hit me on icq, if you wanna save your time with updateing / managing your blogs...

My situation is very similar to Mikesinner's; I've got a fairly large network of blogs on freehosts and want to take it to the next level. There's some great advice here which mostly seem to fall in two camps:

1. 1 blog per domain all hosted on a virtual server.
2. Multiple subdomain blogs on a single domain with WPMU.

Either way, the general consensus seems to be to get your own hosting and domain(s).

I'm prepared to take that next step today, but before I do I'd like to know which of these options is generally considered the better?

I don't know why you stopped posting your stats on the shemp board as well as why you did not choose to ask for advices over there too ??

It's been over a year or so now that many guys recommended you to get your own domains but you don't care?
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My guess is that you are not really looking for advices : you want people to show you some love. Ami rite?
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Exactly...

Some good info here
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=990438

He's got to be here to promote the free host, that why he never leaves them. I bet it's working, very smart idea!

I have about 600 posts across 15 blogs on real domains earning me $700 and climbing 15-20% every month. if i could motivate myself to write 50 posts a day instead of 50 a month i would be sitting pretty. Get some domains and stop being a fag :) 0.02

You need to grow a spine and take some of your income and turn it into capital. Your money should be working for you. If you buy a domain and even get it to 1000K a day stable you will see sales and you will pay for the domain in the first week. It's win-win!

Lets do some link trades!
http://virgins19.com/webmasters/

Supposedly yes, but I've never tried it before. I guess if I could use the link checker suggested here it might be worth trying. I do see a lot of owned domains linking to his directories.



However, I do know that he will usually not accept blogs on other free hosts.

No, TB has turned to shit. I pretty much dislike Twan these days.

Not an option until after I pay my taxes early next year.

wow im not sure whats crazier
making 3k a month off free hosted blogs
or making more than alphasky off free hosted blogs

Well the only thing that worked for me when i comes free blog host. Build a blog to twan hosts and submit to his directories. If you don't submit it your blog will not get a single hit from google. Seem that submitting the blogs is a must thing, to bad that only his directories worth.

Your scheme Mike is great :) reminds me of the free sites days, it will be good is most of the directions who worth submitting allow people to submit their wordpress multiuser blogs

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You can't afford to spend $10 on a domain before paying taxes next year?

heh or that

Sorry, I was half asleep when I posted that. I was thinking he meant to spend a lot more than $10.

I have some info that maybe help you...And I think you can help me start on a project like yours...

Not necessarily true, although it helps.
I have old FH blogs which were never submitted to directories (mainly because Twan won't take any FH blogs other than those on his own FHs), so I linked to them from my thumblogger ones and some of them are doing a lot better in in the SEs than the ones linking to them.

Do a search for some of your thumblogger blogs. I bet that the first listing you will find will be to one of Twan's directories, not to the blog itself.

interesting

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couple more days of working hard to make dump ready blogs then I'll set up WPMU and toss around ideas for my first sub-domains.

I noticed this too. Some thumblogger and sensualwriter blogs I made get ok SE hits just by linking with my other free hosted blogs. Never tried any big keywords though.

You must have done some seo to make those blogs produce $700 a month since, just slapping 40 posts per blog is not going to give you those results. Also it is possible that you must have very good domains too..........

mike how are you doing with fncash (fleshlight)?

obviously i put time in when choosing domains. i have lists of hundreds of quite high search volume keyword specific domains that ive identified to register in future but i write too slowly and get distracted by my other income streams. blogging = boring so i avoid it like the plague but in terms of ROI its very high. I just cant overcome the tedium.

Number of posts does not matter that much compared to link building.

For exampke blog with 30 pots and 50 good backlinks could easily generate same money as blog with 300 posts and 30 good backlinks.

So the advice is concentrate on getting backlinks and not just cooking more posts expecting that number of posts will increase your revenue extremely. Yes of course, more posts more juice for serach engines, some extra hits, but seo work is much more important.

how much traffic do they get, I asume most is search engine traffic?

Dude why bother writing blog posts, as if anybody gives a fuck about cookie cutter porn blog posts, just post the thumbs thats enough. Also the sites you're promoting are fucking terrible

eurocitylifepsc.sensualwriter.com

Look at the thumbs they look like they are from 1993 (which they probably are).

I suggest promoting quality sites with thumbs that don't look like they're from the 90's and taken with a disposable camera.

I might try that later on, just seo the blog for a good keyword and then instead of writing posts just do title, plus a picture and a link to the money site...... I seen some blogs like this too, but they are also traffic trading..... I still need to get my fingers dirty in traffic trading but one thing at a time........

about 1200~ a day uniques across the network. 90%+ from Search engines. I get over 100% CTR to sponsors tours (not fhgs). Also get a suprisingly high amount of return traffic, bookmarkers/feed subscribers etc. Im guessing they like my writing style. I also use my blogs to feed my small niched TGPS. I have one tgp with only 2k total traffic per day but its converting its best sponsor (very closely matched to blogs themes) at 107:1 for 20 sales in the last 6 weeks... so obviously the blog feeder is buying as well as massively boosting my outgoing prod to tgp trades.

You can do a lot with blog traffic but dumping it onto sponsor provided FHGs is just about the worst way of monetizing the traffic possible imho.

I have a couple of blogs like this, but they dont feel the love from google to the same extent. End up needing 5 times as many posts to get traffic. The biggest diff ive noticed is that traffic only delivers to the root of the domain, individual post pages arent getting ranked at all. Unsuprising really. They are however a lot faster to create as can post ten title only posts in the time it takes to write one post. I dont have enough traffic on these kind of blogs to have any meaningful sales/ratio stats tho.

Your traffic conversion is about right....... do you think you can double your income by tweaking your 15 blogs or do you think that they are at their peak for you KW's?

well they have no traffic trades and little to no sidebar advertising, banners etc. So there is still alot that can be done with them. Everytime i add a batch of posts though the traffic jumps another notch within a couple of weeks. My plan is to keep adding posts until traffic growth plateaus at which point i will pickup another group of domains and start over. Most of these are a year old and despite at points, some, not being updated for six months +, traffic didnt nosedive or even decrease in the slightest.

In fact I have one blog site that is around 5 years old now with another 500+ posts on it and that has been getting a solid 600+ search traffic per day for 3 years or more. When it was updated regularly back in the day SE traffic was more like 1500 per day. In my opinion it takes a VERY long time for blogs to dissapear completely from the SERPS. That site earns fuck all from the blog section these days though as it was very general adult terms across a wide range of niches and without any real targetting of sponsors/keywords etc.

I understand what your saying about that sponsor.

As far as text goes no directory I know off will accept a blog without some text and linking a blog like that with anything would bring no SE hits or almost none.

About right? Its awesome! It would have been about right 3-4 years ago. Personally out of 1200 daily visitors to my blogs I would earn about 200$. And no I am not wasting visitors to fhg's either.

bellskids, Are your blogs micro niche or general/big niche ?

I wouldn't say micro niche. But they do target specific themes/keywords with pics and blog text relating solely to those keywords. Then several diff blogs link to sponsors who cater to several of those themes. Remember the 107:1 ratio I quoted was from a TGP being fed targetted traffic from the blogs. Not by the blogs themselves. Best sponsor on the blogs converting at about 700:1 but thats unsuprising when my blogs get about 120% CTR from blog to sponsor. If i sent the traffic through FHGs then I would prob get 4% or so CTR from FHG to tour at best hence the lower ratio at the TGP.

You can't think small in this business, or any business. Even from day 1 when I had no idea what I was doing I bought some domains and hosting and didn't mess with freehosts.

You've got a tonnes of low quality blogs that you can use as a source of links to something much bigger.

Buy a domain (.com or .net preferably) in the either the best niche you know and enjoy writing about or the most profitable.

Make 10 blog posts the first day (at least two paragraphs each and not too keyword spammy). Do your blog submissions as usual. Make some blog posts on your FH blogs in that niche that link to your new domain. Basically promote your new domain in those posts like you do a sponsors site. Also post some sidebar links in your FH blogs to your new domain. Don't do too many all at once though if you are talking hundreds of blogs. Bit at a time and vary your anchor text up.

Make one quality new post every day or every second day. I do a months worth in advance and schedule them in wordpress. Keep getting more hardlinks (preferably a-b-c). That's it. Keep it high quality.

You sound like a hard worker so doing that for just one domain of your own shouldn't be too much of a stretch and $10 or so for a domain and a little more for hosting is not much of a risk.

Mikesinner, you seem to only post gallery links?
How important is that for your success with blogs?
Wouldn't it be better to directly add the images of the gallery to your blog?

This thread has been a very interesting read for me as i am new in the business, just opened a new tube site built from scratch (ThePornGuru.com) and was trying to find ways to get more traffic.

Are blogs the way to go to drive traffic to a tube site or should i use other means? I see most of the blogs mike is making are going to a niche site that the user can buy a membership for.

For example i was thinking of buying a domain and making blogs on each subdomain about a specific niche, each of those blogs would be about videos on my tube site and a link to them. good idea or am i missing something? only thing i can see is that all links to my tube site will be from the same IP.

This is a good one...each post is better than the last!!!!

Good stuff.At what point do you leave a blog alone?

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Pretty much never, unless it's such a failure after a year I deem it not worth the effort. Only happened once in a niche I was new to.

After 6 months or so I usually scale down how often I post to it. How often I will then update depends of how profitable is... usually once a week seems the point where it stays fresh.

Is that u in avatar? Just asking bc I know some females that like the grizzly look

nope :1orglaugh

You're talking about 1 pic linking to the tour? The good blog directories I use won't allow that.

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nice mate keep it up. if you will be on pps, you will be on 3k sure. but nice you are on revs, you will get more money from rebills in few months ... :2 cents: keep up the good work! :thumbsup