Blog POSTS on a Link List

[SaucyPanties]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Thus far, the blog post guidelines are as follows:

* No free hosts or sponsor hosting.
* The parent blog must be on its own domain. No blog hosting services allowed.
* The parent blog must be surfer/browser friendly. No pop-ups or redirection.
* A one time reciprocal link to http://www.----.com is required with ---- as the anchor text from the parent blog.
* Absolutely nothing illegal, ie Ch*ld Porn or Be*stiality.
* Submitted blog posts must be at least 100 words in length.
* WHOIS information must be public and truthful.
* Each blog post will be judged on its own merits, regardless of the stated rules.

I only commented out the URL because I'm constantly messing with the site and I don't everyone seeing my mySQL errors.

Sounds good to me although I did have some shit with people giving me hassle through looking up my address and details through whois so I only have my name displayed now. If your looking for full address then you might rule everyone out unless you accept PO Box numbers but then this could be anyone?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

Sounds good to me although I did have some shit with people giving me hassle through looking up my address and details through whois so I only have my name displayed now. If your looking for full address then you might rule everyone out unless you accept PO Box numbers but then this could be anyone?

This is a standard practice in the world of link lists and TGPs. I've been doing this since early '02 and the only unsolicited phone call I have ever received was from an SEO company and no strangers have ever stopped by my house. But then again, I don't sell my odoriferous undergarments online.

[walrus]

Pretty difficult to argue with them rules as they seem pretty lax to me.

You going to keep with the tried and true LL rule of one submit per day per webmaster for the blogs too?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by walrus

Pretty difficult to argue with them rules as they seem pretty lax to me.

You going to keep with the tried and true LL rule of one submit per day per webmaster for the blogs too?

No. I've never had that rule. The typical webmaster tends not to submit more than single link per day, so it's never been an issue. I have the odd submitter who submits a few things a day and, assuming they aren't all identical, it's just fine with me. I've become a much more relaxed reviewer over the last couple of years.

[johnnybg]

Maybe you should add
* Only original content
to prevent people copying ready-made posts from sponsor feeds and other bloggers

[tigermom]

Agreed. You need to make sure you don't get posts from RSS feeds. I would go with more words per post myself, to tell the quality out from the quantity.

Another point - not all blogs run the blogroll through out the site. Some only have it on the main page, but when you have a post per page, the blogroll doesn't show up there as well. From your point of view, I think you should require both a link back from the blogroll + a link from the page of the post. If the blogroll shows up there, then they're covered. If not they need to add a link. Or maybe you could go with an either/or approach? just thinking out loud, the main point being, don't assume that blogrolls always show up on every page of the blog.

I have quite a few blogs with long quality posts. I might have a few submits for you down the road, we'll see.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by tigermom

Another point - not all blogs run the blogroll through out the site. Some only have it on the main page, but when you have a post per page, the blogroll doesn't show up there as well.

Ugh. That hadn't occurred to me since I've only ever played with very basic blogs in which the blogroll was on every page. Right now, I'm using a standard reciprocal link check during submission. When the submitter clicks 'submit', the script scans the submitted URL for the correct link back. If it's not there, the submit page will respond with the "Reciprocal link not found" error. So I'll either have to demand that my link is present on the particular URL being submitted or I'll have to add another field on the submit page for the URL where my link is found - and that's not what I want to do. I like short and sweet submission forms with minimal required.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, tigermom. This damn site will never be ready for public submissions.

The primary reason that I was hoping to only request the single link back from bloggers was due to the [SE and traffic] value of that link as compared to a link from a free site or gallery. It's difficult to make too many demands upon submitters when your site is brand new with no real surfer traffic. All I have is a handful of SE bots zipping around trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing. It's still a work in progress, but here's the first public link to it from the board - PerveSpace

[walrus]

In case none of you fellow bloggers have noticed UW's Perve Space is now open for submits. Lets get our blog posts in there. I think it is a very interesting opportunity to get some inbound links to individual posts.