Who is John Preston?

Who is John Preston? I only ask because The Sleaze has just had a visit from someone as a result of their searching for 'John Preston naked' in Google. Sadly for them, (but probably fortuitously for John Preston), the story they clicked on - Naked Aggression - doesn't have anything to do with any John Prestons getting naked. Although it does feature John Prescott being stripped naked by a gang of militant naturists. But if you are called John Preston and think that somebody could be looking for naked pictures of you, the visitor came from Statesboro, Georgia, USA. So, if you know anybody there - report them to the police immediately. They're probably stalking you. As far as the searcher is concerned: the likelihood of actually finding any naked pictures of a specific non-celebrity person this way is pretty remote - so, my advice to you is to sneak around their house and stick your telescopic photo lens through their bathroom window in the hope of snatching some illicit nudie pics. Then post them on a web page with the words 'nude pictures of John Preston' in the 'title' tag. You might be able to find them in a web search after that.

As I’ve noted before, many visitors seem to find their way to The Sleaze as the result of such addled search terms. It’s the same for most web sites. A friend who works for a well-known publisher once told me that after his employer had installed tracking software more sophisticated than a simple counter on the company web site, they were horrified by the search terms driving traffic to them. Sometimes the origin of the visitors can be of interest. Over the past few weeks The Sleaze has registered visits from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and our own Houses of Parliament. Unlike many other site owners I’ve encountered, I find nothing sinister in such visits. A quick glance at the paths they arrived by confirms that, far from being ‘official’ visits, they are simply bored office workers trying to while away a few minutes of a dull working day with random web searches. Sometimes this kind of traffic can be a bit more focused. During the last General Election, for instance, my anti David Cameron stories attracted quite a few hits from Labour Party HQ. Researchers looking for political dirt, no doubt. I’d like to think that maybe, just maybe, I made Alistair Campbell chuckle with The Two Faces of David Cameron. Although the lack of subsequent return visits suggests I probably didn’t.