Random Blog Stuff

[Element115]

In my opinion, most adult bloggers focus way too hard on trying to please the search engines. While it's true that the ability to generate SE traffic is one of the strengths of blogging, I disagree that this is a blog's greatest strength. The greatest asset a blog has is the ability to generate buzz and in my experience this is the difference between a mediocre blog and a successful blog.

Instead of asking the question "would somebody actually read this blog?" ask this question instead. If I were a surfer and I came across this blog would I find it interesting enough to show it to someone else? That applies to any style of blog whether it be adult, political or whatever.

I haven't been doing this very long but I can easily look at all of the blogs I've done so far and tell you that there is a clear cut difference between the ones that are successful and the ones that aren't. The ones that do well get lots of comments, they get posted to forums, people post them on their own blogs etc. Not only do you get free backlinks out of the deal but you will basically have people out there selling your blog for you. Generally speaking, I'd say this traffic blows SE traffic away because a lot of times guys are showing your blog to the people that are most interested.

This is the approach that I take to all of my new blogs now and I've had to rethink how I approach some of my older blogs but I can already see the difference it's making. Not just in terms of traffic but my conversions have started to go up as well.

I also want to add that if you aren't enjoying yourself while you're writing a post, than chances are it's not that interesting of a read either. I say DON'T censor yourself. In fact, just the opposite. Be a smart ass, go with the fuck you attitude if that's what works for you. What's the worst that could happen? You piss off Bill O'Reilly and you end up on Fox News.....GOOD! That's Buzzzzzzzz.....

[Star Man]

Sorry I took so long to get back to responding.Good stuff Element115 ,you gave me some things to think about.

(BTW I thought I was the only one here fucked up enough to know what Element115 is lol)

[kmanrox]

blogging is really quite beautiful...

research niches/domain names for those niches

buy a dom with some keywords in it

do basic SEO for your theme, cats, etc etc

make unique blost posts with lots of text.

fill in the gaps/add content with some morphing RSS feeds

keep it updated

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traffic will just keep building and building generally.. it's like a magic pill.. rly

[Star Man]

Originally Posted by kmanrox

blogging is really quite beautiful...

Great,now I have that 'You are so beutiful' song stuck in my head.MAKE IT STOP!

For some reason I love how you can just choose a different WP template and make your whole blog look completely different including previous posts at any time.

[RedCherry]

One thing I will comment is if you choose to put it in the root domain, then , oh submit galleries to the hun on that domain and use the seo re-write mod in wordpress, you can cause some slow-down issues on your server, because your .htaccess for the rewrite being in your root domain, every hit is filtering through that. I had this happen to me, and had to move my blog. It only caused issues though when I had that much traffic.

After I moved one of my blogs off the root, I noticed no traffic, then I noticed yesterday the traffic is picking up, but no referrers. It looks to me like people actually are bookmarking it, which makes me feel good.

Now, my blogs I have left on root domains, I won't submit those to TGPs. FYI