Old boy networks and hormones

My site is a non commercial site but I would like it to eventually at least earn me some beer money. It's only been going for 7 months now so am working hard on trying to attract traffic to it.

Anyway, today, as part of my daily research I was trawling through the "Top 500" listing over at blogrolling.com to see what the heavy hitters on there were doing to attract so many people to add them to their blogrolls. What I found made me kinda angry.

To understand why, I need to describe my own site a little. I won't give you the name or URL as I haven't made my tenth post yet but basically, it's a community blog which covers current events for discussion. As I'm out of work I spend all day, every day either writing articles, doing research or submitting to search engines, etc.

So I start checking out the top 500, expecting to find great websites but what I actually found in many cases simply did not make sense. For example, when I write an article on my blog I'll read up about it on 3 or 4 network news sites and then write it up in my own words. Then I give my own analysis and opinions on the matter. BUT, on a good number of these so called top 500 sites, what I was finding were sites where the "author" either just added a link to the story on another site and then added 2 or 3 lines of his own words at the end, OR just copied and pasted the whole article and put quotation marks around it. And yet some of these sites were listed on 2 or 3 thousand blogrolls. What's up with that?

Another annoying type of site I found were ones where women who have a very small blog with very little content BUT had an attractive or sexy photo of themselves in one of the top corners of their page was enough to attract hundreds of listings.

I'm sorry for sounding a little bitter and twisted. I guess I am, but more than that I am totally bemused how these sites attract so many people.

Considering every instructional site I read continually preaches you need "great content" to have a sucessful site, how are these people doing it? Is there some old boy network or secret society like the Freemasons I gotta join first cuz what I've been looking at today just didn not make any logical sense to me.?

I'm not trying to have a rant so much as just trying to find the answer to something that's puzzling me.

 

it is all about the value that your blog bring to the vistor.

You can write thousand of unique article that no one care...

however, community blog bring on news that concern it read..and sexy pic can be used by lonely old man...