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Not trying to piss in your wheaties, porn blogger. But I think using your service, or any adult blogging service, is a *huge* mistake for any adult blogger. Penny wise and pound foolish. Short term thinking.
The whole *point* to having an adult blog is to get traffic. To do that, you need to build a brand. The traffic, and the brand, have value -- but only to the person who owns the associated domain name.
Somebody building traffic and a brand on your domain is giving you an enormous gift, because they won't own what they've built, even if you let them use it at first.
Doing it on their own domain (any 8.88 domain they register themselves, even porn-blogggity239.info) lets them build an asset. Doing it on your domain is an enormous mistake, because you can turn them off any old time and pump their traffic to the sponsor of your choice. Not saying you would, just saying the structure of the deal creates the possibility.
People learned this years ago with free hosting for galleries. Over and over again, it was always a bad deal. Older wiser heads said "get your own domain and hosting" in every thread full of newbie advice. Poor newbies always ignored that advice at first (I did too) until they got burned once.
This is that same old wine in new bottles. I try to post a warning in every "free adult blogging service" thread that I see, nothing personal. Just a bad deal that's easy and cheap to avoid.
Sometimes "free" is way too expensive. This is one of those times.
(And no, this has nothing to do with the fact that I've got a portfolio of adult blog domains. Nobody who is trying to save pennies a day on blog hosting will be making serious offers on my domains.)
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