Setting up Your Blog Farms (I)

Now that you have a blog installed on the root of each of your 100 ‘money’ domains, it’s time to setup your blog farms. We have 24 domains set aside specifically for this purpose.
To start, we’re going to setup 4 blog farms – one on each of the shared hosting accounts you signed up for. Before setting up your domain accounts on your shared hosting accounts, read through this section completely. Pay close attention to the “Advanced Blog Farm Strategies” section. Go setup your accounts after reading this section.

There are MANY ways to setup blog farms. Just realize that linking is going to be key here. A blog farm that is interlinked properly is going to be far more powerful than one that is not interlinked properly. As we progress I’ll explain in detail how to create an effective linking structure. I’ve even included some special videos to better demonstrate how to set things up.

Also, you want your blog farms to be as natural as possible. This means that for the first few weeks, you’re going to be posting real, quality content to them. You’re also going to need to gather some links from quality sources.

Think about what WP Burner does (www.wpburner.com). It basically blogs your links to a network of well-ranked WordPress blogs. Unfortunately, they charge an arm and a leg to do this.

What I’m going to show you now is how to setup your own network of Wordpress blogs that will get indexed and ranked, so that you retain total control. When you combine this with an auto-blogging tool like Swift Blogger you have a well-oiled, automated indexing machine on your hands.

There is no reason to go signup for a service like WP Burner when you replicate the technology yourself ☺.

More on promotion later. Right now, we need to get into actually setting up your blog farms properly.

First of all, what is a blog farm? Basically, it’s a set of blogs that are interlinked to form a blog network.

Below, I’ll explain how to setup a Hexagonal blog farm. Read through this section once without doing anything, then go back and follow the steps.

You’re going to repeat this process on all 4 of blog farms and shared hosting accounts.

The Hexagon Blog Farm – Themed



This is a method for setting up a blog farm that not only lasts, but also works wonders for getting your portal pages indexed and ranked. You can setup WordPress or Blogger blog farms (Blogger blogs hosted on your own server). Both are effective, but I highly recommend focusing the majority of your efforts on building WordPress blog farms as you remain 100% in control of your blogs. Keep in mind that it can take up to a month before your blog farm becomes ‘effective.’ This means that it takes awhile to get your blogs listed and ranked in the search engines. But once this happens, they become very powerful weapons for promoting your pages.

Here are some preliminary tips you should consider before building your blog farms:

Use a unique template. Have your own template designed then use it over and over, or at the very least use a template other than the default WP template. I’ve talked earlier about getting your own WP template created.

Put your picture on your blogs, as well as a short bio. Or, put up a family member’s picture (with their permission). You can even make up a bio and use a fake name…it doesn’t matter. Maybe put some pictures of yourself down the side of the blog doing something you like to do…for instance skiing or flying a kite (whatever you want). This makes the blog look real and it’s something that 99% of the ‘blog farmers’ out there aren’t doing! If you setup 5 unique templates in this manner, you can load them up into WordPressSuperInstaller and install them as many times as you want…automatically.

Important: How to choose a blog farm theme: DMOZ, or the Open Directory Project, is a very important place. They categorize things in a way that the search engines love, and it’s also a great place to find themes for your blog farms. The first step in creating a blog farm is to go to DMOZ and select a topic, such as Sports.

Now, You don’t have to ‘theme’ your blog farms. In fact, all of your blogs could be completely unrelated in terms of content. Your blogs will still probably get indexed and they’ll still be useful tools for promoting your “money” pages. However, themed blog farms are more effective than non-themed blog farms, so I highly recommend going this route.

Why are they more effective? Because you’re going to be interlinking blogs in your blog farm (that’s what creates a network). Sites on related topics that link to each other create more ‘relevancy’ in the search engines than non-related sites linking to each other.

So, your goal here is to create 3 high-quality blog farms that the search engines visit and continue to spider. If humans visited these blogs, they would have a good chance of passing a human inspection. The majority of portal builders out there are putting up ‘crappy’ blogs and still posting rss feeds. We’re not going to do that because we understand that each blog farm is an extremely powerful asset for getting indexed.

Now let’s get into the step-by-step procedure of setting up a blog farm.

You’re going to setup 1 blog farm now, then repeat this process for 3 additional blog farms.

1. Signup for a shared hosting account – we’ve already done that
2. Register domain names – we’ve already registered 24 domains for blog-farming purposes.
3. Go setup 6 domains on shared hosting account #1. Make sure your DNS settings are correct at ResellerClub.com.
4. Use WordPressSuperInstaller or another blog auto-installer of your choice to install a WordPress blog on the root of each domain.
5. Setup 2 subdomains on 5 of the 6 domains and install a blog on each of the subdomains. So, if your blog farm is about Health, setup two Health-related subdomain names, such as:
1. healthinfo.healthcenterblog.info
2. healthtime.healthcenterblog.info
1. It doesn’t really matter what you call your subdomains… just as long as they are related to “health.” At this point, you’ll have a total of 16 blogs installed – 3 blogs on each of your 5 domains, and then one blog on your 6th domain. So, it’s like this for blog farm #1:
1. Domain One: One blog on the root + 2 blogs on 2 subdomains
2. Domain Two: One blog on the root + 2 blogs on 2 subdomains
3. Domain Three: One blog on the root + 2 blogs on 2 subdomains
4. Domain Four: One blog on the root + 2 blogs on 2 subdomains
5. Domain Five: One blog on the root + 2 blogs on 2 subdomains
6. Domain Six: One blog on the root
7. Total blogs for Blog Farm #1 – SIXTEEN
6. Here’s where linking comes into play. On each of your first five domains (the ones with 2 additional subdomains), link to the two subdomain blogs from the sidebar menu, or the footer, of the main blog. If you setup your subdomains you install your blogs, you automate the interlinking process with WordPressSuperInstaller. If not, you’ll have to setup the sidebar links manually. So now, all three blogs on a given domain are interlinked. Again, do this on all five domains.