Lately I’m administering quite a few blogs to promote my own website, most of the blogs I am working on are wordpress based, as far as we know that WordPress is ideal for almost all kinds of blogging needs, people even use it as CMS, with the fact that its licensed under GPL make the WordPress the fastest growing blogging platform ever.
After a while I believed that build my own blogs will be more beneficial, because afterwards I can use the already built blogs to promote whatever I want, this is not something new, all kinds of blog networks are out there for the exact purpose, but those are not my own sites and I don’t have control, not to mention I can’t just post to them, probably I will have to pay quite dearly to have my sites promoted.
Its a tedious job to maintain more than a few blogs, if you’re not using your blogs as spamming device, the real content writing is time and money consuming, remember real value is always difficult to achieve. I’ve seen quite a few real world examples, such as this one, Heavy Duty Chains and Binders, it’s name is pretty cute, and it has a lot of interesting posts, though its not a theme focused blog, there are all kinds of posts on the site. One more example, E Track Tie Down System, this blog is themed, all posts are following the same theme, quite a few keywords rank well for this site. Its easy to show more similar sites, but I believe you get the idea. One more important point, in your little net you should have some loose blogs, let them get some content occasionally, such as this blog, Truck Winch and Winch Straps, this will make a blog network more like naturally built blog groups.
After you successfully build a few blogs, you can try to build a few more, use the old ones to promote the new ones, get your own little blog network going is not that too difficult. This is just an idea, to build a successful network will be much more complicated, there’s one thing you do have to keep in your mind is that don’t ruin your hard work just because you want to cut a few corners.