UK Flickr Users Looking for Soft Porn
Thursday, August 31st, 2006;
-- Andy Beal |
If you’ve ever watched TV in England, you’ll know that soft porn is pretty easy to find - Channel 4 on a Saturday night should be your top target. So it’s not entirely surprising that those porn-obsessed Brits having driven Flickr to the #1 spot for UK photography sites.
As HitWise explains…
A quick analysis of Flickr’s clickstream and search terms led me to the conclusion that Flickr has grown through good SEO and specifically searches for soft-porn…the top terms sending visits to Flickr are searches for the brand (”flickr”, “flickr.com” and “flicker”) and soft porn terms (”boobs”, “transvestite” and “nudity” to name a few tame terms).
Via SEW - who picked-up the story so fast, that we suspect they have custom RSS feeds for any news that mention “boobs”. 
UPDATE: Crikey! This post is #11 on Google for the phrase “Soft Porn”! I’d like to apologize to all those visitors who thought they were going to get some soft porn, but ended up with a marketing blog.
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February 8th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
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