Well darn, I was kinda hopin you folks would do a newbie blog trial to prove me wrong

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So you're a blogger then? How about you giving some lessons? That would be cool.

Sure why not but I'm busy as hell and time is money so if you want 1on1 consulting you will have to pay for it and I doubt that you are willing to invest a couple of hundred dollars, am I right?

One thing I've noted is the misty vagueness of most suggestions about blogging. One reads over and over stuff that is obvious, like splogs from feeds don't work so great because of the google dupe filters, but everybody always seems to be talking about something 'their friend' does, or speaking in other generalities, or making other statements that are right out of bizop like "it all depends on how much you work".

Several things always seem to be missing - like exactly where does the traffic come from, exactly how far down in the long tail are the effective keywords to be placed, and how does a newbie's blog find places in the relatively limited profitable-keyword serps?

And I notice I'm not seeing many trade requests for blogs here or in the other (gay) boards I read - I guess everybody is all linked up long ago?

You can't expect all experienced guys to reveal everything from A to Z in such a thread, you will still have to do some research and learn some stuff yourself. I really don't like when newbies are that demanding and and think that all webmasters who actually make money will educate their own competition without getting anything back. It took me years to learn what I know today and I had to learn a lot of stuff the hard way and I invested days and weeks of reading, trying, failing, reading again and so on!
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By TGP I assume you mean setting up a post and trade script, not gallery posting? People often mix up those too, saying tgp when they mean posting, and also saying tgp when they mean trading.

I sure as fuck wouldn't suggest a newbie set up a post, buy hits and trade them as a first project. Well, there would be one possible good reason to do that, which would be to introduce yourself as a gallery poster (not as a TGP owner) to the various posts - but it's going to be a lossleader for a while.

I'm a TGP owner as you can see if you check my sites and I haven't noticed any webmasters mixing up gallery submissions and operating TGP's if that's what you're referring to.