Sometimes, checking the search terms and keywords to my blog can be an hilarious experience. Other times it can be disturbing. I have absolutely no idea how the algorithms of Search Engines work, but I do know that some SE searchers find my blog using some very unique words and combinations of words. I can't say if Google is indexing every single word off my blog but from the bizarre search phrases I discover when I examine my server stats, I'm beginning to think so.

"I don't know why. I don't want to know why. I only know that I'm not the only adult webmaster to notice how much easier it is to get Google to index a blog than a general porn site."

In case you don't know this, there's some very good reasons why every webmaster message board is peppered with questions and threads about blogs and blogging:

A. You can't view a news program or talk show without hearing some mention of the blogs. Blogs have become part of the current popular culture. Bloggers appear as guests on CNN, FOX and even Comedy Central. Crack open practically any magazine on the newsstand and find an interview or fluff piece, centering on a blog or blogger or blogging in general. Pseudo-blog sites like those emanating from MySpace or Live Journal draw the attention and writings of musicians, fans, millions of college students and the occasional murdering psycho. Blogs are hot. This is evident.

B. The blog market is relatively new as far as adult webmasters are concerned. When I began my blog in late 2004, my fellow webmasters reacted to my enthusiasm less than enthusiastically. In 2004, blogs were in the realm of tech geeks, bored housewives and politics junkies. Sure, blog software was awesome cool but how does an adult webmaster make porn money with a blog full of boring old words? Just the same, forward-thinking porn webmasters jumped in the blog swim and uncovered a Search Engine heaven. After all those years of massaging keywords and Meta tags, after thousands of gallery pages made, after all that fighting against a traffic source determined to shut out porn, we found we could jump to the top of the results page through the courtesy of our blogs. Now adult webmasters are crazy for blogs and the potential is just in its infancy. Adult webmasters that start blogging now will be glad they did a year from now.

C. Adult webmasters love Search Engine traffic and Search Engines love blogs. The plain fact is that the surfers are on to us. They know how to find porn and when they go to a search engine looking for porn, they're going to use keywords and search terms long appropriated by veteran porn sites and SE gurus. Your new, conventional adult site simply isn't going to get anywhere near a page one result by incorporating Meta tags with search terms like "hot sluts", "gangbang sex" or any other porn-centric combination. Those days are gone. But for some reason that I am too superstitious to investigate, Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, all dig blogs. My blog gets tons of hits from search engine surfers and I haven't updated in over a month! I don't know why. I don't want to know why. I only know that I'm not the only adult webmaster to notice how much easier it is to get Google to index a blog than a general porn site.

Now that I have given you the skinny on why I think adult webmaster blogging is all the rage, let me return to this whole weird search term/keyword/referring business.

This last month, my blog was visited seven times by surfers using the search term "seventies porn". I have never ever written a post about porn from the 1970's. I do know that I have referred to the era of the 1970's many times in my blog and that the word "porn" is embedded in text at the top of my page. The word "porn" also appears several times in my Meta-tagged keywords and site descriptions. I used the word "porn" in my site description when I originally submitted it to DMOZ and a bunch of blog search engines. My all-time most popular referring search term is "Sharon Mitchell" and that comes from an image search. Plus, the "Sharon Mitchell" post actually resides on a Blogger blog that is one of the hub/spokes for my main blog. (I host images for my little blogs in a sub folder on my main blog.)

The creepiest search term comes as a result of one of my best posts. I wrote a thoughtful piece about Michael Jackson and how such a sweet boy grew up to be such a twisted adult. I love that post. Unfortunately, I get still get very bad people looking for very bad things from that post ­ almost three years after I wrote it. I often contemplate taking the MJ post and the link down. I still may.

The funniest search term referrals are the crazy ones. I know how they got to my blog. I just can't figure out why these insane people are allowed anywhere near machinery. For instance, some poor schlub has a bit of an obsession with some chick named Arlene. I wrote a post about the movie "Dick", starring Kirsten Dunst as "Betsy" and Michelle Williams as "Arlene". "Dick" was a great movie and Michelle Williams is a decent actress but I don't think her portrayal of the character "Arlene" has some sort of cult status. Nevertheless some pitiful goober hit my site three times last month, looking for "girls named arlene getting fucked".

Keep writing entries in your blogs, froggers. Write about whatever the hell you want, I'm not sure it really matters what you write as long as you write and don't stop writing. For once, with blogs, the traffic is the easy part!