How to Build a Blog Farm
Building blog farm’s are a relatively new technique that can gurantee your SEO success. Actually, the blog farm concept has been around for a few years already, however it was not called a blog farm back then and today it’s much more sophisticated. Ever since people recognized the power of SERPs, they realized the value of having quality back links. And instead of depending on someone else to embed a link, SEO gurus felt it would make more sense to host a site by themselves, and primarily the job was to ensure traffic flowing into the main site.
For instance, if there is a website dealing with high quality gadgets, along with the rest of the SEO promotional techniques, the owner chose to create a group of blogs or get someone in his team to do that. These blogs have good and interesting content – all related to the nic
he being promoted on the main website, and whenever a related keyword came by in the content, it linked back to the main website. These links are doubly valuable –
- They drive traffic that is already interested in the genre
- They add to the credibility of the main website as the link is considered to be on a third party site.
Enough of introductions, here is how you can build a blog farm with ease, and sustain the interest generated by it.
- Choose a quality blog provider, so your links will be valued higher. We recommend WordPress, but if you are more comfortable with Blogger, you can use that as well. Don’t go beyond them.
- If you are serious about building quality links, don’t use automatic content generators. Even if it is more difficult to find good content writers, find them, and get them to constantly create good content. Remember, a blog farm is not for the short term. The longer your blogs are maintained, the better rankings they get, and the better your purpose is served.
- Cross linking these blogs is of utmost importance, as it will increase the page ranks of these blogs. A link from a blog of a higher page rank is much more valuable than one of a fresh blog.
- Don’t just maintain a blog farm to boost your original site. Make them into authorities on the subject so reader interest is maintained. Don’t link only to your main site. Use reference sites like Wikipedia wisely and build up the blogs’ credibility. These will augment well in the long run.
The best part of blog farms is that they are quite economical to maintain. While most of the blogs can be hosted free, getting a domain name to be registered and hosted will cost you a small sum each year. But the traffic you get from these blogs is more than worth the investment. If you have an SEO consultant, ask him about the best way to optimize these blogs into your promotion strategy.
This is both informative, and kind of funny at the same time… Informative because it just adds proof to the Funny fact that I have been doing this, not knowing it had a name, for some time now…
Not only for my own site, but in order to aid my web design clients, I add a few blog entries relevant to their topic of site… Just to help the cause..
The wierd thing about back links is that they are really hard to honestly come by… I am sure google doesn’t mind people “abusing” the blogger system, as it adds to their pockets with every bit of advertising…
But thanks for giving me the name blog farm ha!