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.

[ronnie]

Ya, I agree, seems most adult blogs lately are really glorified tgp's, from what I've seen. Just links to galleries and pics. I'd rather see the writing. least descent writing.

I hear of people getting so many hits to their blogs, well if you give away a bunch of free porn, you will get traffic, but what kind of traffic is it?

But writing something of interest instead could get the bots and better quality traffic.

ronnie

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Ann Omness

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.

But don't link lists build their reputation by linking to quality sites? Isn't that why they have rules? I'm pretty sure that most link lists owner would argue that they look far beyond whether or not there is a link back.

I think it would be better to for link listers to create their own blogs on their lists, then do some cross-linking from it to other blogs, rather than including blogs in their main listings. But then that creates even more work on one's daily schedule.

I installed a blog script on my WhoringWives TGP a while back, but haven't touched it in some time. I'm not sure I even have it linked from the main site anymore. http://www.whoringwives.com/wives_tales/
But that's what I intend on doing with the main page of Filthy Earl. I'll run the (almost) daily updated blog in my left column while leaving the category links and descriptions in the right. I'm just wondering if it would be better to put it on it's own page.