As you may be aware, visitors to my blog are counted, thanks to the wonderful chaps at sitemeter.com.

I can log into sitemeter, and see all sorts of statistics about my readership. If nothing else, it's reassuring that someone's actually reading this drivel I pump out. In addition to breaking down my readership by domain, country, operating system, browser type, hat size and eye colour (yes, they're watching you watching us), it also provides me with information, such as what search string the visitor entered, that my site appeared in the results thereof.

When I went to the last Colorado Bloggers drink... err meet, one of my fellow columnists mentioned that his site had somehow come up in a search with the string "naked Pakistani boys". We all had a jolly good laugh with him about this, and were suggesting suitable meta-tags to embed in our pages, to drive up traffic from search engines.

Needless to say, being the honourable chaps we are, we none of us have done such a thing. Besides which, it's far more amusing to see your site listed in someone's search for porn, when you've never covered such a subject.

However, today - a record-breaking day for visitors to Englishman In Denver - I had my first really obscure search string referral. Englishman In Denver appeared as result No.21 in the search string, "naked carrie fisher fakes".

Given the abject lack of pornography on my site (New blog, "Max Does Denver" coming soon), you've got to wonder how we ever appeared in this guy's search results. What actually happened is that an amalgum of words, from various EID articles, formed the desired search string.

In case you're interested, here we are in the search results.

By the way, to give you an idea of what a record-breaking day it's been, I get an average of nine visitors per day, which is respectable, given the lack of advertising I do, plus the non-commercial nature of the site. Today, however, with only half an hour to go before midnight, I got 19! This is the point in the show, where our British readers are handed over to Peter Snow* and his barrage of computer generated graphics, to show a, "definite swing, in favour of the Raving Looney Party**".

I've seen us listed in some other searches, but this is my first one that's porn-related.

I'm so proud!

*madcap statistical election specialist
**American readers - seriously, this is a real British political party, with real questions, such as "why is there only one Monopolies Commission?"