What most of the blog directories that require a recip link are missing

[walrus]

Originally Posted by ronnie

I'd be the first one to admit it takes time to write text for blogs, guess one of the drawbacks, not that I want to refer to it as a drawback, but you get my meaning. I know I dont always have time to actually write something, but there are other ways. If I had only a blog to take care of, it sure would be better than all the ones I have now..lol

ronnie

I don't know about your other blogs but the prostitute blog is a bomb. I love the concept and it is pretty well written. If I didn't know better I'd think you really were Lindsey....wait perhaps I dont know better....show me your

I'm afraid I've sort of taken this off topic. As a guy who knew he could grow his blog directory bigger / faster if he didn't require recips for the first few hundred submits and refused to go that route, I'll explain my side of the equation.

I knew if I opened it up, I'd get tons of submits but wanting to build something of quality, I didn't want to encourage a bunch of free-loaders to leach off the site. Plus I'm a patient person so if things went a little slower, thats cool in the end I'd get what I want.

Now I've got two mid-size blog directories that consistantly provide traffic to those that submit to me. Judging by the stats on my own blogs, I out perform almost all of the larger directories on a day to day basis. True, when you join some of the larger ones, you'll get a nice rush of traffic but within a week, it will be a mere trickle.

Now I'm not saying I'm sending out tons of traffic by any means but what I do send out is consistant and grows as my sites grow.

Plus the PR0 quality blog today will be a PR3 within 6 months, PR4 within a year and then I will have plenty of established blogs in my directory and I wont have freeloaders benefitting off the traffic that those that believed in what I was putting together have helped me to attract.