A strange study from Cplumbia University on Hookers. It seems 83% of them have Facebook pages and get 25% of their business from there. Funnily enough - it didn't seem to mention any other electronic means - Do you think they use SEO?
As a slightly related aside, for the term "edinburgh brothels" an article I did years ago on EdinburghSucks.co comes up #1 in Google from here and the site gets between 18-25 clickthroughs a day from Google for that search term although it is the only article on brothels (unless you consider the politicians to be prostitutes then the whole site is about them).
(https://th3core.com/chat/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allfacebook.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F02%2Fhooking.png&hash=2a1348292f74732eb4351552e42dc6b4b9fed9a1)
aaah - I saw a headline yesterday (The Register I think) that said hookers are moving from myspace to facebook - guess this is the source. Does that graphic mean that people stopped going to strip clubs to stay home and have a soapy looking at Facebook? Wow this is some mixed up world!
Ugh, have to admit something here. I did SEO for a london escort in the past. Not my proudest project, but it was a while back and times were tough. I'm also a bit of a sucker for doing work for people who have previously been ripped off by shady SEOs who can't bring results.
That was pre social revolution days, so I am sure that the landscape has changed. However the SEO side was reasonably competive. Lots of people working quite hard, but not too smart. Quite a few topical networks in place. The agencies seemed, then at least, to be using pretty standard strategies. The independents were largely using small specialist SEOs who had their own grubby network of "escort directory" type sites. I always got the feeling that lots of them thought they were 1337 blackhat seos, but were always a few years behind the game. Lots of keyword stuffing, link exchange scams, banner exchanges (yeah, wtf), comment spam etc.
The girl I did the work for claimed that most of her work came from the website. She tracked this pretty well, using different mobile numbers for different marketing methods. That last bit stuck in my mind as it struck me as rather savvy compared with most self-employed people from the non-web world.
Quote from: Rooftop on February 09, 2011, 09:45:37 AM
She tracked this pretty well, using different mobile numbers for different marketing methods.
I have a plumber friend who does exactly the same. He carries round up to 5 mobile phones at a time but mostly 3 depending on where he has ads. He told me that he used to have 3 ads in YP each with a different number to see which one worked best.
five physical phones? That's keen!
I'm pretty sure that most operators let you map multiple numbers to one device and you can have distinctive rings. Certainly I did that a decade+ ago on Orange. It's the only way I could seperate the calls I took in the day as a mild mannered web guys and the calls coming in for my super-hero alter ego.
Hmm.. reminds me. I've been meaning to try SwitchboardFree (googleanalytics tracking of calls) for some time
is that available in the UK now? When it ws first announced I thought it was going to be a game changer (since clients are really enthusiastic about it as a free service but refuse to pay to do it otherwise) but then I discovered you couldn't get it in the UK and forgot about it.