Porn Blogging 4 Dollars

It’s been awhile since I posted anything here, but I keep getting distracted with other things, but I wanted to post some type of update to catch everyone up.

I had pretty much updated all of my blogs, making them all 2257 compliant.  Unfortunately, the guys at the adult blog free host BlogBugs got some type of glitch that resulted in losing all of their blogs.  They were able to restore the blogs from a backup from 6 month’s earlier - prior to the changes I had made.  Every change I had made was now undone, and the blogs once again had non-2257 compliant posts.  In addition to the changes being undone, it seems they were looking into better monetize the blogs they hosted, and my blogs now had various “float over” advertising, depending on the categories they were listed under, and a 2nd HEAD section inserted into the displayed pages code that inserted their own meta description, meta keywords, google analytics, and top bar links.  I suspect it was this attempt at additional monetization that caused the glitch in the first place.

This time, instead of again investing so much time into reworking each and every post to make it 2257 compliant, it seemed to me like removing the posts entirely was the most cost-effective action.  I wrote them about my displeasure and a month or so later I got a response saying the advertising had been removed, but yet there still remain those 2nd HEAD sections in the code.  Not that it makes much difference, but it’s not even MY HEAD, THEIR HEAD, BODY BEGIN - it’s MY HEAD, BODY BEGIN, THEIR HEAD.  Now, I’m by no means a SEO guru, but it seems to me like this departure from the established format will most likely kill any ranking I might otherwise have had.  Additionally, I now had to go back through all my other blogs and remove the links pointing to these blogs, so that their linking wouldn’t adversely affect their rankings as well.

I could delete the BlogBugs blogs entirely, but why sacrifice what little traffic may still be tricking in, when I can still provide links to my sponsors for the surfer to peruse.

Oddly, a single blog ( Movies on Demand ) was unaffected, though other than dropping by from time to time to import new posts with the aggregator, I’m not going to waste any time on it.

Off to a late start today.  Friday is usually the day I update my Blogtur blogs, and found myself making the same changes to them that I did my Thumblogger blogs.  While in there, I realized they weren’t as optimized as they could be, specifically the blog titles.  For the newbies an important bit of advice:  titles are THE most important part of any webpage. So, in the template I appended the title field to plug a few more keywords, which is especially usefull on the index page which before just had the blog title.  Again, there were links to be added or removed and again I added the CashTraffic banners in prominent spots.

For the newbie or even the experienced webmaster or blogger I whole-heartedly encourage using Thumblogger.  It’s an excellent platform with loads of features built in and great support by the platform team.  But I also take to heart the old adage about putting all of one’s eggs in one basket.  I think it’s a good idea to spread your blogs around to other adult blog free hosts such as Blogtur.

One feature Blogtur offers is a feed aggregator where you plug in RSS addresses, pick which of your blogs you want them to post to, and then whenever you log on you just click a single button and all the new feed items are added to their specified blogs.  Pretty handy to make a lot of posts on multiple blogs with a single click of the mouse.  However, there are drawbacks:

1. ALL items are added, you can’t specify just one blog or one feed without disabling the others first.
2. The categories sometimes have a mind of their own, so even after the items are added you may want to re-specify what category they should be under.
3. These items are verbatim from the RSS feeds - so either you want to edit them afterwards, or use morphing feeds if available.

Another drawback to this platform is that there aren’t widget tools for creating or editing entries, it’s all raw html.  This isn’t a big deal for the experienced blogger/webmaster, but if you’re new to the game you may want to stick with other platforms until you become more adept at reading and writing code.  Also Blogtur doesn’t work well with javascript, but it handles objects just fine - I’m not sure about embedded videos, I’ll check that out and post it as a comment on this entry once I try it.  And finally, there are no widgets or boxes to easily add or remove elements.  If you want to add or subtract something from the layout, you’ve got to do it in the template html - again, not terribly inconvenient for the experienced blogger, but daunting to the newbie.

While Blogtur is best suited for creating doorway pages (splogs, or spam blogs, that offer little to no original content and are used to funnel traffic to one particular site), I found it ideal to use for Adult Site Review Network in order to promote a hosted review site that contained a nofollow, noindex tag.  I’m using their RSS feeds, so I mostly leave the feed content alone and have created a blog whose content IS indexed and IS followed, directing most of the traffic back to them while also providing links to some other sponsor sites.

Allright, enough about all of that, now it’s time to get back to what I said I would do today.