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How Do People Find My Blog

I had a look at Google Webmasters the other day because I wanted to see how Google is steering people towards my blog. In other words, which keywords or phrases are people googling when they end up here? Now, I’ve heard that there’s a lot of sex and porn on the internet – yes, I “heard” – and some even say that that is what the internet is for. Still, I was shocked to learn that even my utterly chaste corner of the internet is a destination for sex searchers. Here’s a list, for the last month or so, of the most important queries used to reach my blog:

It’s some consolation that the places below the first spot are taken by queries that do indeed capture my content quite well – although I also seem to have a lot of neglected content (there’s no mention of “justice”, “ethics”, “equality” etc.). Also, when I remove the Google image searches from this list, the sex disappears, fortunately.

Of course, it’s not without reason that Google leads a lot of sex searchers to my blog. I do write about sex now and again, but only when there is a connection to human rights. And when I do, it’s squeaky clean. Here are some examples of posts:

I realize that publishing this list will confuse Google even more, and frustrate many future searchers. But look at it as my personal revenge against the objectifiers of women.

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2 thoughts on “How Do People Find My Blog

  1. Absurdly, by far the largest number of visitors to my blog are directed to this page:
    http://blog.sameerpadania.com/2011/01/24/aj-daulerio-and-the-ethics-of-online-video/
    which is in fact (disappointingly for them) a discussion of the ethics of posting a video, rather than a link to the privacy-invading video itself.

    And when I ran the WITNESS Hub (hub.witness.org) our most-viewed video was a video testimony from “Japan Sex Slaves” – we ended up re-titling the video…

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