What brings people here?

I did some analysis of the apache logs for this site to see what search terms had led people here.

The commonest search was for guitar chords to The Wheels on the Bus. I’ve put such seekers out of their misery by adding chords to the relevant entry.

This was one illustration of a general principle: that the titles of entries are weighted more heavily than other text. My habit of giving rather oblique titles means that this site turns up, for example on a search for ‘Dalton’s Weekly’. And my ’embarrassing mistake’ made once when singing Kodály is among the first page of results for this phrase. (But isn’t owning up to embarrassing mistakes one of the main things blogs are for?)

It was a fascinating exercise, and I’m willing to share the script which extracts search terms from the server logs with anyone interested in trying it on their site.

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