How to attract visitors?
During the year and a half I've been blogging, I written over 250 posts.
But one in particular, written well over a year ago, is still responsible for nearly 15% of all my daily visitors. People from all over the world come to see this post — day in, day out. Month in, month out. Amazing!
I wrote this particular post when I was in Berlin in February, 2007 and its subject matter was outdoor advertising along the famed Unter den Linden.
This is what I called the post: Giant Beautiful Naked Older Women in Public! Take a moment to check it out.
I thought it was a straight-forward post. But when I playfully wrote the title, I wasn't thinking of what the search engines would do with it.
It turns out that a lot of people go to Google and type in some variant of (can you imagine?):
- Naked women
- Older naked women
- Beautiful naked women
- Naked women in public
Because I have a Google Page Rank Number of 5, the above post usually ends up on page one of the seeker's query results. Then the seeker (with high hopes!) clicks on the link and ends up at the above post on my site. I have a feeling they are usually disappointed. Sometimes they look around further on my blog, but most of the time they go back to their Google query results.
This is what I've learned: Sex seems to attract visitors on the Internet! See if it works for you.
Absolutely true! My blog is dedicated to a discussion of elevating performance magic from the trivial. In one of my posts, I mentioned that the first magic shop I visited as a child was in the corner of an adult bookstore. My blog has been hit many times with many disappointed searchers.
Posted by: Fredrick | 13 March 2008 at 07:57 AM
Yep, Very True. I keep posting articles with tags like "poetry","wisdom", "art", "inspiration" etc. But that doesn't generate traffic. Just the mention of "sex", "nude" - then the traffic picks up. Ces't la vie!
Posted by: Avalok | 13 March 2008 at 11:09 AM
Fredrick and Avalok: Thanks for stopping by and providing your similar experiences with sex-related tags.
I wonder if this current post — with its sex-related title — will be my second most visited post?
Posted by: Roger von Oech | 13 March 2008 at 11:22 AM
I remember an article in one of my 'Writer's handbooks' that was entitled 'Sex Sells'...
I hope this comment doesn't lead ever more comments of the unprepared for serious discussion here...
Posted by: Free to think, free to believe | 13 March 2008 at 12:36 PM
This post made me smile--I just wrote about whales returning to Cape Cod--imagine what a post mentioning whale sex might bring in! Silly me, I just wrote they had been in the southlands mating and calving....;-)The post I get the most hits on is "pet peeves", usually by students who have typed in "pet peeve essay"
Posted by: Mary Richmond | 14 March 2008 at 05:48 AM
That was really funny Roger.
As an experiment, I tried all your suggested search variations (if I must, I must!). Only the last one had your site on the first page of results for me.
If I ever start my own blog, I'll make sure to put a risque title for every post :-)
Posted by: Jeff Mordan | 14 March 2008 at 04:35 PM
Jeff: Thanks for stopping by. I just looked into my stats for today and checked into the referring address of the links that led to my "Giant Beautiful Naked Older Women in Public" post.
Most are Google searches. And it's possible to see what the searcher typed into the query field and also on which page it was on query results. You're right that the above post is only page 4 when queried for "Naked women."
However, for today at least, it was page 1 when the searcher sought "older women," "naked American women," "happy older women," "older women," "naked late teens," etc.
Also, as I was looking at these stats, I noticed that most of the Google UK searches came around noon California time (which is in the early evening in GB).
I think this is all quite amusing!
Posted by: Roger von Oech | 14 March 2008 at 05:46 PM
I wrote a blog post about a book by a Japanese quilt maker. She coincidentally has the same name as a famous Japanese porn star. It is my most frequently visited post. Imagine the disappointment when the searcher finds quilts!
Posted by: terry grant | 23 March 2008 at 11:11 PM
These are all nice women picture and her all performance is very stagger .
Posted by: Sanjay | 12 April 2008 at 02:06 AM
Great blog. I am a pastor, and haev loved your stuff for years. "Whack" has been vital not just for sermon prep, but all ministry. Found your blog via Jonny Baker.
I really get a kick out of how people click onto my church and culture blog. I intentionally sometimes write provocative titles, but i had no indeed how many people searched for "naked church" or "naked models" of church(:
Jonny Baker and I have both linked to "xxxchurch.com: the #1 Christian porn site."
you can guess we get some hits(:
keep up the great work
Posted by: dave wainscott | 20 April 2008 at 05:28 PM
Sex sells, even if it is woman to woman. I think that older women are getting our attention too.
Posted by: enzyte male enhancement | 17 August 2008 at 11:17 PM
I wanted to see beautiful naked women. You showed me beautiful naked women. that is the internet working correctly.
Posted by: mark | 24 November 2008 at 06:49 AM