Sex sells. It’s pretty amazing how porn and sex can generate visitors to websites. On blog search engines that displays the most common search words you will see the top 3 searches are “sex”, “sexnovels” and ”sexblog”, the keywords used on more general search engines are probably more explicit and detailed than that.
When I was in highschool back in the mid 1990′s, when the world wide web was only months old, I made alittle experiment on my website at school. I created a page with just a couple of pornographic photos (videos on the web didn’t exist back then) and texts describing them. It didn’t take many days until I had 40,000 visitors per day (!) on a site that before was completely unknown, amazing, and this was in year 1995.
Lenny: Yeah, didn’t ya know? You’ve been world famous for an hour now.
Carl: You’re the internet’s number one non-porno site!
Lenny: ..which makes you ten-trillionth overall.
Quote from The Simpsons.
I have nothing against porn at all, don’t get me wrong. But its sellingpower and ability to attract attention is just completely amazing, always has been I guess. It’s much harder to make a popular non porno site. It will be fun to see if writing about this now will have an impact on visitor counts since I’ve used some popular keywords. Hey, also visit Penskyfiles.com, it’s a pretty fun non porno site where you can kill some time :).
