Is there money in blogs?

[Jim]

I am just curious about this. Do you guys blog for the money or do you do it because it's in your blood?

I mean, without a doubt, blogging is a lot of work. And, if you are not making a lot of cash from it, why are you doing it? Unless, it's just in your blood.

[Cleo]

I'm guessing that anyone who actually is bored enough to read my incredibly boring blog would buy anything to try to improve what must be a incredibly mundane life.

[twn]

I blog efficient I use the gallery2blog tool to import a FHG list from a sponsor, then i add a couple good written and unique sentences to each gallery, the result is a big list of blog post in a specific niche. I schedule this big list so that 2 or 3 blog posts appear every week on my blog(s). This way i have a automated blog, but with unique attractive text.

[Jim]

So twn, would your blog be considered a fake blog?

And Cleo, based on the amount of people that do read your blog, how are the sales compared to your LL?

[Lemmy]

I started blogging for money (and because starting new projects and playing with scripts is fun). I make occasional sales, but for the time invested the returns just aren't worth it, at least not for me. I think I have 9 blogs right now (all fake/semi-fake) and I only update a couple of them very sporadically.

I'm sure somebody who specializes in blogging and knows how to do it right can make decent money.

[docholly]

As an active blogger.. i can say for me out of 6 blogs that i juggle..only 2 make money for me, my REAL blog which is on a community site --Live journal-- and my cam blog. The rest are time consuming and really make little to nothing. Which proves to me that writing what you know and are passionate about pays more than trying to 'fake" it. But that's just what i've found after 6 years.

[Preacher]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

I started blogging for money (and because starting new projects and playing with scripts is fun). I make occasional sales, but for the time invested the returns just aren't worth it, at least not for me...

Ditto.

I really don't post sales articles anymore, and I don't use pictures for the most part either not enough reward for the effort. The only beneficial thing about my blog is as traffic feeder to my other adult properties, other than that I just try to have fun with it.

[twn]

Originally Posted by Jim

So twn, would your blog be considered a fake blog?

No, mainly because i type unique content, it isn't much, but it isn't too little, it is actually just right. When you are doing it for a while you will learn what amount of text is right and what type of sentences are doing right with the search engines. It's just like with freesites, you have to figure out how to get one without spending too much time on it.

There are actually many type of blogs, it isn't fake and good, there is a lot between those two But i always recommend to sit in the middle, you get the best of both worlds this way.

[T Pat]

Given a choice of starting a new link list or a blog focused on a niche your passionate about, I think the blog would show a profit first.

[walrus]

Blogs are a labor of love. But I would say that it takes 9-12 months to build a blog that can financially stand on its own.

Splogs, fake blogs, etc. are in a very different category than above and you can build a network of them and do ok.

But to answer your question, I would say that if you were looking to support yourself, blogging would be a bad place to start.

[GonZo]

Ive made money with blogging but there are different rules and variables to apply.

[Ms Naughty]

I actually don't know if my blogs make money or not, I must admit, I haven't been tracking that. The main purpose reason I started them was to create search-engine friendly text and also to have something that was a little bit sticky and linkable, bringing traffic onto the linklists where I could then make sales.

I actually get a lot of good traffic into my sites from places that would not normally link to a porn site.

It also means you can create content that gets into the blogosphere.

[2msacras]

I got into it for the writing aspect of blogs, I have a degree in journalism I never used and this was the perfect combo of what I was doing in adult. However, a lot of my blogs that were real blogs didn't make a lot of money. It seems my network of fake blogs makes more but I still keep some of my real blogs updated by hand because I just have an urge to write sometimes that can't be satisfied by fake blogs.

[Jim]

It seems that nobody really started blogging to get rich. And to do a real blog, it either has to be a labor of love or you just don't do it.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Preacher

I really don't post sales articles anymore, and I don't use pictures for the most part either not enough reward for the effort. The only beneficial thing about my blog is as traffic feeder to my other adult properties, other than that I just try to have fun with it.

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

The main purpose reason I started them was to create search-engine friendly text and also to have something that was a little bit sticky and linkable, bringing traffic onto the linklists where I could then make sales.

Those two snippets pretty much sum it up for me too. As an example, on the XLog there's rarely any real sales text, and almost never any porn pics or movies linked to sponsors. For me it's about making a site stickier by giving surfers something besides just/only porn to entertain them. Using a blog as one part of a site means that when surfers do want more porn, it's only a click or two away on the same site.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

I actually don't know if my blogs make money or not, I must admit, I haven't been tracking that. The main purpose reason I started them was to create search-engine friendly text and also to have something that was a little bit sticky and linkable, bringing traffic onto the linklists where I could then make sales.

I actually get a lot of good traffic into my sites from places that would not normally link to a porn site.

It also means you can create content that gets into the blogosphere.

Originally Posted by Preacher

Ditto.

I really don't post sales articles anymore, and I don't use pictures for the most part either not enough reward for the effort. The only beneficial thing about my blog is as traffic feeder to my other adult properties, other than that I just try to have fun with it.

Originally Posted by Simon

Those two snippets pretty much sum it up for me too. As an example, on the XLog there's rarely any real sales text, and almost never any porn pics or movies linked to sponsors. For me it's about making a site stickier by giving surfers something besides just/only porn to entertain them. Using a blog as one part of a site means that when surfers do want more porn, it's only a click or two away on the same site.

These three posts pretty much sum thing sup for me.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Jim

It seems that nobody really started blogging to get rich. And to do a real blog, it either has to be a labor of love or you just don't do it.

I would say thats a very accurate analysis.

[JTandmisstee]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

I actually don't know if my blogs make money or not, I must admit, I haven't been tracking that. The main purpose reason I started them was to create search-engine friendly text and also to have something that was a little bit sticky and linkable, bringing traffic onto the linklists where I could then make sales.

I actually get a lot of good traffic into my sites from places that would not normally link to a porn site.

It also means you can create content that gets into the blogosphere.

That is how I was going to start out our blogs to bring traffic into the site and then send them off to our sponsors. I started looking at several blogs that were sucessfull and were making money and followed their lead. Turn out that I started posting pictures and doing a few comments about them or using text the sponsor used about the pics or a story maybe, I'm not the writer in the family the wife is much better than I am... she a published writer.
After search engines starting picking up the blog along with a small amount of pinning the blogs started getting a good quality of traffic.
What I mean by quality traffic is sales! see below response to Jim
I now have plans on bring two other domains in the blogging world one is being test now which is holding it's own and the other is getting off the planning board and about ready to start and linking each one to the other. If I could be the wife to do stories and etc... which is she really good at I believe all three domains will take off, at least that's what I hope for

Originally Posted by Jim

It seems that nobody really started blogging to get rich. And to do a real blog, it either has to be a labor of love or you just don't do it.

No I really didn't start out blogging to get rich...and to be honest haven't yet. Our main blog though along with another blog that's on a free hosting blog site both have sign ups each and every month...rebills too from two main sponsors another sponsor is converting as per sign up and thinking along the lines of going recurring on that one as well.
As far as the real blog...no non of them are a true real blog although some of my visitor seem to think so. I am one that's doing the posting for the most part the wife the proof reader since my writting skill stinks.
We have been married for so long that I know how my wife talks and thinks that I use a alias and post as a female using how my wife would talk or pharse things. I had a couple visitors email and ask if I go out with them...LOL....one even included a pic...LOL. Had one visitor that though I was the female of my best sponsor and wanted to date me etc....
On the real thing I did have one of the services that we ping post one of my postings as a real couples post.
It's a labor of love thing I guess reading and studing other blogs has really helped as wordpress says have fun with it and that's what I do have fun... along with talking with four other adult bloggers that have sucessfull blogs has really help too and expand on their ideas...to be honest I made more off the blog(s) than I ever did with free sites tgp's avs and LL's. Been a off and on again webmaster for the past ten years (remember greenie on another board when I started out) and going full time now.

[Sarah_Jayne]

I do it for the money but I guess I have always been the type that is okay with writing. In many ways blogs are what free sites used to be..a way to target SE hits with a bit of content.

[ronnie]

I've found blogs to be more time consuming than anything else I do, that is for blogs that are updated on a regular basis like every two days or so. It's more time consuming because there is more to it, least for me.

With a links lists, for example, you check links, good not not, follow the rules, blind links, ect it's pretty much a regular easy procedure. With blogs you have to think what your going to post about, what to post, write the post, links, images, ect. It's more thinking I guess for me. many times it's tough to come up with what to write about.

I am the same as grandmascrotum, as I dont track my blogs for sales, which is dumb on my part, and should find the time. Though I do know the traffic clicks through to my sponsors pretty well.

[Irvin]

i think that it is possible to get money from any way of directions in Adult. It is possible to do job very good.

[Ms Naughty]

Blogging is definitely time consuming. I probably spend about an hour a day on my blogs - researching, writing, maintaining. I guess I could be making a free site in that time.

It is worth it because it suits a strategy. Through blogging I've set myself up as an expert by reporting on news about women and porn, with an occasional plug for products added. Today that's paid off because I got a nice plug for several of my sites on Fleshbot and Scanner. Nice traffic, nice hardlinks.

With the current concern over the devaluing of reciprocal links, a blog is a great way to get those much-needed one way links. But the trick is that you have to earn them, and that does take time. An advertising-rich splog won't get them, unless it's somehow really amusing.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

With the current concern over the devaluing of reciprocal links, a blog is a great way to get those much-needed one way links. But the trick is that you have to earn them, and that does take time. An advertising-rich splog won't get them, unless it's somehow really amusing.

We could try doing a trackbacking club kind of thing, to increase the links coming to each other.

Boogie suggested that a while back. I had no idea of how one even did a trackback then, ha ha.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Bill

We could try doing a trackbacking club kind of thing, to increase the links coming to each other.

Boogie suggested that a while back. I had no idea of how one even did a trackback then, ha ha.

How would that work Bill?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Jim

How would that work Bill?

Well, the theory is pretty straightforward. We write posts that include permalinks to individual post pages on each others blogs.

Blogs with two many links to the index, and too few to interior pages, fit a pattern that will get them knockedback as spam (which is because they are spam ;-} ).

How to organize it is the problem - I think Boogie never felt there was the right group of bloggers around to make it work. But there are a few more bloggers now. Maybe we could figure it out.

The "trackbacking club" concept is that basically we 'buy in' by saying we'll make, say, three trackbacks to each others blogs in a month. So if there are 5 people, in a month we have to include trackbacks to other blogs about 15 times a month (that sounds too much, maybe make it two or one a month).

But, the whole subject deserves it's own thread. Maybe we can start one sometime soon.