what else on blog domains?

[ponygirl]

I'm just wondering what else everyone does with their blog domains...if you have a blog at the root, do you put up other stuff too like galleries, fs, stuff not completely related to the blog itself?

I don't know if I'm making myself clear lol, but I'm just not sure that I want to 'clutter up' my blog domain with freesites, for instance. I thought it was good for SE to have more pages, but I've got pretty good PR now, without a huge amount of pages.

any comments or advice?

[walrus]

You probably have a lot more pages on your blog than you realize. All of them linked together in a pretty natural way. Each post not on the index is a page. Each category is a page. If you are tagging your posts like I do...then each tag is a page. They can add up pretty fast.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by walrus

You probably have a lot more pages on your blog than you realize. All of them linked together in a pretty natural way. Each post not on the index is a page. Each category is a page. If you are tagging your posts like I do...then each tag is a page. They can add up pretty fast.

I never thought of that...yes, I would have built up quite a few pages then. It's so different, I'm used to making my own folders and subdirectories, not having them made automatically

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

I now have two blogs and both of them aren't on the root of the domain - they're in separate "blog" folders. The index pages go to linklists.

I'm thinking having a freesite here and there on your blog domain can't hurt - it will help bring traffic to the domain, maybe people will stay and look around at what else you've got to offer.

It's the traffic issue that I'm looking at...how to bring more traffic to the blog. Since mine is on a root, I thought it should stay 'separate' but really, I'm tying it into my LL all the time, so now I'm looking into different ways to do that, and of course I thought of freesites too. (I love your blogs, by the way, they're awesome! )

Originally Posted by walrus

I've thought about building freesites around my blog and using one of the main page links to link back to a relevant post on blog. But that would mean I'd have to go back through that embarrassing newbie stage and learn how to build an effective freesite.

that's an interesting concept...I was wondering about mixing porn surfers and blog readers - can people surfing for porn pics read? j/k
I just always thought of them as quite a different audience, and was planning to send my blog readers to the LL, not the other way around really. But I'll have to play around with a few different ideas now.

btw, building freesites isn't that hard, learning to blog effectively has been much harder for me - we're always a noob at something

thanks for the feedback!

[Simon]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

...I was wondering about mixing porn surfers and blog readers - can people surfing for porn pics read? j/k
I just always thought of them as quite a different audience, and was planning to send my blog readers to the LL, not the other way around really.

This is just IMHO and I may be completely wrong about how to do things.

My philosophy...

Surfers who come in at gallery level are offered many links that will filter them into the link list or blog, for those who don't mind missing the immediate gratification of galleries for the added content available in most free sites, and for those who like to read and aren't in a hurry to get off right now, maybe because they already have.

Surfers are encouraged to check out the link list and blog if they're surfing gallery pages. Surfers are encouraged to check out the blog if they're on link list pages.

Surfers on the blog have links available to get to all sections but only the blog itself, the link list, sponsors or trades are promoted on the blog. Blog surfers are never sent back to the TGP/MGP sections.

Surfers on the link list have the blog suggested to them, and have a link available to go to the gallery sections, but going (back) to the gallery sections is never promoted anywhere on the link list pages.

Surfer values:
3 Blog surfer
2 Link List surfer
1 TGP/MGP surfer

Always try to move surfer to higher value and try to prevent surfer from "losing value."

Again, this is just IMHO. YMMV.

(all standard disclaimers apply)

[ponygirl]

ok, let me see if I get this

Originally Posted by Simon

Surfers who come in at gallery level are offered many links that will filter them into the link list or blog, for those who don't mind missing the immediate gratification of galleries for the added content available in most free sites, and for those who like to read and aren't in a hurry to get off right now, maybe because they already have. Surfers are encouraged to check out the link list and blog if they're surfing gallery pages. Surfers are encouraged to check out the blog if they're on link list pages.

basically, give them choices - if they're not looking for the quick fix, they may be interested in browsing or reading. So you're linking to the blog/LL from the galleries, right? that would be like making a freesite with links to the blog on it, like I do now with my LL.

Originally Posted by Simon

Surfers on the link list have the blog suggested to them, and have a link available to go to the gallery sections, but going (back) to the gallery sections is never promoted anywhere on the link list pages.

Surfer values:
3 Blog surfer
2 Link List surfer
1 TGP/MGP surfer

Always try to move surfer to higher value and try to prevent surfer from "losing value."

you mean from 1 to 2 to 3 or the other way around?

I know this is just one opinion, but I need all the info I can get to make informed changes

Originally Posted by Simon

(all standard disclaimers apply)

that is really funny

[Preacher]

Very interesting Simon.

Ponygirl, I've built some free-sites with my blog link in a couple of key areas as an experiment to see how well the traffic parsed. I think if you tell them it is a blog up front -- like I did -- you won't get many click throughs. Using Simon's example, my theory is that the tier 2 surfers really just want more tier 2 porn.

But I guess if you could find an acceptable way to blind link the destination, like just putting in the blog's domain name as the link and not describing the type of site it is, you may be able to convert those tier 2 surfers to teir 3 -- again using Simon's example.

I could be way off on this, it's just the traffic patterns I noticed in my own very limited testing.

[Ms Naughty]

I now have two blogs and both of them aren't on the root of the domain - they're in separate "blog" folders. The index pages go to linklists.

I'm thinking having a freesite here and there on your blog domain can't hurt - it will help bring traffic to the domain, maybe people will stay and look around at what else you've got to offer.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

I'm thinking having a freesite here and there on your blog domain can't hurt - it will help bring traffic to the domain, maybe people will stay and look around at what else you've got to offer.

I've thought about building freesites around my blog and using one of the main page links to link back to a relevant post on blog. But that would mean I'd have to go back through that embarrassing newbie stage and learn how to build an effective freesite.