Everything You Need to Know About Being a Sex Blogger (But Were Afraid to Ask) Dark Odyssey Spring Fire April 8, 2007 Viviane Viviane212.com

What is a sex blog?

What Do I Write About?

Privacy and Security

Publishing Platforms

Blogger.com - Pros User forum on Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/) Shows up in Google Blog Search ( http://blogsearch.google.com ) Blogger Beta: easier to customize your template using widgets Blogger search engine “ Search Your Blog” or “Search for Other blogs” Hosted, but can be installed on a server Many templates available both at Blogger and other websites (search “Blogger.com templates”) The ability to publish by sending an email to your blog Blogger Beta uses categories, which both help you organize your posts.

User forum on Google Groups (http://groups.google.com/)

Shows up in Google Blog Search ( http://blogsearch.google.com )

Blogger Beta: easier to customize your template using widgets

Blogger search engine “ Search Your Blog” or “Search for Other blogs”

Hosted, but can be installed on a server

Many templates available both at Blogger and other websites (search “Blogger.com templates”)

The ability to publish by sending an email to your blog

Blogger Beta uses categories, which both help you organize your posts.

Blogger.Con - Cons Unless you update to Blogger Beta, you must manually generate and insert tags or categories Unless LJ, unable to find communities of like minded bloggers. LJ has communities focused on bisexuality, polyamory, etc. A recent study shows that many spam blogs, which exist to increase a web sites ranking in Google, are hosted on Blogger Until recently you could not password protect or lock your blog down. On Livejournal you can password protect your posts and limit who is reading them.

Unless you update to Blogger Beta, you must manually generate and insert tags or categories

Unless LJ, unable to find communities of like minded bloggers. LJ has communities focused on bisexuality, polyamory, etc.

A recent study shows that many spam blogs, which exist to increase a web sites ranking in Google, are hosted on Blogger

Until recently you could not password protect or lock your blog down. On Livejournal you can password protect your posts and limit who is reading them.

Create a Blogger.com blog

Tagging and Categories

Bells & Whistles

Blogrolling

Statistics Counters

Technorati

Feedburner

RSS/XML

Search Engines & Directories Many search directories and directory sites Try searching on Google: sex bdsm directory “submit your blog” My favorites: Sexoteric blog news, Sugasm, Google Blogsearch (see handout for fuller list)

Many search directories and directory sites

Try searching on Google: sex bdsm directory “submit your blog”

My favorites: Sexoteric blog news, Sugasm, Google Blogsearch (see handout for fuller list)

Creative Commons

Questions? Viviane Email: viviane212@gmail.com