The King of Sex…Not Who You Think

The adult industry is undoubtedly one of the biggest markets out there and even though most of our nation frowns upon the thought of it, it’s big business. I understand we don’t want our kids to see it, but they will…eventually. It often makes me wonder if we weren’t so against it, if it would still be as big as it is. Or would it be even bigger.

When it comes to the online market, the adult industry has always been big because it gave the user the anonymity that most preferred without having to pull over to some abandoned looking building on the outskirts of town and do the ultimate walk of shame…twice. The adult related keywords are highly searched and if you were to take a guess who would dominate these terms, like ‘sex’, who would you guess? How about Funny or Die?

I hadn’t received a newsletter from them in a while, until the other day. It made me wonder if the website has lost it’s position as it had a couple of years ago. What I found was kind of shocking. If you do a search for “sex” in Google, you’ll find FOD right at the top. What is even more amazing is to view what SEMRush knows about them. They dominate the sex related keywords. They do have videos that parody sexually related skits, but it’s far from being a porn site. What they have done is found an angle to shoot traffic through the roof, which I’m sure coincided with ad revenue. When imagining Will Ferrell having a business meeting to discuss all of this, all I can see is this.

According to the SEMRush traffic graph, their traffic almost doubled from Nov’13 to Dec’13

Then look at their keyword domination and you’ll see that ‘sex’ makes up for a third of their traffic and they have over 40k page one results with most being adult related

Since search engines really aren’t keen on porn, why not make your site relevant to a busy market in some form so you can boost your traffic? FOD’s biggest competition, when it comes to this topic, is Break.com. Their graphs show they fair a little better in the number of page 1 results.

Their traffic has increased recently:

And their keyword breakdown:

After some fun with excel, I took the top 200 keywords for FOD, and sorted them by shortest words first. The shorter keywords are always harder to rank for versus the longer keywords. Enjoy the list.

Keyword	Position	Traffic(%)		Keyword	Position	Traffic(%)
sex	1	34.76		bigbrest	1	0
xxx	3	6.65		bigpenis	1	0.01
nake	1	0.08		blo jobs	3	0
s ex	1	0.01		blw jobs	1	0
se x	1	0.03		call sex	1	0
sexi	2	0.07		celebsex	3	0
sexs	3	0.06		cher sex	3	0
sexy	1	4.66		dog rape	3	0
a xxx	2	0		ex tapes	1	0
bo ob	1	0		fail sex	1	0
i sex	1	0		film sex	2	0.03
naked	3	0.73		film sxx	1	0
naket	3	0		gail sex	2	0
o xxx	3	0		gal sexy	1	0
r xxx	3	0		hand sex	3	0
se xy	1	0		hot giol	2	0
sex a	2	0		hot girl	2	0.31
sex i	1	0		hot glrl	1	0
sex t	1	0		hot grij	2	0
tit s	2	0		hot gril	2	0
xxx i	3	0		hot grul	2	0
xxx w	1	0		hot jirl	1	0
xxx.c	1	0.02		hote sxe	2	0
po rno	3	0		hotgerle	2	0
porn s	1	0.01		hotghirl	2	0
pu ssy	2	0		hotgiarl	2	0
pube 8	1	0		hotgrles	2	0
pussie	1	0.06		hothirls	3	0
sax.cm	1	0		jew girl	2	0
sex gi	1	0		kinkysex	1	0.01
sexy g	1	0		leak sex	1	0
slu ts	1	0		leov sex	3	0
ww.sax	1	0		lez chat	1	0
ww.sxe	3	0		life sex	1	0
ww.you	3	0		love sxe	3	0
boob.cm	1	0		naked gi	1	0.01
but sex	1	0.02		naked wo	3	0
catporn	3	0		nastyass	2	0
eva sex	1	0		niga sex	1	0
hot gir	2	0		nude pic	2	0.04
hot grl	2	0		nude piz	2	0
hotgirl	2	0.01		nudepics	2	0.01
hotgril	2	0		nudr pic	2	0
hotgrli	1	0		nudy pic	2	0
lol sex	1	0		nufe pic	2	0
nud pik	2	0		nuid pic	2	0
nudepik	2	0		pawn sex	2	0
phonsex	3	0		phon sex	3	0
pic sex	3	0.01		poan pic	3	0
porn st	1	0		pornfilm	2	0
pussies	2	0.06		pornstar	3	0.12
realsex	3	0		prom hub	2	0
sax hot	2	0		pube pic	2	0
sax sax	3	0		robotsex	1	0
sax www	1	0		s3x tape	1	0
sax.c0m	1	0		sax move	1	0
sax.cam	1	0		sax movi	3	0
sax.cem	1	0		sax poto	2	0
sax.cim	1	0		sax vedo	3	0
sax.cmo	1	0		sax vide	1	0
sax.cnm	1	0		sax vido	3	0
sax.com	2	0		sax.come	1	0
sax.cpm	1	0		sax.coms	1	0
sax.vom	1	0		sax.coom	1	0
sex lol	1	0		saxy grl	1	0
sex pec	1	0		sex apes	1	0
sex rea	2	0		sex call	1	0
sex sex	3	0.01		sex fail	1	0.01
sexfilm	3	0.01		sex film	2	0.05
sexgirl	1	0.05		sex fims	2	0
sexline	1	0		sex firm	1	0
sexlove	1	0		sex gail	2	0
sexmove	1	0.03		sex gerl	1	0
sextape	2	0.06		sex girl	1	0.28
sexy gi	3	0		sex guro	1	0
snl tsa	2	0		sex indu	2	0
tap sex	1	0		sex leak	1	0
wildsex	3	0		sex line	1	0.02
ww.sexy	1	0		sex move	2	0.02
ww.sexy	2	0		sex pawn	2	0
www.sax	1	0		sex pohe	1	0
xex cam	2	0		sex real	1	0
xxx img	1	0		sex tale	2	0
xxx vdo	1	0		sex tape	3	0.26
xxx xxx	1	0.03		sex taps	2	0
xxx.ccm	2	0		sex vdeo	2	0
xxx.clm	2	0		sex vedo	3	0
xxx.cmo	2	0		sex.come	1	0
xxx.cnm	1	0		sexphone	1	0
xxx.coe	1	0		sexvideo	3	0.08
xxx.coo	2	0		sexy gal	2	0
xxx.cow	1	0		sexy lad	3	0
xxx.cpm	2	0		sexy nsa	2	0
xxx.cvm	2	0		sexy pic	2	0.03
xxx.eom	1	0		sexy usa	3	0
xxx.oom	3	0		sexy.cnm	1	0
bad porn	1	0.02		sexy.cnm	2	0
big bust	1	0.01		sexygame	1	0
bigbrest	1	0		sexygirl	1	0.04
bigpenis	1	0.01		sey gril	1	0
blo jobs	3	0		show sxe	2	0