I would say, as Walrus is talking about sponsors feeds for blogs, that my normal standard for a quality post is different than my answer to this post.
Noone could, or should, ask for any sponsor to write them the long personal
blog entries, would not be a feed if they did lol... but I agree, sponsor feeds are bad for most parts.
How much can you expect from a sponsor? In my opinion the sponsors giving away the blog feeds on top of all other promotion stuff are feeding webmasters almost oo much, soon noone have to do "anything" to get a domain filled, it be galleries, freesites (though they suck as bad as the blog feeds lol) and the feeds... yeah and of course the banners and promotion pics, video clips and so on.
But, IF sponsors are offering feeds, they should be offering feeds webmasters can and will use... If not, it's just money down the drain. Putting down a lot of time and money to offer feeds they should at least make feeds that
a: webmasters want to use
b: have enough text for the spiders
c: have text that catches the surfer, and keeping him at your site
d: have text and pics that makes the surfer want to see more, maybe
even pay to get access to the content.
Linking single words (a lot of guys would click on the word "pussy" if it was linked to something, it's human nature to be curious) could be a smart move.
Having text that actually fits the picture AND the site the links leads to would be nice. (I don't give a damn if the girl on the pic got the hawtest ass on this side of the milkyway if the paysite the surfer will see shows no hot asses on the first page......)
A better variety of words used in the different feeds, as it is now, you can have sponsor feeds making your blog sound almost the same in each post. A blog feed is not the same as 8 long descriptions for a gallery put together....... That makes no sense to me, and will not make any sense to the surfer visiting my site.
So, guess T Pats description fits well in my eyes for a sponsor feed, all though that don't come close to what I would call a quality post in any way..... But guess we are talking about FEEDS not POSTS here, in my eyes that's two different things... If you're looking for quality, personal, unique (fill in any other words you can think of), then write your own stuff
Guess my point is, nothing comes for free in this world, and even though
sponsors could and should do a lot better on this than they are, we can't ask for any miracles.......
Sorry for the long answer, probably not making any sense to anyone but myself lol |badidea|
Edit: damn k-key on my keyboard gets stuck lol