Originally Posted by esnem

Mike,

From my experience with blogs, the optimal way to generate income is NOT to use the blog as a TGP. For a couple reasons...one, providing mainly text not only gets the SE's to pick you up on more keywords, it also develops readers and bookmarkers to the blog. Once you have regular bookmarkers who read, understand and agree with your posts, it's much easier to sell them on something without even trying.

I run a few pornstar blogs and my highest revenue generating posts are when I post a medium sized image from a paysite with some text telling surfers exactly what's on the site, then link the image straight to the site.

Not only do SE's pick this up, but surfers see it as a well formed opinion with a solid reccomendation to join a site. Never do I write about the price of the site, nor do I try to sell them too hard with my text. Posting clear text of what they will find along with one (1), yes only 1, usually softcore pic is usually enough to generate sales well below 1:100.

I usually link to a few hosteds from my blogs (4 max), to give them a base of content (mainly so people will link them), but the updates usually consist of text, interesting sites, 1 or 2 photos, and occasionally a gallery. Nothing close to a TGP update...and surfers still come back!

-Mike C.