How are people finding SWAAY.org? There's a good common theme with search queries

by Furry Girl

10.03.11

My sex workers' rights information project, SWAAY.org, has been up and running for nearly 4 months now.  The majority of traffic to the site has been direct type-ins, which means people are coming to the site not from clicking links on other web sites, but from hearing the URL and typing it in on their own.  I like the idea of publicity for the site being mostly word-of-mouth.

But what about people who aren't finding SWAAY.org because they heard about it or saw a sticker somewhere?  The big common theme to the search queries used to find the site is that they are questions.  Over and over, people are coming to the site because they have questions about sex work, and I'm really happy to be able to provide them with answers written by sex workers with experience in their fields.  The most common search query
used to find the site has been some variation of, "what is it like to be a prostitute/escort?"  People are curious, and curiosity is the first vital step towards learning something.

Here are a bunch of search queries that have been used lately to find SWAAY.org - many of them used more than once - I thought people might find them interesting:

Also, in looking over the search queries, the other important thing to note is that most of them seem to be coming from members of the general public (and possibly aspiring sex workers).  While most sex workers' rights projects focus on sex work issues for sex workers, my focus is on reaching regular people.  It's hard to measure, but based on looking at my web stats, I think I'm succeeding.

 





2 Comments »

  1. Wow, great site full of information.

    Sadly you will not accomplish much in my view just like all the failures of SWOP for decade+ since you make no distinction between in private consenting adult sexwork (potential Lawrence vs Texas Constitutional issue and legal in all most all the world except the U.S.) vs the public nuisance street hooker support which has resulted in all the great ideas of SWOP to fail and is illegal in almost all the world.

    We need a SWOP, SWWB, SWAAY for in private consenting adults with your type of leadership and drive. Unfortunately none have survived.

    However very much support your idea, if was only limited to in private sexwork so would have some chance of law changes and more public support vs the anti-sex feminists like Farley etc. Farley was also totally discredited by the Ontario judge in the ongoing Canadian law change big fight. But in Canada in private has always been legal as in most of the world.

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    Comment by DaveinPhoenix — November 2, 2011 @ 11:28 pm

  2. You're absolutely right, asshole. I make zero moral distinction between better-than-every-one else sex workers like yourself and working class "nuisance" sex workers.

    Comment by Furry Girl — November 3, 2011 @ 11:40 am

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