How do blogs make money?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

The buzz is that blogs are more SE friendly - which is like the farthest thing from the truth.

I've noticed you seem to be "down" on blogs and SE in your last few posts. Care to elaborate a bit and perhaps explain how most of the comments I have read differ from just about any other adult site.

[Halfdeck]

perhaps explain how most of the comments I have read differ from just about any other adult site.

Walrus, I'm not sure what you're asking.

The only real advantage a blog platform has over other type of sites when it comes to search engines is its potential to gain organic links fast. I've seen one blog post on a high traffic blog pick up over 4,000 one-way links overnight. To match that with a LL you'd have to review 4,000 free site submissions, and at the end of the day you still end up with 4,000 reciprocal links which carry less value.

My blog isn't all that big (only TBPR 4 with around 300+ pages) but by picking up a few natural links from authority sites I see daily bot visits and deep indexing, where 90% of my blog is in the main index as opposed to the supplemental.

That's a huge advantage - not only are you gaining backlinks faster but you're getting one-way natural IBLs to your blog which Google loves.

But here's the problem. It works in mainstream but does it also work in adult? I've read several sex blogs that I linked to (girl with a one track mind, walking vixen, etc) but I've never felt compelled to link to a splog.

I don't link to blogs (but that's mostly because 99.44% of the porn blogs out there are fake)

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...t=39297&page=4

I agree with Greenguy.

There's nothing special about blogs structurally and you can frequently update any other type of website. Just look at this forum; it gets updated every day.