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Originally Posted by T Pat

50,000 Russians can't be wrong

Tell that to the people of Georgia. (I love current event jokes, even when they aren't funny.)

Originally Posted by ronnie

It's funny how just every LL or directory will not accept or list free hosted free sites, but they are happy to list and trade with free hosted blogs.

Yeah, I've never quite understood why free hosted blogs are considered legitimate while other free hosted properties are heavily frowned upon.

Originally Posted by Walrus

I agree but it is becoming harder to get traffic to a real blog than it was just a year ago. I blame the shear quantity of crap that's out there and there is really very few places for a quality adult blog to be seen.

One of the issues is what ronnie is saying. Blog directories and link lists are supporting shit. New blog directories, just like new link lists, accept everything submitted to them in order to fill themselves with content and appear established. It's a huge mistake. You are what you eat, after all.

Also, blogs shouldn't compare their traffic to only that of other blogs, because that's not how Google is doing it. Traffic should be compared to the entire porn landscape, per search phrase. I have no idea how many surfers actually search for adult blogs. I assume most of them find blogs by luck of the draw while searching for tits and ass, which is the same way link lists get much of their traffic. (why would anyone WANT to find a link list?)

I built a niche blog exactly 23 days ago. All hand written posts with one thumb linked to a gallery which the post discussed/described. A couple of posts were based on text found on the gallery themselves, but heavily edited to not appear the same. I linked to the blog from a couple of my sites and Alexa, Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp showed up that same day. I've done no pinging. The next day I had 8 uniques and within 6 days I had 58 uniques. For the last two weeks, without any further promotion or updates to the blog itself, it has received an average of 140 uniques per day with about 2.5 pageviews per visitor. About 80% is from Mother Google and is based on 2-6 word search phrases. Now, 140 uniques per day isn't exactly exciting, but it's enough to make me think that it's probably worthwhile to build more niche-specific blogs and watch their growth. The problem is - and this going to be a big surprise to you - blogs are a lot of fucking work.