Quite a few months ago, I taught myself a lesson that I am relearning every day  I look at my blog stats. Both Google and wp-stats are telling the same tale of great SEO that was a total accident and is now unwelcome.

Yup, I totally screwed up and have been rewarded for it.

On September 13th, 2009, I published a post titled Freelance Writer Or Crack Whore without realizing just how popular crack whores are on the Internet. Every day I am delivered a handful of traffic that has something to do with crack whores or five dollar jobs. But, alas not much in the way of freelancing.

So, I went to do some research on just how well that post was doing in the SERPs, but first I checked out the keyword crack whore and found that there were well over 2,000 search queries yesterday alone. Pretty impressive.

But, as far as the SERPs go, that post is no where to be found in the top five pages on the top three search engines, with the exception of…

…page one on Google, and that was in Google’s Friends In My Social Network feature.

I don’t think I’ll ask which of my friends have been researching crack whores. Just wouldn’t be prudent.

What I will wonder about is whether or not I discovered a niche, and if there is a way I can exploit that niche. Are the affiliate marketing products for crack whores? I wonder what kind of ads Google’s adsense would throw up on the site?

Oh, wait! What about about an eco-friendly market? Green crack whores? Nah, that will most likely draw a crowd looking for fresh on the streets coke heads.

Oh well, whatever the outcome is, I’m sure I will be rewarded another year’s worth of traffic when I publish this post.

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