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[Useless]

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.

[webpimp]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

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.

Almost none of my blog traffic comes from people putting 'blog' in their search queries. But blogs get the added bonus of appearing in blog search engines like Technorati and Google Blog Search.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

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.

I think this is what makes blogs superior for getting SE traffic, blogs are intended to have lots of text. When I put in work and feed the spiders lots of keywordy text, I usually notice a jump in my SE traffic. TGPs and linklists don't have nearly as much unique text as a regularly updated blog with at least a paragraph of text per post.

I also believe that an incoming link from a good blog is a very valuable thing because (when done right) your link is surrounded by massive amounts of highly relevant text.

Originally Posted by artwilliams

What I found was that you can only work on so many things well. Turns out important things get neglected. What makes me feel stupid is I consciously decided to "put all my eggs in one basket" and then went and did the opposite.

Smart people don't succeed in business because they are constantly learning something new. When they master it, they get bored and move on to something more challenging. Dumb people are way more successful because they just learn one fucking thing, and they do it over and over again without ever getting bored.

Originally Posted by walrus

Your choice was become a nerd or go with a free host. Once the free hosts started kicking porn off, it opened up a whole new area for someone like twan to take advantage of and he did.

With free hosted blogs it's so easy to mass-produce blog of low quality. But at the same time, free hosted also opens up an opportunity to real bloggers who don't have any tech knowledge but are good writers.

I don't trade with splogs, but I have built a few. They can come in handy for filtering your traffic into related niches and subniches. Say you have an asian blog that you put a lot of time into and gets decent traffic, you could create a bunch of splogs like asian babes, asian anal, asian bjs, asian teens, etc. The splogs aren't really meant to pull SE traffic (although they sometimes do), you're just providing every possible type of content the visitor is likely to enjoy. You may not get a whole lot of traffic to the splogs, but it will be high-quality traffic that is likely to buy if he sees just the right thing that does it for him. I don't have the time to build a real blog for each and every one of those subniches, but having a splog is better than leaving a gap.

[papagmp]

I just reviewed some stats for the last 6 months my hand-written blogs are doing great

Blog 1
Blog 2
Blog 3
Blog 4 (Mainstream)

Two of my hand-written blogs are too new to have any meaningful stats so I didn't post them here.

The splogs are doing OK but not pulling the traffic that the blogs are - about 20% of my splogs are down in traffic.

Spolg 1
Spolg 2
Spolg 3
Spolg 4
Spolg 5

The last month stats are for 1/2 the month so it looks like the trends will continue.


I know it's not necessarily concussive but I'm not giving up on blogging yet.

[Simon]

Walrus ... I think you, TPat and I (and probably more than a few others here) have the same rant we're holding back.

I'm thinking we may need to create a thread for program owners looking to add RSS feeds to their program or improve their existing ones. Sort of like the threads we had some time ago about what program owners should know about building hosted free sites (not that so many read/listened even then).

Then we could point the program reps, affiliate managers and owners to that thread for advice on what they should and should never include in their feeds, and how to never format anything in them in advance, etc...

Maybe two threads, one in which we collect everyone's feedback on what makes a very good versus a very bad feed, and then another thread where we publish the 'collected wisdom' for feed producers to use.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming of a more perfect world again.

[T Pat]

I've been biting my tongue for months, I agree Simon it's time to start a thread on RSS Feed do's and do not's

Originally Posted by Simon

Walrus ... I think you, TPat and I (and probably more than a few others here) have the same rant we're holding back.

I'm thinking we may need to create a thread for program owners looking to add RSS feeds to their program or improve their existing ones. Sort of like the threads we had some time ago about what program owners should know about building hosted free sites (not that so many read/listened even then).

Then we could point the program reps, affiliate managers and owners to that thread for advice on what they should and should never include in their feeds, and how to never format anything in them in advance, etc...

Maybe two threads, one in which we collect everyone's feedback on what makes a very good versus a very bad feed, and then another thread where we publish the 'collected wisdom' for feed producers to use.

Or maybe I'm just dreaming of a more perfect world again.