For the past year, I've wanted to take the time to analyze at least two months worth of Rugged Elegant Living and RuggedElegance.com traffic data and share the most popular Google and Yahoo keyword search results with our global "rugged elegant" community. I thought members of The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network - which grew to over 580,000 unique visitors in May - might find it interesting to know who, what and where are the most "googled" places of taste profiled in RuggedElegance.com, and the most sought after healthy, adventuresome and/or soulful" people and products that we are writing about in Rugged Elegant Living.

The results are in and they are fascinating.

To follow are some of the more interesting searches that rank in Rugged Elegant Living and RuggedElegance.com's top keywords and phrases for March, April and May 2005.

This does not include the many variations of "American Idol" search results (save the host, judges and contestants searched) from Google News, Yahoo or Overture which led people to Rugged Elegant Living.

Since American Idol is a topic we covered throughout Season IV we could have projected a strong turn-out, especially when our stories land on the Google News homepage.

Separate from searches, such as "american+idol", " american+idol+2005", "american-idol", " american+idol+3", etc. here are the top people, places and products that our global online community is looking for.

The Most Searched Keywords That Led People to 'Rugged Elegant Living' and RuggedElegance.com This Spring

Top 25 Rugged Elegant Women Searches - Spring 2005

1) Sharon Stone
2) Miss Universe
3) Kelly Clarkson
4) Paula Abdul
5) Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe 2004
6) Carrie Underwood
7) Mariska Hargitay
8) Ashanti
9) Peta Wilson
10) Miss USA
11) Michelle Lombardo
12) Fantasia
13) Joss Stone
14) Charlize Theron
15) Jessica Simpson
16) Maria Sharapova
17) Vanessa Williams
18) Oprah Winfrey
19) Jennifer Garner
20) Jennifer Lopez
21) Marilyn Monroe
22) Laura Bush
23) Juilanne Moore
24) Nicole Kidman
25) Julia Roberts

3,166 people were in search of information about Sharon Stone. In contrast, Catherine Zeta Jones made our "Top 100" Searches list. She was the 99th most searched keyword or phrase.

Two of my personal favorite "rugged elegant" people were Kate Hudson, 133rd out of all searches in March, April & May 2005, and Elin Nordegren, who was our 243rd.

Top 25 Rugged Elegant Men Searches - Spring 2005

1) Bo Bice
2) Constantine Maroulis
3) Prince
4) Roger Federer
5) Johnny Depp
6) Harry Potter
7) Andy Roddick
8) Mario Vasquez
9) Anthony Fedorov
10) Ryan Seacrest
11) Will Ferrell
12) Pat Tillman
13) Giorgio Armani
14) Clay Aiken
15) Bill Clinton
16) Tony Trousset, Managing Director, UBS Investment Banking
17) Christopher Reeve
18) Shrek
19) Jesus
20) Sebastien Izambard
21) Leonardo Da Vinci
22) Sammy Sosa
23) Michael Phelps
24) Dale Earnhardt Jr.
25) Randy Jackson

Hopefully Mr. Trousset will see this story and learn that he is the most "rugged elegant" men on the planet. Perhaps he deserves a profile in RuggedElegance.com.

Other "rugged elegant" men who make our favorites list include: Sean Connery (our 224th most searched word(s) or phrase) this spring, Sean Penn (our 240th) and Al Pacino (our 261st).

To read the story or stories written about the people listed above, go to the SEARCH field on the right column of this page and type in their name.

Below are the Top 25 Products the Internet community was looking for online and found in Rugged Elegant Living.

I have elected to link directly to these products in The Rugged Elegance World Marketplace.

In some cases, I have linked to the story where they first appeared in Rugged Elegant Living.

Thank you for supporting Rugged Elegance by purchasing products that relate to our stories and/or by purchasing products available through the marketplace we have built in affiliation with Amazon.

Top 25 Rugged Elegant Product Searches - Spring 2005

1) Il Divo (the story: American Idol's Simon Cowell, Cowell's Il Divo & Our Diva Joss Stone)*
2) Thong (Jennifer Hawkins thong story and Jonathan Saunders' See Through Thong Skirtstory)
3) Four Inches Book (our story: The Lengths "Posh" Celebrities Will Go To Raise Money For Elton John's AIDS Cause: "Four Inches" In The Buff)
4) Digital Camera
5) Louis Vuitton
6) Giorgio Armani
7) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8) Luna Bars
9) Harry Potter 3 (HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
10) Adidas
11) The Passion of The Christ
12) Basic Instinct
13) Rent, The Movie
14) Weber Baby Gas Grill
15) Diamond Shoes
16) Praying for The Soul of Betty (American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis recently released their first CD. Interesting that the title is actually Pray For The Soul of Betty.)
17) Tom Ford Book (There are actually two: TOM FORD for $78.75 and The Deluxe Edition for $220.50 at the time of publication)
18) Because of Winn-Dixie (now a major motion picture)
19) Stuart Weitzman Shoes
20) Tiffany Portfolio Watch
21) Johnny Depp Pirates of The Caribbean
22) Mac OS X Tiger
23) Apple iPod
24) Most Expensive Car in The World
25) Green Tea

*When Oprah recently re-ran her story about the making of Il Divo, the result led to Rugged Elegance selling over 1,000 copies of Il Divo's CD.

If a "Platinum album" means selling one million CDs, does it mean that Rugged Elegance sales have gone "Copper" now that we've sold 1,000 Il Divo CDs.

Perhaps Simon Cowell, the producer of Il Divo, will send us a copper-plated version and another thank you note to Oprah.

Once again, it goes to show us and the world that Oprah Winfrey moves markets.

On a separate note, it is fascinating that Adidas made the Top 25 Products List. Incidentally, Reebok also was one of the top searches in Rugged Elegant Living this spring.

American Idol and 'Rent' The Movie directed by Chris Columbus, were the top performance stories written in Rugged Elegant Living this spring.

Regarding San Francisco's most search "Rugged Elegant Places of Taste", we have posted a separate story in SF.RuggedElegantLiving.com called:

Rugged Elegant Places of Taste in San Francisco: The Most Searched Keywords That Led People to 'RuggedElegance.com' This Spring

This summer, we will be in search of Select Establishments located in Portland Oregon, Portland, Kennebunkport and Wells Maine, Boston Massachusetts, New York City, Paris France, Barcelona Spain, Copenhagen Denmark and Stockholm Sweden -- to name a few destinations.

Those establishments which are selected will be profiled in RuggedElegance.com.

Correlating stories about our experiences at these hotels, restaurants, shops, and services will continue to be posted in RuggedElegantLiving.com.

Nominations from around-the-globe are being accepted now.

Thanks to Urchin Web Analytics Software for capturing this valuable web traffic data for us.

And thanks to Nick Miller, our mighty, behind-the-scenes Web "master" for setting up Urchin, as well for everything else he does for us.

Inspire & Be Inspired.

Here's to healthy, adventuresome, soulful, "rugged elegant" living!

~ Jennifer Carolyn King, Rugged Elegance, LLC