State of Blogging

[ronnie]

For sure this side of the net is all money and reason we dont give out a link without getting something back.

ronnie

[anasporn]

And it may also be why we will never turn the blog numbers the mainstream side of the house has...unless you have 100 or 1,000 of your own blogs interlinked into a network, you'll never have the amount of link exchange. But when you get that big...how can you keep them updated and keep them from all sounding the same?

[bunky2u]

Originally Posted by anasporn

And it may also be why we will never turn the blog numbers the mainstream side of the house has...unless you have 100 or 1,000 of your own blogs interlinked into a network, you'll never have the amount of link exchange. But when you get that big...how can you keep them updated and keep them from all sounding the same?

hell of a good point. In that tut i was reading the fellow claimed that he had a generic post and he would edit it to some degree. Even so, it would still look and sound the same.

It is easier to get 50 surfers to 100 diff sites than 5000 to only one. Even so it's still difficult to work with just a few sites when you can only do this part time.

bunky

[walrus]

Which brings you back to the old quality vs quantity thing. If I can convert at 1:200 while the other guy is converting 1:1000, then I only need 1,000 visitors a day to make the same amount of $$$.

Which means in your limited amount of time, your spending your time working your traffic instead of working to update your network of blogs.

Don't misunderstand, I do think "serial" blogging can make you money but, I'm not convinced, that in the long run it will make you any more money than building quality blogs.

[RawAlex]

walrus, you hit the nail on the head. I have seen the numbers from some of these mainstream blogs, and man, they ain't making shit.

http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/...-pro-for-sale/

These are the numbers for blogging pro - alexa rank around 26k, but only turning $200 revenue a month. That is really, really painful thing to see and shows that they are not turning their traffic into revenue in the slightest. It is not a good situation.

An adult site ranking 26k in alexa would be turning some fairly decent money.

Merely trading around traffic and being nice doesn't make you very much money at all. $200 a month to run a site ranked that high is beer money.

Alex

[bunky2u]

...hell all I am making at this point is beer money. But then again, it's better than nothing. I know that given the time and patience I will be able to make a go of this full time.

OK while I am here would you guys care to look at http://www.strippedgalleries.net/ again as I have changed the colours and text. I would have liked to have been able to set the template so it doesn't run away on bigger screens, but that will have to come in time. (editing stuff isn't my forte, but hey I am willing to learn.)

bunky

[RawAlex]

Bunky, you are making beer money but you are making it with only a comparative few visitors... they are making beer money with almost 5k visits per day... yowsa!

I tried to check your site, but the connection is timing out here for some reason.

Alex

[bunky2u]

k done tinking around with the width... I found out what to edit in the css table... it was set for 100% , now it's at 95%

timing out... bummer. it seems to do that whenever I am editing it.

in the past two months my sites DB and SG have earned me approx $750.00. It's a pretty healthy beer fund I guess.

bunky

[Halfdeck]

I've got a ton of mainstream blog RSS feeds hitting my machine every few minutes, but it's tough to find one adult blog even worth bookmarking. I wonder why?

Alot of webmasters seems to make no distinction between a TGP and a blog. Hey, post a few pics, wrap it with some bullshit spider food and throw a sponsor link in there and I should make a few sales right? Yeay maybe, but that's not a blog.

I also don't believe mainstream bloggers make all that much money, and that would be truely sad if they were desperately blogging to put food on the table; but I'm sure guys like Matt Cutts have other sources of revenue besides their blog

For sure this side of the net is all money and reason we dont give out a link without getting something back.

I link to other people's sites without a thought on my mainstream blog. With adult blogs, it's "oh, I can't link to this guy I'm gonna create a traffic leak" or "oh, I'll link to you even if I think your site looks like garbage because I want to rank higher in Google." If I find a paysite I dig, I'll think "hey, I want to link to this paysite, where the hell can I find their ref code?"

But this type of shit goes on in the mainstream too, which is one reason guys like John Scott is giving away 10,000 bucks to encourage bloggers to link to non A-List blogs once in a while.

As for strippedgalleries Bunky, I would ditch the dark text. Colors aren't everything, but they get in your way if you can't read what's on the page. Also, I read a few pages of your blog, and it looks to me like you're either talking about a long day at work or posting an ad. If you're going to cover multiple topics, I'd create multiple categories. Last thing -- on one page you're got interracial, masturbation, ebony, and toy content. I would narrow it down a little more.

[bunky2u]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

As for strippedgalleries Bunky, I would ditch the dark text. Colors aren't everything, but they get in your way if you can't read what's on the page. Also, I read a few pages of your blog, and it looks to me like you're either talking about a long day at work or posting an ad. If you're going to cover multiple topics, I'd create multiple categories. Last thing -- on one page you're got interracial, masturbation, ebony, and toy content. I would narrow it down a little more.

thanks for the input Halfdeck. Actually I kinda need to keep the text dark. Some parts of the admin section of the site doesn't seem to be affected by what I do with the css table. White text is damn near impossible to read on a light gray background.

That page that you are talking about has a few galleries that fall into those categories... I think that's the only one like that, maybe not.

Soap Box is where I spout off about my life (some of it is BS), and Naked Porn News is where I post latest news on sites and who has been featured. Sometimes I combine a post with both categories. Today I didn't. http://www.strippedgalleries.net/node/165

I have been getting some excellent advice from you guys, thanks for all the help!

bunky

[anasporn]

Halfdeck...it seems that Mr John Scott has started a tempest in a teapot on the mainstream side....>evil grin<...wonder what his reaction would be if WE joined in???

[jaron]

Hi Bunky2u,
I think your blog colors look OK, but you should think about using CSS to float your images so the text runs down the side, rather than underneath the images. Will give your Blog a better appearance.

Just my thoughts... Jaron

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by ronnie

For sure this side of the net is all money and reason we dont give out a link without getting something back.

ronnie

Not true for me. I linked to Anas panties blog from my main article during superbowl week, of course I'm a steelers fan and they were steelers panties. I link to lukeford.com on occassion when Fayner writes something noteworthy to me.

I'd link to others, but I don't have the time in the day to work two jobs, and maintain my sanity let alone read all the text heavy blogs out there that I know I'd enjoy reading (Walrus' and Boogies to name the two that come to my mind first).

I avoided posting in this thread because when I started blogging, I really made it personal and as time went on I moved away from personal exposition and I'd bet that now some would view my site as sploggy, and I didn't wanted to be labelled as such.

Am I a splog, am I a clog, I don't know. Personally I like to think I lie somewhere in between trying to make money off of my postings and enjoying what I am doing, and sure somedays I just don't feel like posting but feel like I have to anyways, and I come up with something generic. Should I have to fear criticism from my peers because I posted some hack-kneed sales jargon to push one of my favorite sponsors? I guess my hope is my peers will understand me enough not to criticize.

Anyway, there's one depraved Preacher's 2 cents.

[anasporn]

Preach, I've found my bookmarks jump whenever I post something personal (like a panties shopping trip) and had some great bookmarking during the playoffs, ESPECIALLY with the Steelers panties LOL. Now I am looking for some Cubbies panties for baseball season

Yes, it does take me longer to write my posts, and yes I am making a blog that is "sales-oriented" with a totally different feel to it. It will probably end up being entertaining to some who will bookmark, but I don't intend to put as much time into it as I do my 3 main blogs. Hopefully it will function as a feeder.

Have I stepped over to the dark side of blogging? LOL Naw...go check out my latest post on Ana's Porn Blog and you'll see I'm still being personal and chatty with my readers. If you like what you read, link to it! I follow links back to the blogs they come from and read, and if I find something I like I link to it, sometimes without even telling the blog owner. DO I worry it might be a traffic leak? Not one bit...I know from my server stats my readers return regularly.

[Jimmer]

I always link to other sites with mypornlinks.com/wordpress/, (damn, I wish I didn't make a wordpress directory when I set it up), because the whole premise of it was to post stuff I found interesting, hence mypornlinks. I used to use it as a link site but a former partner tired of updating it and we changed it. Now that I run it again and blogs came along it makes a great blog domain. I've decided to try to improve my other blogs.

[uno]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Splog software isn't really a very different idea from automated sites makes, automated submission tools, or just about any other "auto" thingie to spew pages. The difference in the blog world is that it destroys or somehow violates a sort of trust that exists between reader and blogger. Even on the most commercial of blog sites, there is some sort of "I know a person wrote this" feeling that makes the blog more or less real.

splogs and cross linked bullshit are just that, and while they will likely score well with SEs for a while, they are the reasons why, in the end, filters will be written and innocent people will get punished in Google's SERPs.

It truly sucks.

Alex

Splogs are already starting to implode.

[uno]

Originally Posted by bunky2u

ah but that's google. If a person were to work a good hardlink strategy and provide comments on other blogs, that in itself is the nature of blogging and it is "google-proofed" so to speak.

I think I need to work on providing better comments on other people blogs... need to set aside some time to do that.

bunky

Generally, playing by the "rules" should be fine and acceptable and not get you banned. There will always be ones who are unfairly banned, but my hope is that will be the exception rather than the rule.