Facibus On Blogging

I mentioned before that there are keywords that are worth links just in and of themselves - like references to Paris Hilton’s nether parts.

Let’s face it - sex sells. Blogs that use a lot of “bikini babe” photos seem to do well - even if they are about technology or car reviews.

How do you use this to your advantage without compromising your integrity? Or are you prepared to do whatever it takes to get your blog promoted?

Here are a couple of ways that you could do this:

• discuss your personal life every now and then and be open and honest with your audience about your past misdeeds/misadventures (although beware the risk of becoming less employable as a result). There are a number of highly respected bloggers who have taken time out every so often to discuss their bodies/relationships/relatives and sprinkle a few sex-linked keywords in their posts - and I’d be really surprised if they have not all gained some traffic that way from the porn-hunting public.
• join campaigns like Boobiethon - while breast cancer is a very serious subject, I’m amazed that there have been linkbacks to my post on Boobiethon from full-on porn directories. I’ve marked them as comment-spam so that they don’t show up, but even still, the mere mention of breasts brings out the savage beast (at least in those who are running porn directory autoblogs).

As the comments on Better to be hated than ignored? show, it can be hard working out if you really want traffic from people looking for porn (unless you are actually running a porn site, that is).

What do you think? Is a little titillation good for your numbers? Or would it make you feel cheap?