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Old 07-18-2008, 04:44 AM  
Monique Niccole
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Originally Posted by StarkReality View Post
Yes and no, there are only very few free adult blog hosts surviving a long time, seen at least a dozen close shop after a few months, sometimes weeks. So yes, they are a nice addtition for SEO purposes, if they have a decent spammer protection and are run by someone who doesn't start redirecting once the google traffic starts rolling. I just wouldn't invest too much time in them, with a few exceptions like thumblogger and xlogz.

Even after years, some suddenly disappear, like pimpis.com or justwank.com, two pretty early birds.
Thanks for the advice. I've always focused on building high-quality blogs on my own hosting and thought free hosted was a waste of time.

However, I've heard people who know more than me say that free hosted blogs are good for feeder traffic and SEO. I'm definitely not investing the same kind of time/effort into free hosted blogs as my hand-written ones.
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