Attention all Link List owners

[Ann Omness]

I've reviewed thousands of blogs over the past couple of years for another website and I've probably seen everything. The most common mistake I've seen with adult blogs is the absence of writing. People think that blogs are magical search engine magnets or something. If there is not frequently updated text for the search engines to spider, the blog is worthless. I see a lot of sites done with blogging software that are nothing but sample pics linked to sponsors. Even if they update every day, there's still nothing for the search engines to index. Those blogs never gain any pagerank.

My rule of thumb is: if you don't write in your blog, it isn't a blog. It doesn't matter what you write about as long as you're writing and feeding the spiders. The blog services that offer free hosting dedicated to blogs have been very stable, so I don't have a problem with blogs hosted at blogspot or blog-city or what not. As far as the quality of the writing, why should I care? It doesn't cost me anything to accept the link. It's good for THEM if they write interesting stuff, because they'll develop a regular readership. Sticky is always good. But the only thing that matters to me as a list owner is having my recip on a page that gets search engine traffic. The search engines don't care if the writing is good, only that there's something there to feed the spiders.