Setting up Your Blog Farms (II)

More on Interlinking Your Blogs

Internal Linking

In step 6 above, you linked to your subdomains from each of your 5 main domains. So now, 5 of your domains are now linked internally. Again, leave your 6th domain alone. It should still only have 1 blog on the root and no subdomains.

Interlinking Your Blogs to Create a Blog Farm

At this point, you’ll have Domains One through Five, as well as a sixth domain with no subdomains.

Now, you’re going to link the homepages of each of your main blogs together:


1.    From the homepage of domain 6, link to the main blog on domain 1.
2.    Link from the main blog on domain 1 to main blog on domain 2.
3.    Link from the main blog on domain 2 to the main blog on domain 3.
4.    Link from the main blog on domain 3 to the main blog on domain 4.
5.    Link from the main blog on domain 4 to the main blog 5.
6.    Link from the main blog on domain 5 to the blog on domain six.

So, in effect, you’ve formed a circle of blogs, all linked together.

Now, from an EXTERNAL domain (not part of the blog farm), link into Domain Six. You can do this from a White Hat site you already own, or purchase a cheap PR4 or PR 5 link from a link brokerage. The best link brokerage is…

 Text-link-ads.com

You can also find links on eBay.

Check out prices before dismissing this idea. There are some great deals out there. It’s great to get 2 to 3 good links pointing into Domain 6. The more the better – whatever your budget allows. Also, you want to gather links from sites that are on the same theme as your blog farm. If you have a blog farm about health, then you want to purchase links from health related sites.

One question I anticipate getting is “why not add subdomains to domain 6?” The reason is that you want the spiders to come to domain 6 and do as little snooping around as possible before moving onto domain 1, then 2, then 3, etc.

At this point, your mini blog-network will be completely interlinked. The spiders will arrive at Domain 6 (by following the inbound link(s)) and proceed to work their way around your blog network.

Repeat the exact process above to create two additional blog farms on your other two shared hosting accounts.

Review the video referenced at the top of this section if you’re confused about this.

The next step is loading up some content into an auto-blogging tool so you can start posting to your blog farms. While your blog-farm comes to life and starts getting indexed, you’re going to start building actual pages on your money domains.

We’ll get into these steps in a second, but first, I want to give you one final tip for growing your blog farms:

Add More Subdomains:


Once your 3 blog farms start getting indexed, go back and add more and more subdomains. You don’t have to do this now – but perhaps a few weeks from now.

If you recall, you built 2 subdomains on 5 of the 6 domains in each of your blog farms. Now, you’re going to go back and start adding MORE subdomains to each of those 5 domains.

Remember, the more blogs you have out there the better. You can probably fit 50 to 150 blogs on one shared hosting account, depending on how much space you have.

So, now that your blog farms are setup, go back and add 25 subdomains to each shared hosting account. Then, use WordPressSuperInstaller to install a blog on each of these subdomains.

So, for blog farm one, go back and add 5 subdomains to each of your 5 domains…leaving the 6th one alone.

Once you go back and add 25 subdomains (with blogs) to each blog farm, you’re going to end up with a total of 198 blogs!

If you don’t want to create these subdomains by hand in cPanel, you can always use  DomainToaster.

If you take the steps outlined above, you are going to have a VERY powerful indexing network setup and ready to roll. Again, follow the bulleted tips above

– get a unique template, post pictures, etc.

The important thing after setting up your first 3 blog networks is to monitor your bandwidth and disk space usage. Remember that your disk space is going to be reduced as your blogs grow – just something to keep in mind.

Keeping Track of Your Blogs

It’s a good idea to keep track of your blogs in an Excel spreadsheet. A sample is shown below.

Main Domain    Theme         Type         Blog    Host    Subs #      Swift Blogger
                                               Farm                               Install
                                               ID         
domain1.com    Health          Regular    1          RZ       25            Sbdomain.com/sb
domain2.com    Health          Regular    1          RZ       25            Sbdomain.com/sb
domain3.com    Health          Regular    1          RZ       25            Sbdomain.com/sb
domain4.com    Health          Regular    1          RZ       25            Sbdomain.com/sb
domain5.com    Health          Regular    1          RZ       25            Sbdomain.com/sb
domain6.com    Health          Main        1          RZ         0            Sbdomain.com/sb

Column1: The domain of a blog
Column2: The ‘theme’ of the blog farm. Again, it’s not mandatory that you theme your blog farms,    but I recommend it.
Column3: The blog type. “Main” refers to a blog that has NO subdomains (the same thing at blog 6 in the above blog farm instructions).
Column4: I give every blog farm I create an ID# for keep track of which blogs belong to which blog farms.
Column5: The name of the host…in this case Reseller Zoom
Column6: The number of subdomain blogs on the domain
Column7: The location of the Swift Blogger install where I have uploaded the blog. If I have uploaded the blog to more than one SB install, then I would list additional installs in columns 7, 8 and so on.

Note: You won’t be able to fill in Column 7 until we go through setting up your auto-blogger in a later section.


Advanced Blog Farm Strategies

What I’m about to explain is not MANDATORY, but it is a way to reduce the likelihood that your blog farm will be ‘footprinted’ by the search engines. You can decide for yourself if you want to do this. I would recommend doing it this way. However, I wanted to explain the easy way first (above) to get the basics down and avoid any confusion.

If you understand the process above for creating a blog farm, then you’ll understand what I’m about to describe.

Essentially, this involves interlinking blogs from different hosting accounts, rather than interlinking all of the blogs on one hosting account. Again, this reduces footprinting.

This is easy to do. Just follow the instructions below.

Let’s say you want to setup 1 blog farm across your 3 of your 4 different shared hosting accounts. Here’s an easy way to do it (note, you can repeat this for all 3 blog farms):

Instead of setting up all 6 domains for your blog farm on 1 hosting account, setup 2 domains on each of your 3 hosting accounts. So, if you have 6 domains on Health, setup 2 Health domains no hosting account one, 2 Health domains on hosting account 2, and 2 sports domains on hosting account 3.

Now, follow all of the steps above to create your blog farm as far as installing your blogs and interlinking them.

The end result will be that you now have blogs interlinked across different IP addresses and blocks.

If you do this, here is an example of how your spreadsheet might look. You’ll notice that the only thing that has changed is Column 5 – the Hosting column. Now, you have multiple hosts per blog farm ID: You’ll notice that now I have RZ – IP 1 and RZ IP – 2. If you recall earlier, I noted that if you’re going to open up two shared accounts with the same hosting company, you should ask for different IP’s. So, RZ – IP1 represents the first Reseller Zoom account I opened. RZ – 2 represents the second one. HG stands for “HostGator.”

Main Domain    Theme    Type        Blog      Host             Sub          Swift Blogger
                                          Farm                      s #              Install
                                          ID         
domain1.com     Health     Regular    1          RZ – IP 1     25           Sbdomain.com/sb
domain2.com     Health     Regular    1          RZ - IP 1      25           Sbdomain.com/sb
domain3.com     Health     Regular    1          RZ – IP 2     25           Sbdomain.com/sb
domain4.com     Health     Regular    1          RZ - IP 2      25           Sbdomain.com/sb
domain5.com     Health     Regular    1          HG               25           Sbdomain.com/sb
domain6.com     Health         Main    1          HG                 0           Sbdomain.com/sb

That’s it for blog farms.

Now, you need to decide which type of blog farm you want to setup. Do you want to spread the blogs in a blog farm over multiple accounts or setup 1 blog farm per 1 hosting account?

Once you decide, go ahead and setup your domain accounts in your hosting control panels, then proceed to build your blog farms.

Remaining steps: From here, we just need to install your auto-blogging tool, do keyword research, and build and promote your pages.