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Message ID: 7
#7, RE: Your Own Blog Farm - Network
Posted by Kurt on Dec-11-07 at 03:17 PM
In response to message #6
Hi 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.