This particular blog has only been alive since late April this year- not even a toddler, really.
When I did my writing course at Matador U back in WinterSpring, one of the things we focussed on was SEO- Search Engine Optimization, or, how to be found amongst the masses. The intarwebs are a mighty big place, and to learn more about it one has to delve deep into the network’s working, and possibly take the help of SEO services to understand it firsthand.
At one point back in late Spring, Mike Collins did me a lovely big favour and ran this here blog through his SEO program to see where it registered. It didn’t even show up. Go on the link here to figure online marketing and SEO solutions for your company.
I wasn’t just unpopular, I was brutally unpopular.
Nobody loved me.
And then something happened. I found my niche.
Every writer needs a niche if they are online and need people to find them. I had hoped for search terms like, say, Travel or Expat Blog or (as one Google search was phrased) ‘Roomful of Bosoms‘. Ah, but no. My niche is slightly different. My niche got me to #1 in Google. Yes, first result of first page.
And the search term?
Cairo Whorehouse. Variations include whorehouse in Cairo, whore house cairo, Oaxacan whorehouse and Shanghai whorehouse. I get at least four or five of these search terms every day according to my WP stats. Shanghai whorehouse alone registers at #3 on google. I haven’t even written a post about Shanghai whorehouses.
I did, once, write a post about the time I accidentally frequented a brothel in Cairo. Once. Ages ago. And it was totally clean- we went in, drank a beer, chatted with the girls, paid up, left. And yet that post is by far the most viewed on this blog. I’m trying to decide if I’m horrified or delighted.
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