Why join? At first, my sole purpose of joining such a website is to make people take a look at my website, thinking that something I created can be recognized and appreciated. This is because I know nothing about SEO or something like it. All I know is, my content has to be rich in keywords and search terms, like porn, sex, barbra streisand, taylor hicks, etc. That's the only thing I know about SEO. That's why I joined Blog Traffic Exhange Sites. Sites like Blogmad, BlogAdvance, BlogExplosion, etc. They helped drive traffic to my site. In exchange, I browse other blogs. Everytime I browse a blog listed in the BTE site, I get someone to take a look at my site. For 25 seconds. The more blogs or sites I browse, the more surfers get a chance to take a look at my site. For 25 seconds. But my site loads in about 30 or more seconds. So by the time my site is done loading, the 25 seconds is up and the surfer has gone on to another site, waiting for the 25 seconds to expire to move on to the next site. A cow's opinion. It's a moo point. Sure I can make my site load faster, but at what expense? No more scripts, graphics, and whatnots? Like it can function without those things. So instead of redesigning my site, I think I'd rather NOT join a BTE site. Besides, all I read about in other blogs are about politics, the weather, somebody's dog, football practice, whatever. Most of the blogs have even started promoting animosity by making a day of the week a FOAD day. What the heck were they thinking? Sure there are other noteworthy blogs, but compare those few with the million other blogs who have nothing better to do than share their misery. Sure, misery loves company. But please, knock on someone else's door. I'm miserable enough on my own, thank you very much. I really don't care about other blogs in general. It's really up to the owners what they want to put on their sites. Yes, it is everyone's right to whine and complain and place blame on somebody else besides themselves. My question is, are you just gonna sit there and do nothing, or are you gonna do something about it so that you won't have to experience it again? Stop complaining and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Me? I will not be joining a BTE site again. This may be the last entry you'll see while browsing Blogmad, or BlogAdvance, or whatever. Live and let live.