Is there money in blogs?

[Halfdeck]

If your point is

My point is trackbacks are not gonna help you unless you do it en masse - and if you do do it en masse those links will be devalued. A bigger point is that at the end of the day, bending over backwards to please Google isn't going to win a blogger any brownie points. Build a blog for surfers - Google traffic is just cream on top. Lastly, if you want to build traffic off thousands of long tails publishing stuff no one is ever gonna bother reading, why not just buy a spam script? Even spending 30 minutes on chasing a low traffic long tail just for the sake of traffic to me is way too much work.

The real strength of a blog is what Karen said - getting organic links from sites like Fleshbot - sex blogs is probably the only "sector" in adult that's freely linking - and those are the type of links that will boost your rankings.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

why not just buy a spam script? ...getting organic links from sites like Fleshbot ....

Splogging is more ethically acceptable to me than a spam script. I have the rights to the content I'm using and making, I'm just using wordpress and and a few plugins to create long tail content without scraping and without creating near duplicate pages on the blog domain (unlike a spam script).

Since a splog has about the same chance of getting a link from fleshbot as I have of screwing a celebrity, it doesn't make any sense to talk about splogs trying to get links like that.

You've already said google can't tell the difference between no trustrank minor pages and notrustrank spam - splogs take advantage of that in the longtail.

I haven't been splogging for long but I'm fully in the black, and earnings can be expected to increase. I've gotten surfer comments on splogs, much to my surprise. I make the most signups on my anchor blogs, but the splogs are sending a nice stream of hits to the sponsors, and while it;s sometimes hard to tell where FHG sales came from, there are at least a couple I'm sure are from the splogs, and more that I think could well be.

But I'm totally with you on one thing, people shouldn't splog.