some webmasters use writers for their blogs who don’t know the niches or aren’t native english speakers or just don’t write exciting text. my first thought is that if you don’t use the proper keywords and triggerwords, you’ll miss search engine traffic. and i would think bad text might annoy the more educated readers…
so what do you think? how important is good writing to sales, bookmarkers and search engine traffic for a blog site?
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Basschick:
I think good writing is VERY essential. Not only for sales, but everything and anything affiliated with promoting/marketing. Especially porn!
You see, to me, it all starts with a good mind fuck. And that usually begins with the way the writer puts his words together, building on what he’s started and capitalizing on a hungry, horny moment that I might be in when I pick up an item or stumble across a website.
Not everyone can write good smut. You know, the kind that makes you curious or paints a nasty picture in your mind or even makes you curious enough to take a bite?
Being a visual connoisseur of porn, if the photography and filming is good, my attention is immediately snatched from the start. If the content is of interest to me, then my attention is even more yours. But as a writer, if the text sucks, forget it. You lost me.
As a writer, I love a catchy phrase or the way something is described. Being also more on the mental side (that’s thinking, not crazy; though some might beg to differ) it almost always wins me over.
But that’s just me. I’d be curious to read what other people have to say.
Ben
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well, i’m a voracious reader as well as a professional copywriter, so i agree. i’m really interested in what bloggers will have to say about this - i’ve seen some blogs that are well-written but don’t include any standard keywords or phrases, some that are weird and some blogs that are poorly written and jar me to read. the owners of those sites just keep going with it, so i’m wondering if they’re getting better result than i expect with their text or if they’re just doing the same thing over and over because they don’t know any better.
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Those are all very good points. I’ve wondered the same thing. But, then again, when I get into one of my low self-esteem moments I put myself through the paces and think: what the fuck and who the fuck do you think you are putting this stuff all over the place? Do you REALLY think anybody’s gonna buy this? Crap like that.
And then I have a drink or I meditate, or go for a walk and feel a bit better. Strangely, this site has also helped me tremendously. Not only in self-esteem but confidence and the discipline.
Later! Going to have dinner now.
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a few years ago i used to feel that way about my reviews. then i’d talk to one of my review site owner clients and find out my reviews were selling as well as their other reviews - and often outselling them. in some cases, outselling the older versions of reviews for the same sites by quite a bit.
that helped more than drinking or meditation 
have a nice dinner!
[quote=ucbearcub;33728]Those are all very good points. I’ve wondered the same thing. But, then again, when I get into one of my low self-esteem moments I put myself through the paces and think: what the fuck and who the fuck do you think you are putting this stuff all over the place? Do you REALLY think anybody’s gonna buy this? Crap like that.
And then I have a drink or I meditate, or go for a walk and feel a bit better. Strangely, this site has also helped me tremendously. Not only in self-esteem but confidence and the discipline.
Later! Going to have dinner now.[/quote]
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I’m not sure anymore.
Text is good for SEO thats for sure. But if I look at my own behaviour in when I visit a blog for example. I surf the pictures or collages, I look at them… I hardly every bother to read the text unless I really really want to find out who or where its from.
I would love to know for sure though, it would be very good to know!
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This is a good topic, I thought about it for a long time when I had to decide whether to hire a native english writer or an asian writer.
It was a calculation with quite a lot variables but in the end I think I made the right decision. I chose the asian writer.
Her texts are quite ok if it comes to the story itself but her grammar is oftentimes not correct or she’s jumping between the tenses. Obviously an english writer would do a better job but at much higher cost!
I pay 1,25$ per article which contains about 70-100 words and 5 pictures plus her internet fees and working stuff like a desk and an office chair plus a grammar course.
I decided to use more pics because many surfers just want to see the pics and many hardly read the text itself. The text is very important for SERPs but she knows how to use which keywords so the google rankings are as good as they would be if a native speaker wrote them. The downloads the sponsor content, organizes it, thinks about the story, uploads it and schedules articles on 11 blogs of mine. All this costs me about 250$-300$ per month and I have 11 handwritten blogs which at least rank well in google and they DO make sales. The best blog gets about 500 google visitors per day.
A native english writer would maybe manage to write 1 or 2 blogs for the same amount of money and I really doubt that his two blogs would make more sales than her 11 blogs.
So in this case I would say quantity is better than quality as it makes more sales. And I can still decide to hire someone who’s native english one day and will have 11 blogs with a huge database of keyword rich text.
So the question is not if well-written text sells better but if it’s worth the higher input, whether you write it yourself or let someone else write it.
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OMG… $1.25 per post? Fuck me! :happy:
I probably pay 15-20 x that amount per post!
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have you tried a blog with better writing? while a native english speaker who’s talented with text costs a lot more, it would only take 1 to 2 more sales per blog to justify the cost - 1 more sale if you’re going for bookmarkers, 2 sales if you’re going only by profit. and if you mostly work pay per sale programs, it could still be only a single sale per blog to make hiring a native english speaker profitable.
also if you want to keep bookmarkers, you might be losing the best educated ones, and they’re among the surfers with the highest disposable income.
just a thought.
[quote=100boys;33763]This is a good topic, I thought about it for a long time when I had to decide whether to hire a native english writer or an asian writer.
It was a calculation with quite a lot variables but in the end I think I made the right decision. I chose the asian writer.
Her texts are quite ok if it comes to the story itself but her grammar is oftentimes not correct or she’s jumping between the tenses. Obviously an english writer would do a better job but at much higher cost!
I pay 1,25$ per article which contains about 70-100 words and 5 pictures plus her internet fees and working stuff like a desk and an office chair plus a grammar course.
I decided to use more pics because many surfers just want to see the pics and many hardly read the text itself. The text is very important for SERPs but she knows how to use which keywords so the google rankings are as good as they would be if a native speaker wrote them. The downloads the sponsor content, organizes it, thinks about the story, uploads it and schedules articles on 11 blogs of mine. All this costs me about 250$-300$ per month and I have 11 handwritten blogs which at least rank well in google and they DO make sales. The best blog gets about 500 google visitors per day.
A native english writer would maybe manage to write 1 or 2 blogs for the same amount of money and I really doubt that his two blogs would make more sales than her 11 blogs.
So in this case I would say quantity is better than quality as it makes more sales. And I can still decide to hire someone who’s native english one day and will have 11 blogs with a huge database of keyword rich text.
So the question is not if well-written text sells better but if it’s worth the higher input, whether you write it yourself or let someone else write it.[/quote]
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It is VERY important. I have been doing blogs for nearly four years now and since English isn’t my mother tongue, I hired my boyfriend to do some writing for me and sales went way up. He is too busy to do it for me now and the conversion arent as good as when I used his writing.
Good/bad grammar has nothing to do with SEO in my exp as I have plenty of blogs (with my crap writing) ranking #1 on Google with some nice terms. However, it affects sales and bookmarkers. I believe good grammar makes surfers trust the site more. There are some pro’s in some cases though. For example, I have one Asian blog and surfers know I’m an Asian person wit an Asian English so they love me and talk to me a lot and I get a lot of bookmarks for that site 
Fishy
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Funny you say that.
I do get remarks from surfers now and then saying the like the text / blog / story but wish it could have been spell checked or had better grammer. Saying that it spoils it when there are too many errors.
But then for every such remark I publish as a comment, another comment follows shortly afterwards saying the opposite and remarking that who cares about the spelling.
[quote=FisHY;33816]It is VERY important. I have been doing blogs for nearly four years now and since English isn’t my mother tongue, I hired my boyfriend to do some writing for me and sales went way up. He is too busy to do it for me now and the conversion arent as good as when I used his writing.
Good/bad grammar has nothing to do with SEO in my exp as I have plenty of blogs (with my crap writing) ranking #1 on Google with some nice terms. However, it affects sales and bookmarkers. I believe good grammar makes surfers trust the site more. There are some pro’s in some cases though. For example, I have one Asian blog and surfers know I’m an Asian person wit an Asian English so they love me and talk to me a lot and I get a lot of bookmarks for that site
Fishy[/quote]
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[QUOTE=gaydemon;33764]OMG… $1.25 per post? Fuck me! :happy:
I probably pay 15-20 x that amount per post![/QUOTE]
Yeah but I guess your writers don’t live in southeast asia where they can make a good living from 1.25$ per blog post
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[QUOTE=basschick;33791]have you tried a blog with better writing? while a native english speaker who’s talented with text costs a lot more, it would only take 1 to 2 more sales per blog to justify the cost - 1 more sale if you’re going for bookmarkers, 2 sales if you’re going only by profit. and if you mostly work pay per sale programs, it could still be only a single sale per blog to make hiring a native english speaker profitable.
also if you want to keep bookmarkers, you might be losing the best educated ones, and they’re among the surfers with the highest disposable income.
just a thought.[/QUOTE]
I think you’re right, it might pay off for blogs with some bigger amounts of traffic at least. I’m going to try this with an indonesian friend of mine who’s english is pretty perfect and her stories are really good. Let’s see how this will work out. She costs me a lot more though!
For new blogs and blogs with lower traffic I don’t think it’s worth the extra cost.
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keep in mind that having perfect english isn’t all it takes to write porn that sells. i recently worked with a guy for whom english is his primary language. he just didn’t seem to like writing words like cock, dick, ass, cum and so on. and i’ve worked with another guy who tended to try to use alternative words as well. what words you use and whether they’re appropriate to be used in the way they are is as important as correctly-written english.
[quote=100boys;33869]I think you’re right, it might pay off for blogs with some bigger amounts of traffic at least. I’m going to try this with an indonesian friend of mine who’s english is pretty perfect and her stories are really good. Let’s see how this will work out. She costs me a lot more though!
For new blogs and blogs with lower traffic I don’t think it’s worth the extra cost.[/quote]
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I get what you mean. I also think that blogs might have some typo’s and stuff as we discussed once because it makes a blog more personal and shows that there’s a human behind all that who actually writes the stories.
I wrote articles myself once and I think my stories were really bad and boring. I found that girls tend to be much more creative and have a better style because they don’t just come to the sex scene but oftentimes create a really sexy atmosphere with the use of nice descriptive words…
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i find that often women’s text sometimes sounds too creative - and doesn’t sell as well. male surfers are fairly basic - put up a link that says “Uncut Cocks - Click Here” and they’ll click. sometimes a more descriptive link doesn’t click as well nor does a link that uses any word except “Uncut”.
[quote=100boys;33887]I get what you mean. I also think that blogs might have some typo’s and stuff as we discussed once because it makes a blog more personal and shows that there’s a human behind all that who actually writes the stories.
I wrote articles myself once and I think my stories were really bad and boring. I found that girls tend to be much more creative and have a better style because they don’t just come to the sex scene but oftentimes create a really sexy atmosphere with the use of nice descriptive words…[/quote]
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Just out of curiosity:
Are you guys saying that you pay writers to write . . . what? Articles? Erotica? Website review? I’ve written some reviews for bonerguide.com when John was with them. i’ve also written erotica and have been published under the pseudonym of Johnny Miles. If anyone is interested, get in touch with me. I’d be happy to send samples. Or, feel free to read my blog.
http://blog.horndawgproductions.com
Always up for new opportunities and expand my realm of experiences!
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as per the thread title, we’re talking about blogs - specifically 100 to 150 word blogs aimed at talking about a particular content collage, also to be made by the blog writer. the writers would need to not speak too much in first person and to describe a variety of niches and types of guys and porn to make it sound hot.
you say you write reviews? i’ll be sending you a pm in a minute.
[quote=ucbearcub;33946]Just out of curiosity:
Are you guys saying that you pay writers to write . . . what? Articles? Erotica? Website review? I’ve written some reviews for bonerguide.com when John was with them. i’ve also written erotica and have been published under the pseudonym of Johnny Miles. If anyone is interested, get in touch with me. I’d be happy to send samples. Or, feel free to read my blog.
http://blog.horndawgproductions.com
Always up for new opportunities and expand my realm of experiences![/quote]
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[QUOTE=ucbearcub;33946]Just out of curiosity:
Are you guys saying that you pay writers to write . . . what? Articles? Erotica? Website review? [/QUOTE]
Yes I’m paying an employee to write short blog articles. She also downloads sponsor content, sorts it, crops the pics into the right size and uploads them again. So she manages the blog’s content.