Luckily I've been able to purchase resell rights to some software to make creating a blog farm easier and more effective.

The following programs will help you create accounts on Blogger, MSN Live, Geocities and Yahoo.

I bought resell rights to these, yours free.

www.dombom.com/iframes/MSN_Live_Blog_Article_Automator.zip

www.dombom.com/iframes/RSS-Package.zip

www.dombom.com/iframes/geopackage.zip

You can do a lot with these three programs. If you're short on cash, these programs are free and they all work with free resources.

Next, you'll want to add some Wordpress blogs. If you can't afford automation software, team up with someone that can and trade them something of value, such as using the free software above to create some accounts for them.

You'll also want to mix in:
Hubpages
Squidoo
Zimbio
Social Bookmarking Accounts that offer RSS pheeds

Edited to add:
www.dombom.com/iframes/googlebomber.zip
www.dombom.com/iframes/Yahoo360.zip

Please post if these work/don't work on your PC...

Why is this so important?

Let's say you have a good page/post about "10 Ugliest Animals" and submit it to social bookmark accounts, let's say Digg. Now, you use the Digg RSS pheed created to add to your network.

What this does is give links from your network TO the social bookmark pages that contain links back to your network.

You get to use your own RSS pheeds on other blogs as content and as a means to cross-link all your resources.

I know of two people right now that are creating blogfarms with thoughts of selling links throughout.

Eli's SQUIRT service is $100 a month which is pretty much a network similar to the one we'll build.

By building your own network, you will be creating a very valuable resource, one that has extreme value. If you can get pages into the engines quickly, sometimes within minutes, you have something of value.

It is really worth it to do the "grunt work" to build a well-planned network and these can become very valuable resource.

Planning is basically:
1. Find resources that can either use RSS or create RSS, preferably both.

2. Keep a list/spread sheet of the URLs for all the RSS pheeds you have.

3. Create a few "main" RSS pheeds very early in your building. Plan on adding one of these pheeds almost every site you create in the future.

I suggest right now you create 3 files:
main.rss
main2.rss
main3.rss

Don't worry about what's in them at this point, just upload them, one each to different IPs if possible.

Now you have three URLs to these pheeds:
http://one.com/main.rss
http://two.com/main2.rss
http://three.com/main3.rss

As you build your network, you want to plan on adding at least one of these RSS pheeds in everything you do. As you add new stuff you just modify your main RSS pheeds and all your resouces will update with your links without you have to go to each resource.

For example, Squidoo and Hubpages are well respected and you should make these high-quality, silver sites.

High quality, original content isn't always about writing articles.

Let's use Karsten (blue sky) as an example...He has a gold site about Ireland and has created 300 resources in his network to help promote the gold site.

He needs a high quality idea for a Squidoo, and comes up with a lense listing screen savers about Ireland...many of these are Karsten's own screen savers. But he spends time researching and finding Irish Screensavers to create a quality lense.

Then using the screensavers he made, Karsten submits them to all the screensaver directories, getting more links.

Since Camtasia is now free, Karsten uses the same images for the screen savers to create slide show videos to upload to all the video directories...He adds some irish jokes/quotes to the pics, some royalty free background music and here's another potential traffic source.

Now Karsten can create another site/blog about his favorite Irish videos...If you know what I mean.

And Karsten's ScreenSaver and Irish Video pages get bookmarked a few times...

Not only has Karsten created additional white hat content, added to his blog network, he also has created other marketing possibilities with the screensavers and videos.

Not only do creating screensavers and videos allow for them to be submitted to the various directories (getting good one way links), screen savers allow for follow up, desktop marketing.

You can put your URL on your screen savers, sell them, use them to promo your sites and more...

Videos can go viral and you can brand your URL throughout the video.

Once Karsten gets all sorts of traffic, he can start a "Irish Flickr" where folks upload pics only of Ireland and create a link laundering site.

Think about how you can create products that create content that create more marketing potential.

What do you mean by can use RSS?

How do you determine if a host (like a free one) can use rss or not?

Thanks,

Ed

Hi Ed,

I'm planning on you reporting back on the ones that offer RSS and not.

On this thread Top Hat lists social bookmarking sites that offer RSS.
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=64&forum=DCForumID42

We know blogger offers RSS, as does wordpress and most blog hosts will.

I think both Squidoo and Hubpages do.

Any self hosted sites that can be FTPed to can use ZZ Tuel to add RSS.

As you come across resources, you'll need to check on their RSS capabilities.

Kurt,

I think I'm getting a little lost here. Is this blog network part of the 350-500 blogs talked about in the planning thread? Is this blog network of all these resources (squidoo,hubpages, tumblr, wordpress, blogger, etc.) all supposed to be on one theme? In other words, do we do this for each niche we want to be in - build this network as the foundation for each niche? So are main.rss, main2.rss and main3.rss are all themed or not?

And now for a maybe even dumber question - is it OK to use feeds that are burned through feedburner? That is what I was taught lately to use to put on my wordpress blogs for anyone wanting to bookmark the rss feed. Or should I just use the http://mydomain/feed from my blogs?

Sandra

>I think I'm getting a little lost here. Is this blog
>network part of the 350-500 blogs talked about in the
>planning thread? Is this blog network of all these
>resources (squidoo,hubpages, tumblr, wordpress, blogger,
>etc.) all supposed to be on one theme?

They should be about one broad niche...Each can focus on a more long tail keyword, but don't have to.

>In other words, do
>we do this for each niche we want to be in - build this
>network as the foundation for each niche? So are main.rss,
>main2.rss and main3.rss are all themed or not?

Let me put this a better way, it may make more sense:

Create three RSS pheeds and name them:
tin.rss
silver.rss
gold.rss

Right now we're in a "catch 22". We need a network before we can build our link exchange strategy, and we need an RSS pheed or two before we can put the network in place.

So we create tin.rss, silver.rss and gold.rss right now and upload them to hosting/domains we control, and will control for quite a while.

Remember, the great thing about RSS is that is used for updates and RSS friendly resources will check back for updates.

As you make sites in your network, rate them as:
tin
silver
gold

Shoot for about 50 to 1:
50 tins sites for every silver
50 silver for every gold
250 tin for every gold

Also remember:
Tin links to => Tin Silver Gold
Silver links to => Silver Gold
Gold links to => Gold

As you create new tin sites, you add their RSS pheed to your tin.rss file.

At the same time, you also add the tin.rss to your tin blogs. This contains links to all your tin sites and as you update the single tin.rss file, all your tin sites' linking strategy will update automatically.

Also, when using ZZ Tuel and BlogBomb, you can use a keyword search so any tin blogs with the same keywords will be linked to...

For example, you have a massive tin.rss file with 1000 items, each a link to another tin, silver, gold site of your's.

You make a page about "yellow". Using ZZ or BlogBomb (version 2), you add your tin RSS pheed to the page and it will place all links to your other blogs about "yellow", all automatically. Now, not only are you crosslinking your sites, but doing so with pages sharing a similar topic/theme.

>And now for a maybe even dumber question - is it OK to use
>feeds that are burned through feedburner? That is what I
>was taught lately to use to put on my wordpress blogs for
>anyone wanting to bookmark the rss feed. Or should I just
>use the http://mydomain/feed from my blogs?

Sure, you can use them. We'll learn a few ways that we can combine, edit and mix RSS pheeds.

But you should also have the three main pheeds. You can always add your FeedBurner pheeds to your main tin.rss, silver.rss and gold.rss.

Let's recap:
All your tin sites produce an RSS pheed

You put this RSS pheed into a bigger tin.rss file containing all your tin siver and gold sites.

All tin blogs will show these links.

You can control 1000's of tin sites, just by updating tin.rss

If you have a new page you want indexed and linked to quickly, just add it to tin.rss and it will appear across your network.

For now, every new tin site should include the RSS pheed:
http://YourDomain.com/tin.rss

Get this tin.rss file up now!

Remember, you can always change it later which is the main benefit of RSS, but your blogs need to know what RSS file to use right now.

"one broad niche"

For instance,

sports, animals, entertainment,

NOT like these -- acne, baseball, mustangs

Right?

I may have to redo. I was focus on one sport not all sports.

Thanks,

Ed

If you are dealing with sports, then that is broad.

You can then use baseball if that is your sport.

Then you can use long tail to go to:

basebase geographically

baseball worldwide
baseball canada
baseball USA

Baseball, washington dc
Washington nationals

baseball equipment
official mlb clothing

preseason baseball
post season baseball

etc

kelvin

I agree with Kelvin that baseball is a very broad niche.

Every team, every player throughout history, baseball equipment, posters, little league, there's got to be millions of baseball related keywords.

For example, how many types/brands of baseball gloves are there? You have left handed, right handed, catcher, fielder, first base gloves.

Aluminum bats, Louisville sluggers, these are all keywords that should be sprinkled through your network.

Another purpose of your network is for your pages to act as "doorway" pages and use plenty of keywords.

Again, remember that SEO is really about putting as many words on as many pages as possible, then link to those pages.

And this is what we're doing with the network, we're putting as many keywords on as many pages/blogs/lenses/sites as possible, then linking to those pages.

If your major topic is baseball, make a list of your keywords. Use some ranking and make two lists:

1. All keywords you came across in your research (remove the junk). Sprinkle these throughout your network. You'll want to try to use as many of these keywords as you can, as often as you can.

2. Your "best" keywords. Pound away at these, using them for basic SEO, article topics, anchor text, domain names, etc.

This is the same as creating old fashioned doorway pages. The difference is, instead of hosting them all on one domain, we want to put a page or two in as many different places as we can.

This concept is also exactly the same as "spinning articles" and submitting them to various directories. Difference is we are "submitting" them to places where we have control over the articles and all the benfits.

Submitting articles is also another linking method that can use "spun" material, I just feel it is better to spend a majority of your time building your own network. You don't need to get each article "approved" and you have more control over the page than you do with submitted articles.

Another old school SEO term is "hallway page". They were kind of like site maps, their only purpose was to have links to OTHER pages, doorway pages, to get them indexed.

In other words, "hallway pages" are used to lead the search engines to the "doorway" pages.

We want to consider this concept with our network, especially tin sites. Every page you create can easily link to 5-15 of your other resources. Use your tin sites as "hallway" pages. Use your articles and content as a means to get links to all your other sites.

This includes any page that links to you. If you have a page that's been Dugg, link to the page on digg.com. Same with your social bookmarks. Same with directories, screen saver sites, any decent page that links to you, you want to try to include.

You want to continually point links to other pages that point links to your other pages...And on and on...

You want the engines to constantly find links to your stuff and it's up to you to make sure that once they find one page in your network, the spiders will find more and more and more links all pointing to more pages with more links.

Try to mix in a good amount of high quality links to sites you don't own along with your own links. It can't hurt to put your links "next to" sites that have a lot of respect.

Pick your major niche and find the few major sites your probably can't compete against any way...The kind that has a million links or more. This will give your sites more respect and your links to them won't make any difference since they already have so many.

Quickly:
Put as many words on as many pages as possible.
Use these pages to link to more pages.
Mix in links to highly respected sites with your own.

One question on the blog farm of say 300 blogs. I can see how all the linking is done with the 3 feeds but how do you update all the blogs with content on a regular basis?

Thanks
Noel

Hey Noel,

Some of them won't be updated. Because of this, you need to include a couple of links to different pages of your's in your articles.

Those that can use RSS as content will be updated that way. ZZ Tuel will handle this on the static sites in the network.

You also have third party programs/scripts to post to certain blogs. And a few (gold) should be updated by hand.

Also, there's members (Kelvin and Ed) offering skill trades for auto posting here:
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=82&forum=DCForumID42

You asked in the first post to let you know if these programmes work or not. I can tell you that so far none of them have worked for me.

All except the latest "Google Bomber" hang after the captcha screen. GoogleBomber simply keeps putting up more and more captcha pages as if it's looping.

I've visited Peter Drew's forum and found nothing there that helped so if anyone can suggest how to get any of them to work I'd love to know.

Nigel

-------------------

Here's what you REALLY need to begin:

1. Build three of each:
www.Squidoo.com
www.Hubpages.com
www.Zimbio.com

These should be silver sites, meaning each should have a good quality, original article/content.

2. 25-50 (or more) Original or PLR articles or anything you have full usage rights.

3. The ability to spin the articles.

You really do need to have a supply of content you can use. If you participate in the Skills Exchange, you'll need to send others content for them to build your resources.

We'll learn how to spin these articles so that you can create a few hundred sites with them. You'll use the spun articles for your tin blog farm.

Having plenty of articles ready to go is essential to making this all work. You should always looking to "stockpile" articles.

Build tin sites using the spun content and point the sites that you build that can NOT be updated using RSS to one of your Squidoo, Hubpges or Zimbio silver sites.

Use these silver sites as insulation between your tin sites and your gold sites.

Tin => Silver => Gold
Blogs => Squidoo - Hubpages - Zimbio => Gold

Quickly:
Build Silver sites using Squidoo, Hubpages and Zimbio

Build blog farm. If you can NOT update your blog, link to at least one of your silver squidoo sites.

Use Squidoo - Hubpages - Zimbio to insulate gold sites, as well as push traffic and links to gold sites, logging in manually as needed.

Get links outside your blog farm and social bookmarks to your Squidoo - Hubpages - Zimbio sites. This is important.

Since we bombers tend to stay away from Adsense, as a trackable footprint, how about using a simpler Weblog system? I have attempted working with all the CMS apps out there and usually run into something I can't figure out. However, I did find one CMS that is extremely simple to use. It's "Serendipity." Not much said about it around the net. That's another reason I like it. EVERYONE'S not using it!

You can get it free at: http://s9y.org/ .

One thing Kurt pounds into us is "don't look like everyone else!" Serendipity helps in that area. It is also "RSS" compliable.

John

"This site has been disabled for violations of our Program Policies."

I haven't read all the posts here, but just thought it might be worth mentioning.

Hey Alethea,

You're correct, I just checked and all of his pages have already been banned.

If you believe in the law of averages, sometime soon one of Pete's programs will actually work.

John

>We'll learn how to spin these articles so that you can
>create a few hundred sites with them. You'll use the spun
>articles for your tin blog farm.
>

Kurt,

What do you suggest for spinning articles?

I currently rewrite my original and plr articles and
post them on article site and blogs etc. Speeding up this
would be great.

Thanks

Noel

Hi Noel,

For spinning content for use on the blog network/tin sites, we'll use a combo of Tuelz...

Pagez
Randomz
SuperListz
Replacez

I'll cover this in more detail next, as we get to those Tuez, but I did make a post on this in the public a while back that covers some of the basics:
http://www.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID33/51.html

Note: The post above is geared more for submitting individual articles to directories...Just adapt it to creating blog posts, which is actually easier.

Have anyone started creating their blog network? I'm just starting out on it. can anyone show me an example of how your blogger blog and wordpress looks like for this blog network?

and guys, do you buy a third party software to post to these blogs using the main.xml main2.xml and main3.xml? if so , any recommendation of a good software?

Chris

Hi Chris,

For Blogger blogs, you may want to try this WSO:
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=210305

I bought it, but haven't tried it yet...

It's only $12, and is supposed to add updates to blogger blogs using RSS.

The main problems as I see it is that it is a hosted script, which means it uses your hosting IP to update your blogs. Having 100 different blogs all updated by the same IP probably isn't a good thing...

Here's what i thought of.

Method 1
every blog only got 1 blogpost, with SSI script inserted in the blogpost refreshing whenever the main.rss updates. Is that the right way to do? however I still don't understand, if the main.rss updates constantly and the SSI only display say 20 at a time, doesn't the old links get push out of the feed while new pheeds enter? so effectively there isn't increase in incoming links?

Method 2
use a third party rss to blog poster to post everytime main.rss updates. can u recommend an ideal 1 to get?

Method 3
is there another method? I'm lost..

Meanwhile, i'm into health niche and i set up several health portals which r basically content sites. each portal is made up of 5 to 20 subdomains where each subdomain is a mini site of a sub topic.

recently i just installed fatbomb on the main page of each portal.

traffic is pretty moderate only. my best method so far before i joined bomber is article writing and submitting to article directories, which is very time consuming and i got no much time to do that effectively.

Each mini site got a rss feed of their own hence after joining bomber i realised that by using the feeds on these sites it may help to generate traffic to the sites. what do you think? i just got a copy of rss submit and am now starting to submit feeds.. any other things i should do?

appreciate your advice. Thanks!

Christopher

>Hey need your advise and guidance on setting up a running
>blog network as I'm a bit lost at how to do it. I have no
>problem setting up 100 blogs doing the grunt job, I also
>have no problem setting up main.rss pheed with blogbomb by
>combining feeds together, but I can't figure out how to put
>all together.
>
>Here's what i thought of.
>
>Method 1
>every blog only got 1 blogpost, with SSI script inserted in
>the blogpost refreshing whenever the main.rss updates. Is
>that the right way to do?

I don't understand? I don't think you can use SSI on most blogs.

>however I still don't understand,
>if the main.rss updates constantly and the SSI only display
>say 20 at a time, doesn't the old links get push out of the
>feed while new pheeds enter? so effectively there isn't
>increase in incoming links?

Yes...If you use BlogBomb and the links are dynamic and will change each time the page is called. This can be advantageous as it's a good way to expose a lot of links to the spiders on a few pages, espcially if these pages have decent PageRank. This is how the bookmarking sites work.

However, you can also convert Fatty pages to static pages, then the links will also be static/permament.

Basically, put the pheeds into BlogBomb, have Fatty read BlogBomb and display your RSS pheeds in the results based on keywords. Give the feeds a very high "weight" so they appear high in your results.

Then convert the results to html pages and upload.

Same with ZZ Tuel...ZZ Tuel will archive the links in the RSS pheeds on static html pages, making them permanent.

>Method 2
>use a third party rss to blog poster to post everytime
>main.rss updates. can u recommend an ideal 1 to get?

Actually, you don't need every single blog to update every time.

Use the RSS Explosion to add RSS to Blogger blogs. See the first post in this thread.

Easy Blogger Creator can also use RSS.

I also posted a link to a WSO that offered a program, in answering this question before...You'll need to find it.

WordPress has a plug in or two, and Top Hat Bob is an expert on WP and RSS...

>Method 3
>is there another method? I'm lost..

Work on the methods above before doing other things.

>Meanwhile, i'm into health niche and i set up several health
>portals which r basically content sites. each portal is made
>up of 5 to 20 subdomains where each subdomain is a mini site
>of a sub topic.
>
>recently i just installed fatbomb on the main page of each
>portal.
>
>traffic is pretty moderate only. my best method so far
>before i joined bomber is article writing and submitting to
>article directories, which is very time consuming and i got
>no much time to do that effectively.
>
>Each mini site got a rss feed of their own hence after
>joining bomber i realised that by using the feeds on these
>sites it may help to generate traffic to the sites. what do
>you think? i just got a copy of rss submit and am now
>starting to submit feeds.. any other things i should do?

In addition to RSS Submit, combine them all into a single pheed AND make a blackhole or two out of them.

See the thread on Scrubz for Link Control for combining pheeds:
http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID42&conf=DCConfID5

Create a real good blackhole and use it for content and linking across your tin sites.

Spend a day creating your blackhole RSS, using PLR content or content you have written.

Then, learn how to verify and correct the RSS.

As time goes on and you add more sites, blogs, lenses and pages, just update your blackhole files.

Next period, I'll show you how to take all the articles you've written and make them into a good blackhole RSS.

A very good blackhole is not only good for submitting, it's also great for your own linking AND it's a powerful "content maker".

At this point in time I'd say mastering the blackhole RSS is Priority One.

Your link shows index of this subforum
Should be http://www.dombom.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=80&forum=DCForumID42

Tasari

At the risk of sounding stupid, how do I syndicate my websites to each other so they are updated automatically. Do I install blogbomb on all of the sites?

I'm trying to grasp the concept of main1.rss, main2.rss, main3.rss. I know one is for tin, one for silver one for gold. But same question, how do I syndicate to all my tin sites, etc.

Sorry I'm an old man and sometimes my brain doesnt work like it used to.

Gil

Sports moderators wanted. Join the sports-blog and share in the revenue generated.
http://sports-blog.com/community/

Gil,

Please read post #23 on this thread. I've also answsered this question a few times on other threads.

anyone bought and used this software? anyone got any solutions to the issue of same ip posting to 100 different blogs?

Christopher

I do use Smart Auto Blogger for posting to WP blogs. It works great with black hole feeds as content - after several hours of coding tweaks to get rid of footprints and gibberish.

I like Pete's programs however they are missing a couple fundamental issues: lack of standard data input files and poor updating/admin setup.

An ideal program takes a csv or text file filled with lines like:

username,password,email,title,content,rss

and then when the program is done you get a saved file with all your details like:

username,password,login,url,rssfeed

Any form that needs to be filled out with copy and paste can also be designed to run from a source text file.

The point I am getting at is some of the blogspot creator programs give you all the details you need to auto post to them and some don't. It takes more time to locate those details, login into email accounts and activate accounts than it's worth.

"BlogNetworking is a free plugin for WordPress to allow networks of blogger to share headlines through a central feed of affiliate sites. To avoid performance problems the feed will be cached locally."

Download the plugin here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blognetworking/

I just thought we (me) could install it on my blogs and then insert the opml file from each feed into each of my blogs and they'd all be interlinked.

I will add anyones blog to mind if they pm and vis versa.

Gil

Sports moderators wanted. Join the sports-blog and share in the revenue generated.
http://sports-blog.com/community/

I am bit puzzled here (btw I am a NEWBIE in blogs sites)...
We should post sometimes a month to our blogs (bloggers, WP blogs or other) via the black hole feed. Till there I follow

You use a program to post new articles to each blog, but...
How will it choose the correct (meaning theme related to site/blog) article for it AND how are you sure it won't use the same article (I know chances are low) ?
How are you sure nobody else will do it when they use same program etc ?

Tasari

Not working for IE 7 ?

Tx

Note added : It maybe seems I need to open IE7 before clicking "start" ! Will keep testing...

Tasari