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This post -- disguised as spam -- backfired on so many forums. I think an announcement of the service in the right place on all forums would have been better.

Rheto, I have many blogs that do extremely well. The ones that don't do much and suck eggs are the RSS splogs. People are taught to "set it and forget it" and don't care about duplicate content penalties, poor English, or overused content. Surfers are not stupid and once they've seen the same image 2000 times, they tire of it.

To me, real blogs are either a) mini TGP or b) mini review site. I have one that's been up for 4 years and it's half promotion, half personal, all dealing with one niche. If I don't make a sale on it, I know surfers are clicking links to my other sites, so it feeds to other sites and I make sales there. It's all good.

Microniche blogs with unique photos and interesting text do well. Some people write the text solely to feed search engines. As an experiment 18 months ago I put up a niche blog with no text, just photos. To this day it still makes sales every day. I use a few SEO tricks to get it up, so to speak. I am sure if I put up lots of text it would probably do better, and it's on my todo list.