Opinions on Building Own Blog Network (Private Use Only)
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With the lose of buildmyrank and many other services like this on the verge of extension I was looking at building a small blog network of my own for private use. Adsense and also 3 way linking.
I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this? I know this takes a ton of time to build but if anyone who's done something like this and wouldn't mind sharing some of their tips I would greatly appriciate it.
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Is it safe to register say 30 domains under the same person? Or would it be wiser to use whois protection to guard the names?Anyone else want to contribute their 2c to this strategy please be my guest.
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You think that's costly, try doing it the old fashion way.
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Didn't think of getting bloggers on board but rather outsource the writing and running it all. Did you use your network to link back to your own sites?
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Yes its amazing how BMR goes down and everyones panicked. I guess the moral of the story is link building the old fashion way is always the best way.
Anyways I understand that if you have your own small network of blogs linking to each other is not beneficial and without link juice its means nothing but I had another strategy in mind by not using the blogs to link to your own sites but rather 3 way linking outside of your network using the blog as leverage.
At the end of the day its a long road ahead and can be costly to run a bunch of blogs let alone 30+.
Thanks for the 3 great links Nakul especially the one about google making liars out of good seo guys.
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It's only a matter of time. I know it's frustrating. Read this great article from Wil Reynolds - How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO
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There is a difference between links and linkjuice.
Links themselves are worthless, it is the linkjuice that does something for you.
Let's say that you make 30 blogs and toss them up to the server. Each blog has a few links to your website.
What will you get from that? NOTHING
Why? Because before your blogs can pass any linkjuice to your primary site those blogs must have linkjuice flowing into them from outside of your network. Until you have that your blogs will not be indexed and because they are not indexed they will have nothing to pass on to your primary website.
For your scheme to work you need a source of linkjuice from outside of your own network of websites.
If you can come up with that linkjuice it would be a lot smarter to simply connect it directly to your primary website instead of filtering it through a bunch of orphan blogs.
Lots of people think that they can manufacture links. Yes, you can manufacture links but there is only one place to get linkjuice - and that source is outside of your own network of websites.
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One of my sites competes against a web developer who set up a network of approximately 150 sites. Most (probably 80%) are in the same business. The other 20% or so are geographically relevant. Crap sites (no blogs or useful info) but they link to each other. Developer also set up several directories with only his sites and the name of the city and the service in the domain names. Works surprisingly well for the owners of his sites.
How long can this continue before it topples? Worth reporting?
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Wow, every since BMR (BuildMyRank.com) got booted down, lots of Private Network questions are out there. In simple words, private networks specially when owned by the same person and / or link to the same network of sites are identifiable by automatic algorithms (Think what those Phd's are doing at Google).
Also, you might want to read these similar questions 1, 2.
Keep in mind, you are still prone to risk and whois protection or not, if a human can find it, patterns in linking can also help them identify themselves as networks. Moreover, if these sites are not strong themselves, how are they going to provide value ? so now, you will have to worry about getting links for those 30 sites as well to strengthen them. Otherwise, if there's no inbound links to those 30 sites, there's not much link juice they have to pass.
Makes sense ? I hope that helps.
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I tried this a few years ago.
The strategy was to find good writers and help promote them and get them into news writing and reporting.
It wasn't about links, other than linking to stories in the newspaper, to get more readers.
It was a miserable failure.
It is a lot of work and you have to find people who are interested, get them fired up and keep them interested.
We got a couple of writers and we have one lone blogger left. I shut down the rest of the network.
We probably went about it the wrong way, but I had someone managing it, who we paid, but it just never worked out. If you consider this, you really need a lot of things in place, a great plan, a fired-up evangelist, and ways to build and increase interest.
You could go out and find people who have done this and seek their opinion and advice.
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