So I was thinking, what if Longecity has a main blog, where multiple people contribute to it and go after commercial type keywords. And since the domain has some good authority, it could be able to rank for some highly competitive keywords as well...
I know the forum has Amazon links already, and it monetizes in other ways.. but it's messy and not very clear. And the way the blogs are right now, it looks kinda spammy.
What I'm proposing is a blog, with multiple people contributing to it, writing both information and affiliate type posts. Whatever ratio you think is best... And then targeting high traffic, commercial keywords, around multiple topics on this forum.
I could help and contribute to such a blog. I think I could find time for my own projects and something like this. And if there are enough people, it wouldn't be too much for any one person..
I'd go for this -- multiple writers contributing to the common good. Sounds like a refreshing idea. Kudos for trying, Matt. I write prolifically, too; so several years ago I tossed around Caliban's unsolicited submission topics :
writers
I spent weeks working up various lines before reaching a conclusion. Not to be negative or pessimistic, heaven forbid, but I found myself toiling over his listed subjects, googling them to see what others had to say, then attempting to regurgitate the same tired material in my own voice.
Then gave up.
The writing never seemed good enough to warrant submission. Stale. By not good enough I mean I've nothing original to contribute. All I felt was the inauthenticity. Vaguely plagiaristic. I wrote up a half dozen 1,000 word pieces, put them aside, worked on other projects, then re-edited diligently and reached the same dead end: "There's nothing new (under the sun)..."
We're told there's nothing new, it's all been done, written, said, blogged, whatever, and to me the life extension "movement" suffers from this -- too many words. Too many words and not enough action. No one wants more words. We don't want more hopes and promises. Audiences want actionable therapies. We want therapies that work. And now. We wanted them yesterday, and years ago. Meaning: we want therapies now that work effectively to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and we don't have these. To say we do is like lying. Ultimately, see Gertrude Stein, there's no there there in the anti aging arena. Yet. That's the word: yet. We don't have them "yet..."
My conclusion, perhaps wrong, is that until practical working therapies emerge from acceptable human clinical trials, then there just isn't much to say. What do we have to say? Here are the ten best foods you may eat to slow aging -- oh, broccoli and leafy greens, nuts, seeds, hey all the Blue Zones people eat Legumes! Then more subjects: here are the five best exercises to slow aging; here are the important, foundational rodent studies breakdowns; here's more CRISPR dreaming; here are more pleas for money, more complaining about FDA regulations, and why doesn't CR work in humans, or does it work, no one knows, studies of humans take too long, and what about fasting? Does IF that do anything to repair intrinsic and extrinsic aging damage?
So more writing as if any of these strategies shall reverse aging damage just feels like spinning in place. What is actionable right now for aging people? Write that.
And reading these fora you can feel the frustration. Great writers and thinkers post here for a while. Then they get frustrated with the lack of progress, the slow moving wheels, and they go away. New forum writers arrive daily, they ask the usual questions, they get no real and effective replies, they take some unproven supplement substances, they do more weightlifting or HIIT or w/e, and eventually they reach the same conclusions.
I'm over-writing this, sorry :-(
Reason, at FightAging, does a fine job of consistently blogging on what's what in life extension -- briefly highlighting studies he feels are relevant to the movement -- he's constantly pleading and pitching for SENS. For non-metabolism tinkering efforts.,Daily, he's writing about one promising LE topic after another. And, well, I've been reading Reason's site for years, like maybe you have been reading it, and "the science" still isn't actionable. More promises, years down the road, it's the same for Josh Mittledorf's blog -- great stuff -- it's going back years, promises are piled upon promises. Everyone is searching. WTF is Calico?
There just isn't much to say until something emerges that everyone who looks at it can see for themselves -- oh, look, wow, that intervention really works to fix the aging human metabolism or works to repair degenerating bones or torn joints or cosmetically fixes wrinkles or solves human head hair loss or CVD or cancer -- how many billions on cancer, how many decades?
Given all that stupid rant, I'll happily read any new blog you're pushing up the hill.
Sorry to be so long winded and downbeat! The ball is in the court of the science, though, tbh.
Pretty mean and quite cold actually lol.
