What can blogging do for me?

ronnie · 2006-03-04, 09:34 AM

What it gives you back depends on what you put in to it. You could make crappy free sites and not make money or you can make crappy blogs and not make money. I personally think blogs can be a better route, as you can develop an audience, where free sites are hit'em and leave for the most part. Though you probably wont get as much traffic. When submitting free sites, you can submit new ones all the time, each getting a supply of traffic, a blog you can only submit to traffic sources once, except for aggregators.

ronnie

walrus · 2006-03-04, 01:01 PM

To me, blogging is simply a lot more personal. With galleries and free-sites, you build it, submit it and forget it and move to the next one, the next design. With a blog, it's a continuing thing that your constantly adding to and if you do more than write sales text it becomes an extension of you, your personality.

Plus, like Ronnie says, its stickie. You don't get only that one chance to sell a surfer because if it's interesting, they'll be back over and over and over. Plus, if your using multiple sponsors, your not only selling them once because they come back even after a join.

I've got one blog that only averages about 500 visitors a day but 25% of them are from bookmarks and out of those few "hits" I convert a sale a day.

I also disagree with Twn, the object is to get them into your network and let them wander around your network until they find something that convinces them to buy. I think a freesite, hub, blog strategy is a sound one. Very little of the SE traffic I get is specificly looking for blogs (that traffic comes from other sources) but are looking for specific niche's. Therefore with a niche specific domain, I wouldn't see any reason that a strategy of combining them wouldn't work. Remember, when linking to your own freesites, there is no reason to take them to your warning page so the only places your surfer has to go from your freesites is back to your blog or to your sponsor or to your hub.

webseix · 2006-03-04, 03:19 PM

Blogs are good because the traffic is high quality, mostly from SEs and other blogs. Also, like others said, you can build a network and then get traffic going from blog to blog and of course getting SE traffic for each blog in your network.

On the other hand, free sites are also excellent. I mean, blogs have high quality traffic but in my experiences the traffic flow doesn't even come close to what is capable for free sites. If you get partner accounts and good free listings you can get high traffic volume. Yes, the traffic is lower quality... but there is just so much of it that it basically overrides the question of traffic quality.

Overall though, I am moving towards blogs more because right now I convert a lot better with blog traffic; free site traffic can be really bad at times. It also isn't as boring.

At the moment for me personally though... Free Site>Blog - although I am going to try to change that. (I just started with blogs in June and had free sites long before that.)

Maybe if I had as many blogs as free sites... my mind hurts now.

2006-03-04, 01:01 PM	#2
walrus Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert Join Date: May 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 1,773	To me, blogging is simply a lot more personal. With galleries and free-sites, you build it, submit it and forget it and move to the next one, the next design. With a blog, it's a continuing thing that your constantly adding to and if you do more than write sales text it becomes an extension of you, your personality. Plus, like Ronnie says, its stickie. You don't get only that one chance to sell a surfer because if it's interesting, they'll be back over and over and over. Plus, if your using multiple sponsors, your not only selling them once because they come back even after a join. I've got one blog that only averages about 500 visitors a day but 25% of them are from bookmarks and out of those few "hits" I convert a sale a day. I also disagree with Twn, the object is to get them into your network and let them wander around your network until they find something that convinces them to buy. I think a freesite, hub, blog strategy is a sound one. Very little of the SE traffic I get is specificly looking for blogs (that traffic comes from other sources) but are looking for specific niche's. Therefore with a niche specific domain, I wouldn't see any reason that a strategy of combining them wouldn't work. Remember, when linking to your own freesites, there is no reason to take them to your warning page so the only places your surfer has to go from your freesites is back to your blog or to your sponsor or to your hub. __________________ Naked Girlfriend Porn TGP free partner account

2006-03-04, 09:34 AM	#1
ronnie Wheither you think you can or you think you can't, Your right. Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: midwest Posts: 2,274	What it gives you back depends on what you put in to it. You could make crappy free sites and not make money or you can make crappy blogs and not make money. I personally think blogs can be a better route, as you can develop an audience, where free sites are hit'em and leave for the most part. Though you probably wont get as much traffic. When submitting free sites, you can submit new ones all the time, each getting a supply of traffic, a blog you can only submit to traffic sources once, except for aggregators. ronnie

2006-03-04, 03:19 PM	#3
webseix Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Posts: 11	Blogs are good because the traffic is high quality, mostly from SEs and other blogs. Also, like others said, you can build a network and then get traffic going from blog to blog and of course getting SE traffic for each blog in your network. On the other hand, free sites are also excellent. I mean, blogs have high quality traffic but in my experiences the traffic flow doesn't even come close to what is capable for free sites. If you get partner accounts and good free listings you can get high traffic volume. Yes, the traffic is lower quality... but there is just so much of it that it basically overrides the question of traffic quality. Overall though, I am moving towards blogs more because right now I convert a lot better with blog traffic; free site traffic can be really bad at times. It also isn't as boring. At the moment for me personally though... Free Site>Blog - although I am going to try to change that. (I just started with blogs in June and had free sites long before that.) Maybe if I had as many blogs as free sites... my mind hurts now.