Originally Posted by Jdoughs

Folks, if you're building blogs to make money you cannot have the text as the main featured or focus to the surfer. You feed the engine that, but you sell your traffic with proper photos/videos and REAL sellable content. They should see a site they want to return to, not something that looks like your sisters scrapbook.

Use the blog platform to build with, but don't build 'your fathers blog', who wants to see that? If you want to make a decent living off some blogs you gotta push things a little further then some random text surrounding an image or two.

Ideas? Sure.

• Run a tube theme and import 'tube' clips, add actual blog posts as descriptions and reap the rewards of the text in the engine, but still a surfable, sellable product. You're surfers see tube, the engine sees unique niche relevant text with a video attached.
  
• Run a directory theme/strategy and develop a huge database of posts covering a complete niche. List stars or sites alphabetically and use your tags/category and page structure wisely to create a unique site that isn't really a 'blog'.
  
• Run a photoblog but ADULT. There is so many badass 'photo' blog themes and plugins to do crazy things with images, give surfers 980wide images on each post followed by a gallery of crisp 300x400 thumbs. And PUSH them to the sponsor.
  
• Use the blog platform to DESTROY image search and put less focus on text, but cashing in on tons of valuble long tail search traffic. It's not as gravy being image search but with the new 'search by last week, month etc' its fucking retarded easy to rank quality image terms.
  
• Blog about something new or a little out there, go fishing for some traffic. Build a "mainstreamish" blog that is about Male Celeb Feet and tap into the social avenues that are open for mainstream bloggers. There's tons of them out there, no need to list them.

Think outside the blog.