So I see people selling 'posts' on their 'blog network'...things like 400 posts for $25 bucks or something... I have a few questions... 1. If I was interested in this, how is it done? (to automatically post to 200 blogs...) i'm thinking RSS of some sort? 2. How well does this work? I mean, most of these 'networks' are a bunch of different niches...posting one article on maybe web hosting to tons of different niches seems kind of pointless to me...
I sell posts on a blog network ( 40 Blogs, 21 Ips ) and yes your right, we use a rss reader on all our blogs accept our main blog which just gives the rss feed URL. However be careful, networks which have 400 and some odd blogs can sometimes be very spammy to the search engines as they are all on just a few ips. I usually limit my network to 2 blogs per IP and people seem to enjoy that from me.
thanks for the info, glad I was correct on my guess how do you manage to keep these blogs on a certain 'category' when you have other people posting random posts across all the blogs?
Yup yup. Although wordpress/blogspot I believe have an exception to this rule. Either way, 200 IPs, 1.5k blogs and counting.
wordpress and blogspot are nothing like the type of blog network i'm talking about...they don't sell posts on all their users blogs
To my knowledge when you make a post it always goes into the default category. I am not sure if it is possible to make them go in certain categories or not. Never attempted.
i meant category as in the niche of the blog itself, not actual categories on the blogs, sorry for the confusion
Oh np, well in my case, I just make them general blogs, but you can create a network with any niche you want, but I doubt you will make as many sales unless its a big niche like web resources or something.
If you're building a true blog farm, you don't use it to make money. You use it to PROMOTE the sites that you're using to make money. Or sometimes, to promote the high-pr links that might take longer than you'd like to get re-examined by google. A flurry of blog posts can get pretty much anything indexed really really quickly.
haha potentially. However, without using scraped content, it's pretty hard to update a crap ton of blogs. And if you're using scraped content, adsense is a bad idea. If you markov it, it's a worse idea/ Although, if you're specific about what you scrape, affiliate links might work. Hint:Blogspot uses templates, so it's really easy to write something that scrapes the content.
I have about 60+ Blogs, but mine aren't auto content and random posts, I update them all manually, I do cross post between Blogs ie. Copy and Paste relevant articles to similar Blogs (that I own). I personally don't use the Blog farms to advertise though as I think Google and SEs are smart enough to realise that the same content is spammed across the network and may dismiss all the similar posts - hence may be worthless for my purposes. I also get offers all the time for reviews and for including links in my posts, I am only just starting to offer my services though which include posting other peoples relevant articles to relevant Blogs - which I think is more effective and works for me.
I can assure you, they're not. If it's 100% identical, or even 75% identical, you have a problem. But there's about a million ways to swap around the content. Also, remember, if you use the blogs to advertise, you're not trying to get them to rank. So google doesn't have to LOVE them, just index them.
Quite honestly i would stay away from them they are spam networks and pass no value what so ever. You want to focus on links from organic looking sites that have unique content and that are established websites.
Spoken like someone who's never run one. They're not like a PR7 links or anything, but if you have different domains, different IPs, and can dodge dupe content filters, they have the ability to be astounding. Only a few backlinks result from the blog/ping, but there are other ways to get links. First off, interlinking them(being careful to dodge the link farm appearance) via the blogroll. Second, link spam(if that's your bag, I don't judge if it is), and third, scraping an RSS, making some generic comment, and going for the trackback. Do enough of those, and the blog farm with be worth it.
Nah there junk, trust me. Google will spit them out in a heart beat. They'll pass you no value what so ever you'd be better off paying 50 dollars for 1 contextual link from a high quality blog. *Uniqueness is the key* Put it this way I've helped clients hit ranking for keywords that are the most competitive in there niche did they do this by buying links from spam networks? Nope