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Whoring Ourselves?

I haven't engaged on this site much lately, but I'm wondering how people feel about "selling" their blogs.

 

I feel like my blog's merely a diary I let people read, I'm not selling it, I'm giving it up for free! I lack tech savvy, the option of broadcasting the anonymous thing on my "real life" platforms and the know-how on promoting oneself without being too shameless...

 

Even though I blog about being a sex worker (ie literal whore) I am super squeamish about using shameless promotional tools to gain readers. I once joked if someone could ID a song, they'd get a free lap dance, but that's about it.

 

Advice por favor. My blog's content is too much for some to stomach, but it'd be nice to know where an expanded potential audience is :)

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Permalink Reply by Little Miss Me on July 9, 2011 at 9:05am

I am pathetic at whoring my blog out, but pretty damn good at whoring myself out and not even for money...maybe if I mixed my blog with wine...idea?

 

I would love to know better ways of getting my blog out there without causing a scene...although I am damn good at causing a scene in real life, I recently told a guy that "I really don't like attention" to which my friend shouted "we went on your fake hen party last week to a strip club! You wore a veil and a tiara!" yeah the guy ran away pretty sharpish...fake hen party was awesome though! 

 

Permalink Reply by Dawn Dash on July 10, 2011 at 12:12pm
Fake hen's night? I LOVE it! Any excuse for karaoke, stripers, shots and tiaras sounds waranted to me!
Permalink Reply by Little Miss Me on July 10, 2011 at 12:16pm
Hehe it was an absolutely amazing night! I'm going to definitely need another one soon, I will think of it as practice for my actual hen party...if a guy is ever stupid enough to propose to me, a girl can dream...
Permalink Reply by Shaneiferd on July 9, 2011 at 9:23am

I whore mine out as much as I can, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Even though it's free a blog is a product meant to be consumed, and like any product it needs to be advertised in order to gain a solid fanbase.

It is difficult, though, to ride the fine line between doing what you can to gain readers and just being annoying.  I picked up blogging as a serious hobby only a few months ago and I'm still trying to find that line.

Permalink Reply by Stephanie Iris on July 10, 2011 at 3:15pm
Right there with you.
Permalink Reply by Mana on July 9, 2011 at 1:17pm

I just cant get myself to whore my blog out. I have this friend who has, for some wacky reason assumed that since she also has a blog, she and I are in some followers collecting race - even though I've been blogging for a longer time! What's worse, she keeps whoring her blog out (on face book, chats, conversations - everywhere) and then flashes me that smug smile of "i got more followers than you".

 

Of couse you do. You're forcing people to follow your blog.

 

I don't get it. I really don't. It's starting to piss me off.

 

BTW, she's my room mate :(

Permalink Reply by Mounting Counting (anonymous) on July 9, 2011 at 3:55pm

The best I can do is drop MAD comments on similar blogs like diaryofanangrystripper.com and titsandsass.com or katstories.tumblr.com

 

I'm trying to mooch off of their more established readership and piggyback off their success in a similar blog genre, that's really all I can stomach though. 

 

I may hustle for a living, but force feeding my blog to people isn't my thing. I can't bring myself to hustle people into following me, voting for me, adding me to their blog roll etc

Permalink Reply by Ginny on July 9, 2011 at 6:18pm

that's a good way to get more followers and if you're reading the blow anyways might as well comment.

I don't really pimp my blog out very much.  Most of my readers I know from here and from commenting on other blogs.

Permalink Reply by Stephanie Iris on July 10, 2011 at 3:17pm
I have a friend who is doing that. It's making me insane. I want to yell "COPYCAT!" at her and run away.
Permalink Reply by Dawn Dash on July 10, 2011 at 12:17pm
I don't whore my blog out much. Which is ironic as the majority of my posts centre around doing the 'Walk of Shame". But it's a great feeling when you start to get more traffic on your blog and more people commenting on your posts. Whore it out, I say. Whore it good. Because as fun as a blog is to write, it's also pretty nice to have people read it and appreciate it.
Permalink Reply by Mounting Counting (anonymous) on July 10, 2011 at 2:17pm

heck yes, well said, I will have to check out your walk of shame stories :) I'm sure I'm among those who will (and already do) appreciate your walk of shame stories....after all I went to two party colleges, it's a rite of passage. 

 

Now the question is HOW does one whore their blog out besides reading and commenting? I certainly love simply doing that, but what else?

Permalink Reply by Dawn Dash on July 10, 2011 at 9:40pm

I think the reading and commenting of other blogs and taking part in discussions on here is a great way to get more traffic. I actually have a facebook page for 'Dawn Dash', as of course this is a pseudonym. That way I can post links to my blog without actually irritating people who have no intention of reading it, and I can still keep my real identity secret.

But I'm in the same boat as you at the moment, I've got to get back into the networking, as at one point I had a fair bit of traffic to my blog. But then I stopped blogging for three months, and in my asbsence that traffic dried up like a nun's nasty!

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