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2008-08-09, 01:32 AM | #1 |
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Lets Light This Place Up
The blogging forum has gotten a little slow lately and I'd like to light a candle under it.
If you all have a topic you've been avoiding, or want to know anything, or want to know why I hate all the bullshit SEO plugins, or anything else, lets talk about it. Personally I'm finding the techniques I used a year ago are ineffective as far as generating traffic and I want to know, does a true porn blogger have a chance today or has the saturation of pure crap made it near impossible for someone wanting to do something above the fold. |
2008-08-09, 03:29 AM | #2 |
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I would like to know why you dont use seo plugins. And what do you do to optimize your blogs?
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2008-08-09, 09:29 AM | #3 | |
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I love reading 'blog for sale' topics on the zoo's spam forum. Almost any blog being sold is a month-old install of WP which has been fed hosted gallery feeds so all of it's posts are a large thumb and a one line nonsense, generic description. The seller "doesn't have time to maintain it." Maintain what? You've put no effort at all into it and now you want $300!
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2008-08-09, 09:31 AM | #4 |
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As a producer of pure crap I've got to say I'm in a boarder line panic
I've been slowly sliding into a black pit since mid June, it's looking like my page views will be down a million plus this month. My ratios are going to hell too, I made a lousy fifty cents yesterday I've been pluging traffic leaks, redid my internal linking and doing SEO on my splogs since getting back from Vegas and don't see a lick of improvement
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2008-08-09, 09:36 AM | #5 |
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That doesn't mean that we don't love you, Pat.
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Of course I'm comparing my real blog and my at least hand written blog when saying that and I haven't taken care of them the way I know I should. I'm going to start showing them more love so I'll revisit that statement in another month Quote:
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I'm going back to prioritizing some of the newer, potentially more productive projects first and working on finishing the splogs as time permits and not the other way around. It's hard because the bulk of my adult income comes from them but I just have sinking feeling that I'm investing time in a losing proposition. Kick kaktusan in the ass and get him to finish tagging for BO. I think that will give your splogs a much needed push. |
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2008-08-09, 01:13 PM | #7 |
A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
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2008-08-09, 01:47 PM | #8 |
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What always seems to escape me is how delayed are the traffic impacts when I make a strategic change to my blog? My traffic and conversion has been shit since spring. I've made some changes and traffic is up a bit (with conversions still poor). So is the traffic increase due to my changes? If so, which ones and why didn't conversions change at all? Man, I don't get this traffic thing.
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2008-08-09, 03:14 PM | #9 |
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Three of my blogs are doing very well - and 4 of my splogs are up in traffic - others are way down.
As I look at them, it looks like the less "spamy" the blog/splog, the better it's doing. I can't really tie traffic to any one thing such as trades, submissions, seo tuning, template design etc... Just seems the blogs with less banner adds are doing better. And I still get sales from my blogs! I'd guess 25-30% of my overall sales are from my blogs. That reflects about the same % of effort that I put into them. |
2008-08-09, 04:42 PM | #10 | |
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If I'm in a valley and I make changes, I usually give it three months to evaluate my results and then watch for a few more to see if the trend continues. |
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2008-08-12, 07:34 PM | #11 |
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I've been hinting at this for some time. It's not a I told you thing. And maybe I'm way of base.
There is a ton of crap out there, no question, the problem is, in my opinion, is all the directories and traffic sources supporting this crap. I posted on my blog a while back that "free hosted" has made a turn around and came back to bite. It's funny how just every LL or directory will not accept or list free hosted free sites, but they are happy to list and trade with free hosted blogs. Would all the free hosted crap be where it is in the ranks, if it wasn't supported? Nope. I've also been on my soapbox too many times talking about unique content, probably too many times for most people. From what I've seen over the years, the higher traffic sites/blogs are the ones that post a ton of unique/interesting content. No big secret. Course on the other hand I know what it's like to try and create unique content for many blogs on a on-going basis, it can wear you down quick. So I don't blame any one for wanting to automate. Not one bit. A big part of the reason I sold pretty much all my adult properties, it's a ton of work. More than I wanted to keep doing. Many people also talk or argue about duplicate content. While there may not be a penalty, I think we have to agree, the Search engines are not going to list the same content too many times. Right? They would not be providing good results if every result was the same. So many people are going to lose out. In my opinion, if some one wanted to try a experiment that has a good chance of being successful, it would be to concentrate on one blog. Posting interesting and totally unique content and a lot of it. I think every one would agree that automation with RSS feeds, for example, was taking a chance, it should be no surprise if it stopped working. Like I said, I don't blame any one for wanting to automate, I've been slinging porn for almost 10 years, so I know exactly what it's like to get tired of working so much. Been there done that. Still, I believe, one blog done well could do much better than a number of automated ones. Plus it's providing unique content, which we know is what the se's want, so there really is no risk of a "tactic" not working any more. Least in my opinion. Then again, what do I know, I all but quit.. |
2008-08-12, 07:42 PM | #12 | |
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Not giving you a hard time, just thinking maybe it's something you've changed, stopped doing or are doing differently? |
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2008-08-12, 08:37 PM | #13 | |
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The blog, well it's me. Hanging myself out there for the world to see. Oh and posting a few babes along the way cause well, I like naked babes. Is that a new link list I see in your sig? |
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2008-08-12, 09:06 PM | #14 | |
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2008-08-13, 01:10 AM | #15 |
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Perhaps but remember they all live in one bathroom
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2008-08-13, 04:25 AM | #16 |
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TPat and I are moving into the same bathroom together - at least it's a start - and I have someone to hold my dick when I pee.....
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2008-08-13, 07:41 AM | #17 |
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2008-08-13, 10:14 AM | #18 | ||
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Tell that to the people of Georgia. (I love current event jokes, even when they aren't funny.)
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Also, blogs shouldn't compare their traffic to only that of other blogs, because that's not how Google is doing it. Traffic should be compared to the entire porn landscape, per search phrase. I have no idea how many surfers actually search for adult blogs. I assume most of them find blogs by luck of the draw while searching for tits and ass, which is the same way link lists get much of their traffic. (why would anyone WANT to find a link list?) I built a niche blog exactly 23 days ago. All hand written posts with one thumb linked to a gallery which the post discussed/described. A couple of posts were based on text found on the gallery themselves, but heavily edited to not appear the same. I linked to the blog from a couple of my sites and Alexa, Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp showed up that same day. I've done no pinging. The next day I had 8 uniques and within 6 days I had 58 uniques. For the last two weeks, without any further promotion or updates to the blog itself, it has received an average of 140 uniques per day with about 2.5 pageviews per visitor. About 80% is from Mother Google and is based on 2-6 word search phrases. Now, 140 uniques per day isn't exactly exciting, but it's enough to make me think that it's probably worthwhile to build more niche-specific blogs and watch their growth. The problem is - and this going to be a big surprise to you - blogs are a lot of fucking work.
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2008-08-13, 10:42 AM | #19 | |
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Quite simple I think. I took my eye off the blog and I started working on other adult projects. My entries began to get sploggy and people disappeared. I agree with what UW said. Blogs are a lot of work. I intend on refocusing on the site and I hope to see the site visits climb. We'll see.
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2008-08-13, 12:04 PM | #20 |
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You probably suffer from the same type of blogging personality that I have. I get an idea, I get excited, I blow my creative load on it for a short period, and then find it difficult to get those same juices flowing when it's time to maintain it properly. I work in spurts in sputters.
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2008-08-13, 12:40 PM | #21 | |
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I am a bit like that. I want to do what catches my eye and not necessarily what makes money. Thank God my wife is better at doing the latter or we'd be fucked!
I also thought, if I can make $x with a blog then I can make $x times 5 with another blog, a link list, a directory and some mobile porn. What I found was that you can only work on so many things well. Turns out important things get neglected. What makes me feel stupid is I consciously decided to "put all my eggs in one basket" and then went and did the opposite. Now I need to see if I can fix it. Quote:
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2008-08-13, 03:00 PM | #22 | ||
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Your choice was become a nerd or go with a free host. Once the free hosts started kicking porn off, it opened up a whole new area for someone like twan to take advantage of and he did. I guess my point is porn blogging roots are in free hosts. Quote:
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2008-08-15, 04:39 PM | #23 | ||||
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I don't trade with splogs, but I have built a few. They can come in handy for filtering your traffic into related niches and subniches. Say you have an asian blog that you put a lot of time into and gets decent traffic, you could create a bunch of splogs like asian babes, asian anal, asian bjs, asian teens, etc. The splogs aren't really meant to pull SE traffic (although they sometimes do), you're just providing every possible type of content the visitor is likely to enjoy. You may not get a whole lot of traffic to the splogs, but it will be high-quality traffic that is likely to buy if he sees just the right thing that does it for him. I don't have the time to build a real blog for each and every one of those subniches, but having a splog is better than leaving a gap. |
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2008-08-15, 05:14 PM | #24 | |
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Now, I just follow the traffic trends rather than trying to control them. If I'm getting a big traffic increase in a certain blog, I'll put in more time and update it more often. If I see traffic take a big dive, I no longer try to "revive" it. For me, this has just wasted my time. I'll still leave the blog online and update it maybe once a week or every two weeks. But I'm putting the bulk of my time into the ones that are getting traffic now. And you know sure enough, some of those neglected blogs will fall back into favor and start racking up the SE hits again. Can't explain it, like I said I just ride it instead of trying to control it. The way I see it, if 10% of the blogs I make become money then I'll have more winners if I keep building. But like many of us have said in this thread - it's a lot of work. Having one mega blog sounds so nice, but I'm too wimpy to try a general adult blog yet. |
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2008-08-15, 06:43 PM | #25 | |
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Now some, like me, will say that a blog built for traffic will not sell as well as one built for sales and one built for sales doesn't get as much traffic. The truth of the matter is that there are a number of effective ways to sell. Instead of building a splog, build a freesite, or just an effective sales page and link to that from your blog posts. So if you have 10 categories, you only need to build 10 effective sales pages, SEO the hell out of them and I'd bet you'd be much better off than with the splogs. Same concept as above, just a lot more work. General blog, Categories for niche's, sub-categories for micro-niches. |
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