if i blog on the internet...

[Dawgy]

... and no one is there to read it, did i really say anything?

for those of with blogs, which cam first - blogging or traffic? this seems like an interesting type of site to get going. i've got to motivate to make entries every day or so, even when there is no traffic... and ive got to promote it somehow & start getting traffic... *head explodes*

anyone with blog experience care to chat a bit & give me some tips?

[Lee]

I think i would rather create a new HTML page each day rather than a 'blog' although i know there are a few community members who have their own blogs so hopefully youll have some more input from them tomorrow

Regards,

Lee

[BDBionic]

I recently launched a blog on one of my sites and it's workin' great.
It's on a porn site, though, so I wanted to be sure I had a lot of traffic to the whole site before attempting to launch a blog because, quite frankly, a significant percentage of surfers just won't have interest. They'll wanna just come to the site, see porn, jerk off, leave. However, with enough total traffic, even 25-30% of the surfers checking out the blog makes for a good number of readers.

It's doing quite well, too, so I'm quite happy with it. Key for me was making sure the blog was driven by what I want to post instead of what I think readers will want to read. It's not so commercial like a lot of other adult site blogs that are just plugs to sell stuff. And the readers like that. In fact, the more personal the post the better response and feedback it receives and the more interest it gets.

[Dzinerbear]

I launched a blog a couple of months back, too. I haven't been able to put as much time into it as I'd like, but it definitely gets results.

I think blogging can be better than putting up a straight html page because Google has, for the moment, decided that blogs are where it's at. And if you use software like Movable Type (I don't know about others) it automatically notifies Google's blog network that you've updated your blog. So it seems to get spidered more quickly.

About a month ago you may remember me writing about a Toronto bar owner being murdered. I wrote about that whole situation in my blog because the bar he ran, The Barn, has been a fixture in Toronto for 25 years. I just checked my November logs and I got 100 visitors who searched for the bar owner's name and found their way to my blog. That's pretty significant, considering those people would not have normally found my site, which is a porn-based hairy man link list.

I think one of the keys to blogging is that you'll want to write about non-porn related stuff to capture new and different traffic. If you just write about "big dicks" that's the traffic you're going to get. But if you write about "Janko Naglic being murdered and the Barn closing down" you suddenly get traffic seeing your banners that wasn't necessarily on the hunt for porn.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

[robin]

The same is true for a regular site -- if no one comes to the site or page; what's the point?. Regardless of what type of site you've still got to be motivated. Take a quick tour of the net and you'll find plenty of regular types of sites that died for lack of motivation.

I have two blogs and I view them as an addition to my other traffic efforts. I also view them as a way to reach visitors that I might not be able to get from other sources.

There's different styles of doing posts, but the key is to keep it interesting and spam free as possible. I posted somewhere else recently that if the post reads like a keyword list of the day; you're doomed.

Just a couple of thoughts.