after its launch can be an even more daunting task so I have put the
following together as an example of what I believe to be
“Best Practice” for the problems you will face, but
also what the potential profits and benefits are.
Now the first thing you will be looking at is how to set up your blog
network and call me old fashioned but I do like the manual way of doing
things.
I say get you’re hosting with Cpanel and click through to
fantastico and press install on the wordpress button.
The funny thing is that most people don’t even realize there
is an automated wordpress setup built into every Cpanel hosting account
but before you even do that you need to look at the following few
points.
To make your blog network the puppy’s privates of blog
networks and attract the most business you are going to have to look at
a few things.
Firstly the blogs will need to be unique. This means not relying on
someone else setting the blogs up for you and choosing the first rss
feed that comes to mind for content.
Second. You need to have a wide range of niches so you can cater to
everyone who may ask for a backlink or an article to be posted.
Third. You are going to need to put some work into getting pagerank for
each of the blogs. This is an important factor for many internet
marketers and will be a good example of your blog networks strength.
Fourth. SEO quality. The blogs will need to be hosted on different
class c IP addresses. For those of you who don’t know what
this means just do a Google search for explain class c ip’s.
You also need to consider the actual content on the blogs. Having a
regularly updated site is one of the best ways to ensure Google likes
your site.
Fifth. Ensure that you promote your blog network as if it were your
favorite site. This means submitting to directories and gaining
backlinks. Write articles and post links back to the original etc. Your
blog network needs to be active and actively promoted.
With these 5 main points in hand you can start to install your blogs
and get the content rolling. How do I do that? I hear a few of you ask.
Setting up wordpress is as easy as clicking the install button in
fantastico and entering a few usernames and passwords. To create the
content you will need a plugin called wp-o-matic and you will also need
a nice looking theme to make your blog stand out a little.
“Quick Tip Don’t forget that many themes come with
Google adsense already installed so be sure to include your adsense id.
If you not in the Google adsense program already you can Sign Up
Here”
There is a piece of software I use to manage all of my blogs and it
will save you an enormous amount of time and energy in managing your
blog network.
Domain
dashboard has a lot of features which will start helping you
from here onwards. It has a bulk FTP feature which allows you to FTP a
single file to a hundred or a thousand different sites. I
don’t need to tell you how useful that can be when
you’re trying to upload a new footer to 200 blogs.
Domain
dashboard also provides very useful management tools such as
fetching statistics for every site and displaying
* Pages indexed
* Backlinks for every major search engine
* Pagerank for each site
* Traffic including unique
visitors and bandwidth usage
* And robots/spiders visits.
To begin with I managed my blog network with another 2 people taking
around 100 sites each. Now, using domain dashboard, I can see which
sites need attention or more SEO work for link building etc without
having to do 3-4 days research first. I don’t think I could
manage my network without Domain
Dashboard but if you want to keep it relatively small then
you can probably manage it.
Anyway back to the blog network setup. Once you have installed
wordpress, wp-o-matic plus your chosen theme you will need to decide
where your RSS feed to auto post your content will come from.
This was possibly one of the most difficult parts for me to complete as
choosing a good relevant feed is a very important part. Unless you are
going to hire a team of writers you will need to take this part
seriously also.
One of the benefits of WP-o-matic is that you can include more than 1
feed and this is another great time saving tip for your blog network.
Have 1 main master blog which you only post articles which you want to
appear across all of your blogs. (this will usually be articles someone
is paying you to promote) now signup every one of your blogs to the rss
feed made by this blog aswell as the main rss content feed and you have
a fully functioning blog network where you can post a single article to
every network in one move. Just by posting it to your main blog all of
your other sites will pick it up. You may want to take this a step
further and have some of your blogs only pick up one category from your
master blog so that you can post to say 50 or 100 blogs at a time.
Now you can really take part in the opportunities owning a massive
quality blog network provides.