Is it just me, or do most sponsor feeds totally suck?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by T Pat

I'm making more sales off of Sponsor hosted feeds than sponsor hosted galleries.
Sponsor hosted feeds are in their infancy and the quality will eventually improve, look at the evolution of hosted free sites
For now don't even bother looking for a decent BBW feed.

Have you seen this one? http://www.xlgirls.com/rss/

[Useless]

I think we should not only continue to have low expectations of hosted content for bloggers, but in fact, should expect even less in the future. And though that's not a good thing for sploggers, it's really not bad for established bloggers or those new to blogging, whom have a better than average understanding of proper linking and SE content creation.

Blogging isn't gathering the same attention and excitement it was a year ago, and even then, some of those who were part of the blogging revolution were warning about the bubble bursting. I wouldn't say that the bubble bursted. It was more of a slow deflation. This state of equilibrium should be good for real bloggers, even if it does mean that fewer sponsors may be willing to make a foray into quality hosted feed/blog content creation.

[Bill]

Has anyone tried this thing?

http://www.adultblogresource.com/gallery2blog/

It claims to be able to do what I described, build a rss feed from a csv list of galleries...

I guess they ask you to put a link on a page reachable by search spiders.

I signed up to try it.

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Bill

Has anyone tried this thing?

http://www.adultblogresource.com/gallery2blog/

It claims to be able to do what I described, build a rss feed from a csv list of galleries...

I guess they ask you to put a link on a page reachable by search spiders.

I signed up to try it.

Hey Bill I'm curious about that script, how do you like it so far?

[Bill]

Well, it definitely works, and has some nice qualities, including going to the kist of gallery urls and making or grabbing nice thumbs for the rss feed. But it seems to have some problems too.

For instance, as an online tool it hosts and controls the final rss feed - I would rather have been able to download the full finished rss feed and host it myself. Allowing some other website to hold and control my feed makes me nervous

I gather it's a tool meant to be used on thumbblogger. It is supposed to allow you to download and host the thumbs for the feed yourself if your blog isn't on thumblogger, but it seems to have a few bugs.

Here's the blog I'm using for testing - http://www.2anal.net/

Notice what is now the second post down -Anal Starlet Sluts
- that's from the feed I created with that tool yesterday. The image is broken, because their feed is, for some unknown reason, now trying to deliver the thumb from the thumbblogger server, when I set the feed to display the thumb from my server, and uploaded the thumbs for it last night.

My first reaction to it was more positive than not, untill I saw the broken image.

BTW, if anybody wants to link up with that http://www.2anal.net/ splog, my preferred text is "The Anal Net", and I'll link with any other blog or splog, altho of course anal and butt pages are especially welcome.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

Well, it definitely works, and has some nice qualities, including going to the kist of gallery urls and making or grabbing nice thumbs for the rss feed. But it seems to have some problems too.

For instance, as an online tool it hosts and controls the final rss feed - I would rather have been able to download the full finished rss feed and host it myself. Allowing some other website to hold and control my feed makes me nervous

I gather it's a tool meant to be used on thumbblogger. It is supposed to allow you to download and host the thumbs for the feed yourself if your blog isn't on thumblogger, but it seems to have a few bugs.

Here's the blog I'm using for testing - http://www.2anal.net/

Notice what is now the second post down -Anal Starlet Sluts
- that's from the feed I created with that tool yesterday. The image is broken, because their feed is, for some unknown reason, now trying to deliver the thumb from the thumbblogger server, when I set the feed to display the thumb from my server, and uploaded the thumbs for it last night.

My first reaction to it was more positive than not, untill I saw the broken image.

BTW, if anybody wants to link up with that http://www.2anal.net/ splog, my preferred text is "The Anal Net", and I'll link with any other blog or splog, altho of course anal and butt pages are especially welcome.

Bill,

Linked you up on:

Blog Maniac - Anal Sex http://www.xxxblogindex.com/xxxblogm...gory/anal-sex/

I Like Big Butts http://butts.pornblogbytes.com/

First Time Sluts http://www.pornblogsurfer.com/first-time-sluts/

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I think we should not only continue to have low expectations of hosted content for bloggers, but in fact, should expect even less in the future. And though that's not a good thing for sploggers, it's really not bad for established bloggers or those new to blogging, whom have a better than average understanding of proper linking and SE content creation.

Blogging isn't gathering the same attention and excitement it was a year ago, and even then, some of those who were part of the blogging revolution were warning about the bubble bursting. I wouldn't say that the bubble bursted. It was more of a slow deflation. This state of equilibrium should be good for real bloggers, even if it does mean that fewer sponsors may be willing to make a foray into quality hosted feed/blog content creation.

Hey Useless I used to think of you as “The Father Of Sponsor Hosted Feeds”

Now I'm thinking your more like “A Varmint That Eats It’s Young”