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Originally Posted by jayeff
There are some serious pitfalls in trying to generalize about blogs.
I run a string of health-related sites and for them it is vital to provide something which is both readable and informative. Those blogs also seem to be very interactive, since people love to talk about what ails them. But I think it was the people at blogger.com who estimated that overall around 96% of blog comments - if you include the acceptable comments which say something relevant but then mention "btw I have posted on a similar topic over at..." - are spam.
Porn however, for the majority is primarily visual, so while it is good to add text for the benefit of the search engines, you would need a very individual "take" on the topic or style, for too much text not to get in the way. Fetish and swinger sites can be exceptions. Solo sites or photographer's sites too. But I don't think the majority of porn blog webmasters would be best served by going too far in that direction.
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First, I don't think I'm addressing the majority of porn blog webmasters. I'm addressing those who are already doing something a little different or those that may want to do something a little different. I'm encouraging people to look at doing something different.
What most people pass as good advice to porn bloggers is nothing more than repackaged good advice to free-site builders or gallery builders. If that was my main goal, I'd be much better off building free-sites since link lists are much bigger traffic pumps than any blog directory.
On the other hand, I think almost everyone would agree that the way people are using the web is going through a change. Blogging, as described in the article I posted seems to be working very well in mainstream and I think it would be personally shortsighted to not study it and find ways to adopt it's principles in an adult environment.
Am I encouraging people to experiment....yes. Am I experimenting....yes. Does the experiment have a basis for success....I believe so. But notice, nowhere do I advise anyone to abandon what you would consider traditional porn blogging.