Tough decision here... I own a private generic network, and a dedicated one in Payday loans... but I can't say I'm satisfied with the results.
I am still doing a lot of testing however... but I dropped at least $4000 on my network, ASEOHosting Ips.... aged domains etc. We'll see if it was worth it soon.
I think that's what I said... I built the sites up from PR0 via massive web 2.0 campaigns and ******** high PR comments etc.
What tool are using? SEnuke?
If you setup your blog network right then yes its worth it. Its expensive to start considering I am up to over 4k+ blogs for mine. Your best bet is to hunt for dollar days on multiple registers to ease the expenses.
Building a network from scratch is extremely expensive, time consuming etc
Not sure that would "ease" the expenses much.
You still have a yearly renewal cost on 4k blogs (assuming you average $1/mth per IP, and use 2 domains per IP) of $56,000
This isn't even factoring in the actual expenses that you'd incur on top of this. Especially if you use unique content (which you should be doing)
Since this is the third blog network I have owned after building and selling two prior. Yes it does save quite a bit. It will shave off thousands off your start up price.
Assuming you value your time at $0/hr, yes
Saving money vs bleeding cash for starting up a blog network. hmmmm
I see the logic already.
Whether you bleed it via not doing other more valuable things with your time, or whether your bleed it by paying someone... you bleed it.
I have a handful of sites, built from fresh domains, which have PR1, but DAs of 67+... it's not always a simple task to generate PR, though it works most of the time (up to PR3)
Well... I outsource everything and all those costs are absorbed by cpa sites built specifically for my outsourcing budget. And those are sites built from 08. So free labor at its best. So I guess my time is used quite usefully for eating grapes and watermelons while my employees work through the night.
Besides from content, hosting and domains what are the other costs of having a private network?
And how many domains do you need?