"The Internet is for Porn"

It's hard to do SEO for any length of time before running into adult sites that are highly optimized (aka spammed) messing up your rankings, even if your site isn't in that niche.

If you are in the niche, it's even worse. The keyword research alone is quite the eductation. Even totally mainstream sites have to be aware of the keywords used by people to look for these sites that may intersect with apparently innocuous keywords for your own.

I once did some work for a (now defunct) band called "Kiss The Midget" and the website logs were jammed searches from people looking for, um, little people love....

Another client made custom T-Shirts with logos on them, and I noticed a huge traffic spike right after adding several examples as part of the SEO for the site. At first, I thought it might have been due to my SEO efforts (and it was, partially) but the spike was way out of proportion to the potential market, so I got suspicious and went looking for a reason why. Turns out that one of the T-Shirts featured vinyl lettering with a "wet" look, and the combination of "wet" and "t-shirt", along with a site that was search engine friendly, propelled the site up in rankings for people looking for interesting pictures.

Unlike Pay Per Click (PPC), there is no ability to put negative keywords in organic designs, so sometimes wierd things happen, and you need to deal with it as an SEO.

In keeping with the theme of this post, I'd like to share a World of Warcraft (WOW) video (not kid friendly, but probably spouse friendly - it's tame) that had me almost rolling on the floor laughing.

It's based on a Google media search (see? I worked SEO into this post!):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645

It just occured to me that this blog entry is probably going to get a lot of traffic due to some of the keywords that I just used. :)

Ian