Splogs

[phuckbunny]

Can someone give a link to a splog, good or bad, doesn't have to be yours. I'm just curious how much spam is involved.

[mynameisjim]

Is it that hard to find a splog??

General rule is a splog sells in the content and a real blog sells in the sidebars. Not hard and fast rules but a good rule of thumb.

[balls_deep]

so then this is a splog?

http://spookyblog.com/aid/

[phuckbunny]

I'm doing 50/50, but we're talking about porn here, all rules are differnet. Again, fleshbot is the only "real" blog I know of that is VERY successful. But if using those criteria, fleshbot too is a splog.

Real blogs sell in the sidebars in the non porn world from adsense, blogads, etc and other PPC things. In the porn world it's ALL about selling. Help me out here guys.

I suppose my question is how different would a splog be from a blog that I actually put effort into?

[phuckbunny]

And by effort I mean actually making up that silly shit that passes for copy (but gets me sales).

[mynameisjim]

I would call spookyblog a splog.

But don't get lost in the terminolgy. Just because something is a splog does not mean it is of no value to the surfer.

Personally, I call any blog that sells something in the content to be a splog. That doesn't always mean it's worthless.

The surfers that found your blog, read your content, looked at your gallery, then signed up obviously found your splog to be useful in their search (unless you lied or used phony content). But even then they may end up being happy that you told them about the paysite they ended up joining.

But even if you are making a splog you should adopt a writing style or certain point of view for your posts and give it some flavor.

[theviking]

splog = spam blog.
IMO it consist mainly of ads and a rss feed from one or more sponsors. No handwritten articles, no informational at any way, just plain spam.

It's not too easy to find a splog, cuz it will not show up in high places on SE's and it will not have gross of links to it from other sites.

It lays mainly there to try to sell to the few that find it, or to feed a feeder blog of yours.

[balls_deep]

thanks viking, that was a great explanation.

So what exactly is a feeder blog then? A handwritten blog geared to a sub-niche that is updated infrequently?

[theviking]

Originally posted by balls_deep

So what exactly is a feeder blog then? A handwritten blog geared to a sub-niche that is updated infrequently?

IMO (There can be others defining it other ways) a feeder blog is a micro niche blog wich you use to feed your main blog. It consist of textrich posts (either made by you, good descriptions from sponsor galleries or small parts of free text for you to use---it can be found some at cozyacademy), where the pictures should be small, and you apply a link to you'r mainblog in every post. It is neither overfilled with ads, but have hundreds of links to hardlinktrades, directories, linklists and toplists (+ others if you may find them) wich you trade with.

The main purpose of a feeder blog is to feed your mainblog.

Now...i don't have to tell you how to set up your main blog?

[balls_deep]

damn, theviking i forgot the most important question.

What is a blog?

thanks for the explanation, i have been trying to decode that from the board for a few months now. i hear all this talk of traffic and feeding but a precise explanation i was lacking.

[Hammer]

SpookyBlog is a great looking blog, but IMO, it's a splog. It offers primarily links to porn galleries and no real substance beyond that.

IMO, a splog is a blog that when you analyze it is basically a fake TGP with text descriptions of the galleries. Yeah, it's not updated with as many galleries per day as a TGP, but the concept is the same.

Personally I think most porn blogs are splogs.

Here's a porn blog that is not a splog.

http://www.horndog.com

[theviking]

Originally posted by balls_deep
damn, theviking i forgot the most important question.

What is a blog?

A blog (short for web log) is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

[phuckbunny]

I got it, guys & gals! We're ALL splogs. And Hammer no offence but with not one, not two, but three banners for AFF as well as links to the ye olde sponsors in the copy, horndog.com is too a splog according to the definition us cozy folks have made the consensus on so far in this thread.

And if this question ever pops up again - we can always rely on the #1 splog search engine called
http://splogspot.com/ - funny as hell!!!

Not sure if this can actually do anything for us smut peddlers or if it belongs in one of my personal favorite jokes - wwww.uncyclopedia.org - but now I know what a splog is. Basically with the exception of Hammer's 'uncut' blog, all we do is splog. Bring it on! And Hammer, you ARE rolling in the bucks just by running a non-porn blog, right? I mean splog? Wait, blog! Or is it a splog? Shmog? Just teasing. OK time for bed.

[balls_deep]

splogging i will go, splogging i will go, high ho the dairy-o a splogging i will go.



so hammer, what makes horndog a blog rather than a splog in your opinion?

[Hammer]

Phuckbunny and Balls, Horndog is not a splog because he actually writes about interesting topics, most of which have nothing to do with making money.

A splog is a 'spam blog' which means that every single post is written with the express purpose of making money.

Sure, Horndog has lots of advertising, and a lot more than I do on Hammer Uncut, but there is a purpose to the blog beyond just trying to make money.

Look at the politics page on Horndog. http://www.horndog.com/category/politics/

There's nothing splogish about it.

No one says you can't advertise on a blog, but it doesn't become a splog until you advertise something in every post. Most porn blogs are splogs. They are not written to entertain and attract loyal readers, they are nothing more than daily posts of galleries and content posted with the express purpose of enticing someone to pay for something.

There are plenty of mainstream splogs too. John Chow used to have a useful and popular blog about SEO and making money with blogs. Now his blog is becoming more and more like a splog with paid reviews and spam posts. It's obvious from the comments lately that his readers are starting to notice too.

[theviking]

I do belive it all boils down to how each and everone of us define different words.
Splog, spammy blog, a blog with spam, a blog with ads, a selling blog, blog spamming.
All of these phrases have different negatives and positives in the way they are written....however, i do agree with Hammer, that a real, true blog is a blog where the posts are written from enthusiasm of the blog owner, and not posts where the main objective is to sell and make money from it.

More and more "real" blogs does either way turn into "Splogs" or blogs where the main objective is to sell, and make money, and therefore my belive is that blogs soon will be a dying spiece(might not spelled right), when it comes to SE traffic....google allready have algorithmes set up for blogs, where you will fall down on the SERP's unless you update every day.

[phuckbunny]

OK the semantic issues seem to be somewhat resolved, and the conclusion is that most porn blogs are indeed splogs. However, unless your splog is filled with gibberish I'm not sure how google can retire you to the splog dustbin. I'm tired.

OK so PR is measured, as a basic rule of thumb, by the number of incoming links, including or not, link exchange. I would imagine that links to you from adult blog directories probably do nothing, much like link dumps.

And then I see blogs with next to zero friends links or blogrolls show up very high in google. Fleshbot may be a bad example b/c they've been around forever, are owned by a mainstream blog, and probably have some marketing geniuses working with them.

But how the hell does a gay blog like
http://www.queerclick.com/
which is obviously a SPLOG as we defined in this thread get 200,000 visitors a day as they claim.

Is time and patience to building up more content key? What if you're building up content day in and day out but traffic is still shit? As I said, I'm tired and feel stupid. I'm not sure how well my blogs are being crawled and I thought the whole point of blogging was that it was great for SEO.

[balls_deep]

don't be discouraged phuckbunny, we are blogging so remember that there is an ideal way to have a template set up so google hits the right text. if you are that frustrated, why don't you slow your posting to a crawl while you start another blog. maybe try a niche similar to what you are doing now. or a sub-niche.

i just checked my very first blog that i started 6 months ago. i've made like 5 post on it since December, haven't traded links really (i got 2 trades plus 15 directories), and just genuinely neglected it. the post were torn from ripping down my explicit images, it was just a mess. I hit my wordpress stats for some reason the other day and was amazed to see 150 uniques. i've been getting that many uniques to it for a few months without posting or trying. I immediately decided to check my stats for the domain which has also been sitting rather idle. i was surprised to see that 50% of the traffic to the domain was coming from search engines. MSN showed more hits to me then google. i went to google hit my indexed stats for that domain. whoa, 1400 pages indexed and i didn't do a thing. Well needless to say i have since completely re-themed the site and started posting again.

my original domain/blog hasn't sold a thing to this point due to its neglect poor inital construction, but if i didn't get tired of my initial futile attempt, i would probably still be fighting with that horrible template i was trying to use and frustrated the same as you are.

some themes index better than others, and sometimes you just get lucky. I'm sure google has algorithms to test if there are post cued, or how a typical splog behaves. They publish only an idea of how thier rankings are based its up to us to find the cracks in the system.

if you are frustrated take a break and start something new. even if that fails you will gain some more knowledge from it. Your blog will still continue to get hits as long as you have some trades. Your domain will be waiting for you.

by the way, im not saying completly abandon your blog, it just might be time to start another one. Maybe you'll create something that sells real well within the next three months and check your stats one day to find some solid page rank and instant traffic from your current blog.

oh well i'm too long winded tonight.

good luck phuckbunny in whatever you decide.

ps... PM coming your way.

[mynameisjim]

There are some nuggets of good info in that last post by Balls_Deep.

As for the Queer click blog you mentioned:

They have over 11,000 pages indexed by Google and over 750 back links which Google always under reports so they probably have more. That's why it does well among a few other things.

The only way to learn with the blogging is to make a bunch of them and learn what is working and what isn't. Over time you will see a pattern of success and failure and you will know where to put your efforts. Can't really teach it, you just have to learn through trial and error.

[Hammer]

Originally posted by phuckbunny
But how the hell does a gay blog like
http://www.queerclick.com/
which is obviously a SPLOG as we defined in this thread get 200,000 visitors a day as they claim.

You seriously can look at that blog and not understand why they get a ton of traffic?

It's a gay blog. They give away the fucking farm for free. Figure it out.

Now, a straight site like that would convert like shit because they don't even make you go to the trouble of clicking to a gallery and then clicking tiny thumbnails to see the pics, they show it all to you in each post. But, it's a gay blog and gay guys are different. They aren't all a bunch of freeloaders looking for free porn to jerk off to. Some of them are actually willing to pay for good content, so I suspect that the conversions that blog sees are quite good.

The idea behind that site is actually brilliant, because instead of posting a couple small thumbs and then forcing your visitors to go off site to vew a gallery, they basically show the gallery to you right in the post.

Here's the problem though. As a parent, I think that site sucks. There is no warning page and they put it all right out there to see for anyone coming from a search engine to stumble on. Personally I think they would convert just as well if they left the hardcore off.

p.s. No 2257 info either. All I can say is if the owner of that site lives in the U.S., he's an idiot. He used a proxy to hide his Whois info, so maybe he thinks that will actually protect him.

It's site like this that fuel the people behind COPA.