What I’m about to say doesn’t necessarily apply to things like pay site blogs and their related hosted blogs, but one thing I do on my blog is talk about politics. Sex is very political and our rights as gay men are under continuous attack. A lot of gay guys have become complacent and are just along for the ride. It’s good to remind them to make a difference - even if it’s a small one.
Our blogs have power, and it’s not a bad thing at all to use that power to make a difference politically. It won’t hurt your blog - if anything it makes it seem more real… I get comments all the time about how guys like my mix of politics and sex. And even the guys who disagree with me usually respect where I’m coming from…
And it’s all mixed in there with sex. Today I even published the thoughts of a bug chaser I’ve been talking to - he related what’s going through his head right now - he’s neg and “taking all loads”… Fascinating stuff…
I don’t see many others in the porn industry using their sites to be political and make a difference. So this is my appeal to you guys to think about what you can do with the elections coming up. Even some non-blogs can put political ads and messages into their banner rotations, or add a political action message somewhere on their site…
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i used to have a friend who did that. while she did get her messages out there, her blog had less and less bookmarkers. she finally had so few regular readers that she just shut down her blog entirely.
maybe there’s a better way to do it than she did, although she mixed in a lot more porn than message blogs.
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For myself, I don’t use the porn blogs for much politicking, but I do use them to refer readers who might want a break from the porn to my more opinionated blog.
I’ll have ads on the sidebar for it, and even do the odd post on some pet topic at any of my porn type blogs
Sometimes, I’ll even write in a hook, in a story, that I’ll link to a post on my talk blog. whistle
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[QUOTE=basschick;11772]i used to have a friend who did that. while she did get her messages out there, her blog had less and less bookmarkers. she finally had so few regular readers that she just shut down her blog entirely.
maybe there’s a better way to do it than she did, although she mixed in a lot more porn than message blogs.[/QUOTE]
It doesn’t seem to have hurt me at all…
I’ve never noticed a dip in traffic due to a political post. I just try to not have too many of them. I can’t imagine something like “Please vote this November. It’s important.” in a sidebar could hurt either… That’s politically neutral (affiliation-wise)…
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The graph is of visits, not hits or referrers… Hits are about 7,000 each day. These days I get about 64,000 visits a month from 33,000 unique visitors.
And since it’s Google Analytics and an image heavy site, actual traffic would be somewhat higher since Google Analytics doesn’t count Google Images traffic (or any pages framed by other sites) until after the person clicks to remove the frameset.
