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Yesterday I asked:

Reader question of the evening:

Why was “Twat-o-Thon” the top search term for sending people to Liberal Conspiracy in June?

And I hinted that the reason was not to do with Liberal Conspiracy itself. This article supplies the answer.

Here’s some food for thought first. The top search words on the same basis for some of the politics blogs on Wikio that I can test. I can only look at individual blogs that have their own second level domain, since that is the granularity of the compete.com figures.

Reader question of the evening.

Why was “Twat-o-Thon” the top search term for sending people to Liberal Conspiracy in June?

At least, that is, according to the compete.com metrics site.

Suggestions in the comments below, please.

Make them reasonably polite or censorship will be exercised.

I’ll post the answer at the end of the evening.

Clue: it tells you more about search engines than it does about Liberal Conspiracy.