Define a quality post

[ronnie]

Guess it depends what a blog owner expects or wants out of their blog(s). If it's just personal or a hobby, write as they want. As to what will be a good sponsor provided post.

If some one is looking to only make money, most of us, the only real way to to know what works and what does'nt, is testing. Until then we can only guess.

As far as building traffic to a blog, I can say without a doubt, blogs with a personality, as already mentioned a few times. My best traffic blog, the one with the most traffic is the one with a personality. Even though it could be much better, it has attracted the most readers. Some proof is the fact that readers e-mail, buying into the charactor. It surprized me. Remember the porn biz is and always will be fantasy.

Of course, no sponsor provided blog post will do that, at least not a unique charactor. A unique charactor is always going to win.

To me it all comes down to time. So many webmasters have many sites, blogs, ect, too many pans in the fire. Or is that Irons? It's hard to find the time to write good posts.

Not to mention, sponsor provided blog posts would end up being used by many, many webmasters, duplication and saturation. Saturation as in the surfer already saw it before.

I don't agree about sponsors providing everything that the webmasters don't have to do anything. Sponsors still dont give out traffic, least last I heard.

Course I am more than guilty of bad blogging, so what do I know..

Guess to me, from experience, a unique charactor draws the crowd. Just my opinion.

Did I get off topic?

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by walrus

I'd like to hear what others think would make up a quality post. We all feel that sponsors feeds suck for the most part but I would counter that most bloggers suck.

As a group, if we can't define what it is we're looking for then sponsors that do want to provide quality feeds are left with a moving target to try and shoot at because I can tell you, what I am really looking for in a blog or a feed is going to be different than the next guy.

The way I see it there are three basic types of adult blogs
1, Babelog, a post consists of a photo, a title, text is usually a sentence or the title repeated. This has to be the least effective blog but better than nothing.
2, Splog, most posts are sponsor supplied feeds, a post consists of a photo, a title and a paragraph of text.
3, Blog, most posts are original text and the blog encourages reader participation.

The beauty of a blog is it can be anything you want so any combination babelog, splog, blog is cool and totally up to the webmasters skill and time constraints.

I’m sure I would melt the spell check right out of my computer and still end up with a shitty blog if I wrote every post. I just don’t have the skill or imagination to write like Simon, Walrus, Grandmascrotum, SueFi or Tigermom so I want (need) all the Good Sponsor Feeds I can get. (yes Walrus I suck)

I thought the purpose of this thread was to define what a quality Sponsor Hosted Feed is not what a quality post is.
I still think:
1, catchy title
2, relevant paragraph of 250 words or more with some good sales text
3, one photo
is a Quality Sponsor Feed.

[bDok]

For a quality feed I would be happy with a picture, a catchy title or a keyword targeted title, and a decent amount of text. Maybe a paragraph of quality text with a link or two in it. That's me though. With feeds i'm just using them to setup TONS and TONS of splogs. If you want a real _BLOG_ then that's you doing the work cause you want new text that isn't going to be anywhere else unless someone else rips your feed.

Cheers,
B

[Chimera]

I would assume that perhaps the question would be, "What do the majority of webmasters want in a sponsor feed".
Presumably sponsors who chose to offer hosted blogs would most interested in those opinions.
No one person can claim to be a majority, but there does seem to be a trend, and it was stated that personality blogs are in the minority.