this is a very open ended search, and rather specific to an individual … after all, just because something floats your boat doesn’t mean it does for me or anyone else
• “brother sister porn” – for the Tasmanian audience I suppose?
• now for some truly weird stuff – “buy rubber fist”, “vagina bilder”, “safari suit”, “horse got things in its vagania”, “geril’s pussy” (not sure if this is someone interested in girls or perhaps gerbils?)

All I can say is that there are a lot of people looking for some weird shit on the internet.

Problogger Darren Rowse scored an article in the the Australian newspaper yesterday. Makes for interesting reading. In particular it sets out how Darren has made over $700,000 from advertising on his sites since 2003, and gives a bit of a history of his business as well as an outline of how Google Adsense and affiliate advertising work.

Some interesting points from the article I thought included:

• Each day 15,000 to 17,000 people visit Problogger.
• an advertiser will pay from $10 to $100 per thousand people. The average cost to reach 1000 people across all media in Australia is about $20.

and the tips about building traffic (presumably Darren’s):

• Traffic builds over time, which is why early blog adopters usually have more than new ones.
• Search optimisation helps build traffic, from the name of a blog to the words used in posts and tags.
• If you build a community and trust with your audience, you can make a lot of money from affiliate sales.
• There is less clutter of websites in Australia than in the US and potential to build internet properties with the .au domain.
• Give visitors the option to save posts to social bookmarking sites. They can multiply traffic.

Thanks to Meg for the tip on this article, via Aussie Bloggers.

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