Splogging In The Adult Industry - Your Thoughts?

[Dzinerbear]

The Google mantra has always been "original content." If a site has none, then they'll be passed over for the sites that do. If a site is made up exclusively or considerably of material written and published by other sites, I can't see that they'll garner much traffic from search engines, or at least Google.

A certain amount of re-publication would be okay, I suppose. But I'd be sure I was writing most of my own stuff.

Michael

[tigermom]

The Google mantra has always been "original content."

That's the mantra of self proclaimed SEO gurus, not of Google. Google doesn't chant too many mantras itself

I am trying the RSS route big time these days with lots of pure RSS blogs (not just gay, not nearly enough good feeds there). I still keep my "quality" blogs with unique posts (have about 20-30 of those), but I am throwing together a couple of hundreds of RSS splogs. Throwing a wider net in the water, let's see if it brings in more fish...

[Dzinerbear]

I still keep my "quality" blogs with unique posts (have about 20-30 of those), but I am throwing together a couple of hundreds of RSS splogs. Throwing a wider net in the water, let's see if it brings in more fish...

And see, this is the problem. This is why, in the end, blogs will become worthless, not just to search engines but to surfers. You can't possibly maintain a couple of hundred blogs, any of which would be worth anyone's time to read. Surfers have to sift through hundreds of blogs to find anything appealing and useful. Eventually they get tired of trying and they move on.

A lot of blogs these days remind me of the beginning of AVS when a webmaster would put up ONE picture of a naked guy and say "Buy this." Now a lot of blogs put up one picture with the entry, "This is Johnny. I think he's hot. Buy a so-and-son membership and see his cock." Of course, I guess that's why they're called blogs. When AVS became flooding with webmasters regurgitating the same content over and over, it started to kill AVS. To prop itself up, AVS's would launch multiple AVS products to suck the surfer back in with the lure of the newest and best.

Eventually blog traffic will become like TGP traffic -- lots of lookers and no buyers. And the sploggers will have moved onto something else, the next big thing. It's happening in the review site arena, too. Hundreds of review sites, many of which aren't really offering reviews.

I think this is the thing I hate about this business the most. Someone comes up with a good idea, it becomes successful. Then, the vultures swoop in, figure out how to do it with as little effort as possible, then they smatter the landscape with their crappy products, the product concept become tarnish, predicable, and unappealing to surfers, the product dies a long, slow and painful death.

And finally, about Google, you're wrong. This is right off their webmaster's page: "If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first." I know first-hand that original content works and it's what search engines are looking for because I pull in so much search engine traffic. Remember scrapper sites? They were like splogs. They had no original content, they'd just scrape mine and everyone else's, put up millions of pages and they soared to the top of the search engines and stole everyone's traffic. Eventually Google rejigged things to make them disappear and the same will happen with splogs.

One day splogs relying on RSS feeds for most of their content will disappear from the indexes. They'll be dropped to the bottom so the original content rich sites can rise to the top. And the vultures will move on to the next new thing because splogging won't be profitable.

Michael

[Xstr8guy]

Thank you Michael! That needed to be said. :bunny: