The benefits of ABC linking with your blog

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Originally Posted by V_RocKs

I have mixed feelings about ABC linking... ....I am wondering why I would want to help them get the keywork Teen Porn when I want it myself.
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Like I said... It is mixed... I guess it is time for the industry to unite and work with each other instead of against.

I've been blogging for about three months now and it seems to me that the blogging community in general know that they have to work together for mutual benefit.
By the end of my first month I was averaging about 150 uniques a day - hey, I thought that was good for a beginner - and I was spending a lot of time reading other people's stuff. I also posted comments and grabbed some RSS feeds.
With about 300 or so uniques by the end of the second month, I was more than happy. In mid October, still reading whatever I could, I saw a post on one of the feeds that said this:
"I was talking to John over the weekend who's one of the team of writers for Fleshbot.com, and if you think it's difficulty posting twice a week, these guys have to post four times a day. He told me the hardest thing was thinking up new ideas."
So I sent John an email with links to some of my posts and simply said he could use them if he thought they were good enough. I thought no more about it until one night a couple of weeks later when I logged into Sextracker to check my stats and saw that the day total was heading towards 1,000 visitors This was something to celebrate, the first day I cracked the 'thou' so I headed of to the ice box, grabbed a beer and sat down to see where they were all coming from. Looking more closely, I almost choked on my beer when I realised that the 1000 figure referred to the hour, not the day. I got no sleep that night, checking links and tweaking banners and, I suppose, really enjoying myself for a 36 hour period that saw me get over 20K visitors, of which I guess 19,000 came from Fleshbot. The guy had written an absolutely amazing piece about my blog. It's all settled back down again now of course but I'm still looking at 3 times the visitors I had before the 'hit'.
In my usual long-winded fashion, I'm trying to make the point that I hadn't asked for anything, I'd offered to help in the same way that someone gave me a nudge to send off that email.
So maybe it's not about about fighting over key words but more about sharing it all around. As you said in your post, V_RocKs:

work with each other instead of against.

Sorry this was so long, especially for my first on Oprano. BTW "Hello everybody".
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