I want have received a lot from this community and feel it's time to give something back... This blueprint is primarily meant for people new to the blog farm business and is introductory. I know these ideas are basic BH 101 but work none-the-less.
I have been in the blog farm business for 8-10 years.. I created and coded MyBlogVoice to provide me multi-user support well before the first release of WordPress MU.
I did this cause I have enjoyed the then power of blogger.com blogs but hated the rather quick rate of banning. So I figured I would be my own blog host to make sure I never get banned..
Anyways, that is my background... Here is a blue print for success for blogging:
The reason blogging is a powerful way of publishing is the simple fact that blogs autopublish to the world. They basically make pings to blog aggragators suchs as PingOMatic, etc... Each post gets you instant deep links which give you inherent PR (not much but get's you a little).
I have two sets of blogs... Money blogs and my seo blogs.. My money blogs contain my offers/affiliate links/adsense blocks and are the primary source of income. I tend to stay in general merchandise niches and many financial niches. Now, for most financial niches, it is pretty hard to rank for the short tail keywords.
But what I have found by accident is that when I used my seo blogs to link to my financial blogs I saw them getting long tail traffic for keywords I didn't even go for. Let's take payday loans for instance.. I was getting traffic for searches like no fax payday loans in minutes, long island cash advance locations, etc.. You get the picture. I found that I needed to cloak and redirect this traffic to my money blogs.
So basically, you need two types of blogs.. Money blogs and SEO blogs that get indexed and redirect to your money blogs.
Money Blogs
The money blogs need to look professional. These are your blogs that your affiliate manager will see. Any autogenerated content needs to be cloaked with human readable content being displayed. I disguise my auto generated content below the fold in the form of user comments and trackbacks. To the affiliate manager, it looks like I have a well intentioned blog getting spammed by those damn black hats..
hehehe.
Anyways, put your offer/ads above fold and on a right or left panel. Then put your human readable content (2-3 sentences) right below this. Make it generic so that it looks good with multiple offers. Perhaps, put a question out there, saying you have heard great things about the offer and ask if it's as good as you have been told by friends.
Basically, make these blog look good to the human eye.
SEO Blogs
Now let's talk about your SEO blogs. These blogs are used primarily for ranking your money blogs. The look and feel of these blogs are really not important. They are used for SEO and ranking purposes only. Create unique posts on these blogs with both links to your money blog home pages and deep links to posts. Take advantage of your money blogs' RSS feed to create deep links to posts. Your posts to these blogs will get pinged and spidered and so will the money blog posts and home page.
If you can put a javascript redirect to your money blogs and if not, put a huge banner above fold that will try to capture a click that will direct users to your money blogs. I find that I get 25-50% of my traffic from my SEO blogs as I do from my money blogs. I call this ranking by accident..
.. and making money by accident...
DOMAINS
Domains are very important in blog farm generation. There is only so much juice blogs from a single domain can send to a given site. That is why multiple domains on as many IP's are critical for success. Any TLD is fine as I have never seen any difference with blogs on .COM's and .INFO's. I have heard a lot of talk trashing .INFO's but they have and still work for me.
Existing aged domains that have been indexed as a site are very valuable. Putting a blog on a site that has been indexed for 5 years will rank 100's of times faster than putting a blog on a new domain. You can buy these on DP and many other places for 100.00 or so.. Also, look for hobby sites for sale that do not make any money...
LINK BUYING
Now, here's another tip into getting a money site indexed and ranking... Google loves large sites and rewards them when they have proper links coming in. A good PR7 link to a MU site can do wonders and pay for itself many times over. Must be a good link and not be one of many in a footer. These are hard to find but our out there.
Wash, Rinse, and Repeat
As with every blackhat technique, you can repeat your efforts on any niche... You will be surprised how many times you get deindexed only to get reindexed and ranking later.. I have party poker links on parasitic blogs that I have no clue where they are at.. I see a cycle that from time to time these links will rank and get me sales.. The lesson to learn from this is the more numbers you have out there the more you will see in a return...
Thank you for reading.. More advanced blueprints will be published here in the near future. I would be happy to answer any questions about this via pm or post.
Rob
I have been in the blog farm business for 8-10 years.. I created and coded MyBlogVoice to provide me multi-user support well before the first release of WordPress MU.
I did this cause I have enjoyed the then power of blogger.com blogs but hated the rather quick rate of banning. So I figured I would be my own blog host to make sure I never get banned..
Anyways, that is my background... Here is a blue print for success for blogging:
The reason blogging is a powerful way of publishing is the simple fact that blogs autopublish to the world. They basically make pings to blog aggragators suchs as PingOMatic, etc... Each post gets you instant deep links which give you inherent PR (not much but get's you a little).
I have two sets of blogs... Money blogs and my seo blogs.. My money blogs contain my offers/affiliate links/adsense blocks and are the primary source of income. I tend to stay in general merchandise niches and many financial niches. Now, for most financial niches, it is pretty hard to rank for the short tail keywords.
But what I have found by accident is that when I used my seo blogs to link to my financial blogs I saw them getting long tail traffic for keywords I didn't even go for. Let's take payday loans for instance.. I was getting traffic for searches like no fax payday loans in minutes, long island cash advance locations, etc.. You get the picture. I found that I needed to cloak and redirect this traffic to my money blogs.
So basically, you need two types of blogs.. Money blogs and SEO blogs that get indexed and redirect to your money blogs.
Money Blogs
The money blogs need to look professional. These are your blogs that your affiliate manager will see. Any autogenerated content needs to be cloaked with human readable content being displayed. I disguise my auto generated content below the fold in the form of user comments and trackbacks. To the affiliate manager, it looks like I have a well intentioned blog getting spammed by those damn black hats..
Anyways, put your offer/ads above fold and on a right or left panel. Then put your human readable content (2-3 sentences) right below this. Make it generic so that it looks good with multiple offers. Perhaps, put a question out there, saying you have heard great things about the offer and ask if it's as good as you have been told by friends.
Basically, make these blog look good to the human eye.
SEO Blogs
Now let's talk about your SEO blogs. These blogs are used primarily for ranking your money blogs. The look and feel of these blogs are really not important. They are used for SEO and ranking purposes only. Create unique posts on these blogs with both links to your money blog home pages and deep links to posts. Take advantage of your money blogs' RSS feed to create deep links to posts. Your posts to these blogs will get pinged and spidered and so will the money blog posts and home page.
If you can put a javascript redirect to your money blogs and if not, put a huge banner above fold that will try to capture a click that will direct users to your money blogs. I find that I get 25-50% of my traffic from my SEO blogs as I do from my money blogs. I call this ranking by accident..
DOMAINS
Domains are very important in blog farm generation. There is only so much juice blogs from a single domain can send to a given site. That is why multiple domains on as many IP's are critical for success. Any TLD is fine as I have never seen any difference with blogs on .COM's and .INFO's. I have heard a lot of talk trashing .INFO's but they have and still work for me.
Existing aged domains that have been indexed as a site are very valuable. Putting a blog on a site that has been indexed for 5 years will rank 100's of times faster than putting a blog on a new domain. You can buy these on DP and many other places for 100.00 or so.. Also, look for hobby sites for sale that do not make any money...
LINK BUYING
Now, here's another tip into getting a money site indexed and ranking... Google loves large sites and rewards them when they have proper links coming in. A good PR7 link to a MU site can do wonders and pay for itself many times over. Must be a good link and not be one of many in a footer. These are hard to find but our out there.
Wash, Rinse, and Repeat
As with every blackhat technique, you can repeat your efforts on any niche... You will be surprised how many times you get deindexed only to get reindexed and ranking later.. I have party poker links on parasitic blogs that I have no clue where they are at.. I see a cycle that from time to time these links will rank and get me sales.. The lesson to learn from this is the more numbers you have out there the more you will see in a return...
Thank you for reading.. More advanced blueprints will be published here in the near future. I would be happy to answer any questions about this via pm or post.
Rob