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Sunday, February 16, 2003

And You People Think I'm a Perv?
The No. 1 use for search engines is trolling for porn. How do I know? By checking my referrer logs through a free service called InterTracker. I just pop some JavaScript code onto my pages and watch it tell me where my visitors are coming from. So I know every time another website is linking to me (always encouraged and appreciated) and what searches people have conducted to arrive here.

Between 4-11 a.m. ET Sunday, 130 visitors came to my site through Google. Another 69 came through Yahoo!. Another 50 came through Google's foreign services. As always, the significant majority of the searches were sex-related.

Did you know that the week of Sept. 11, 2001 was the only one in which major search engines reported that sex was not the most-often searched topic? I did and was not surprised at all.

I get asked a lot how best to attract search engine traffic. There's a million things I could suggest in this era of PageRank, the way in which Google arrives at its order. Your site needs clout — achieved by links to your site, hopefully from other sites of prominent standing — and you need a search-engine friendly page for people to land on. Don't link to stuff with phrases like "click here" and "this is some crazy shit." You're better off with "Britney Spears' Super Bowl outfit" or "porn star midget's home page" or "jello wrestling contest pictures with people urinating in the background." 'Cause that's what people search for.

I've slowly built up my site's standing with Google over nearly three years of hard work. There hasn't been one time when I've tricked anyone into a topsites list or begged for reciprocal links, or any of those other cheap ways people whore for traffic. I did, however, build a legitimate search-engine friendly archive page. It remains the third-most trafficked page on my site, after the home page and my top 10 favorite MILFs. People search for MILFs. A lot.

Here's a look at where I stand on Google for actual searches that landed on PaulKatcher.com between 4 a.m.-11 a.m. Sunday, with links to the results pages to see what kind of company I am in.

• No. 1 for "subway jared"
• No. 1 for "'pictures of Chris Farley dead"'
• No. 1 for "shocking cancer pics"
• No. 2 for "bachelor parties"
• No. 2 for "innie outie bellybutton photo"
• No. 2 for "bachelorette party pictures nude"
• No. 2 for "topless neighbors"
• No. 2 for "fawnia mondey naked photos"
• No. 3 for "women, swimsuit, underwater"
• No. 3 for "milfs playboy"
• No. 3 for "you're the best around and nothing's gonna ever get you down lyrics"
• No. 4 for "south beach pictures"
• No. 5 for "club med nude photos"
• No. 5 for "amazing paul"
• No. 5 for "bikini contest playboy"
• No. 6 for "nude scene"
• No. 6 for "video 'wet t-shirt contest'"
• No. 6 for "search for ace frehley sites"
• No. 6 for "female bodybuilder legs"
• No. 8 for "porn fitness divas"
• No. 9 for "spring break cancun pics"
• No. 8 for "hedonism"
• No. 9 for "hooters gretchen"

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Comments: And You People Think I'm a Perv?

Google searches rock. My favorite strings that lead to my page include:
"Scott Dodgin is an asshole"
"Taco Bell sour cream gun fucking fetish"
and
"Andy Mayberry women nude."

You think YOU have perverts?

Posted by gjoe at February 16, 2003 10:43 PM

google searches scare the living hell out of me....i try to disable any and all forms of entry from my page via a search engine...i'm not successful, of coure, but some of the things that i see on my referral logs just plain bug me out.

but i am all ABOUT reciprocal linking...

Posted by jen at February 16, 2003 11:24 PM

no midget porn??? and I've even shared my mail with ya :)

Posted by gnome-girl at February 17, 2003 6:40 PM

I occasionally will go to a site, www.wordtracker.com. The Wordtracker people are able to tell us what words are being searched the most. The list today shows, in order, the most popular search words being: 1. jokes. 2. autos. 3. health. 4. travel. 5. people search. 6. free e-cards., etc.

I don't know that it means anything, but it's kind of interesting to see what people are searching for on the Internet.

Posted by Joe DiGiovanni at February 17, 2003 6:44 PM

There are a lot of search-term trackers. They all eliminate sex terms, otherwise they would dominate the list.

The most popular is the Lycos 50. Also of note is the Google Zeitgeist and the Yahoo! Buzz Index.

Posted by Paul Katcher at February 17, 2003 7:20 PM
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