1,000+ Centrally Managed SEO Optimized Blogs
 

Each post will contain original content. On average 100-150 words per post. Nothing will be scraped. Obviously, I will have several people writing for this full time.

CSS templates for the blogs.

SEO optimization similar to the All in One SEO Pack plugin for Word Press.

Is there any out-of-box solution to manage this many blogs from a central location?

As far as posting goes you can use Livewriter. You can access all your blogs with one program and post to them pretty quickly.

As for links and all of things there are some things out there like blog organizer but I have never used it so I can't say if it is any good or not.

I will check out LiveWriter thanks. Hadn't heard of it before.

Not sure, but I get the impression WordPressDirect is supposed to do that if you use cPanel.

Anyone have firsthand experience with WordPressDirect?

manage as in upgrade/install or manage as in do posts from one central location.

Posting from central location aswell as other things = blogs optimizer

if you really want to manage 1000+ blogs with stats, adverticing and content (and want to save time doing it) then you should get a customcoded application

The money you will save, and the level of control you will get, is what will make it profitable


Talk to http://www.sitecore.net/en/Contact.aspx?nav=t
They can give you refferences

You do realize that the O in SEO stands for Optimization right?

Ideally one central location where we can add new sites/blogs, manage writer accounts, track internal metrics (e.g. writer post count, writer popularity, etc.), and make posts though I think that will obviously require a custom solution.

Another idea is to maybe use Word Press for everything. Have one of our techs "manually" setup each wordpress blog and install a custom plugin that will let our central server push posts to that specific wordpress blog. Then we could host the blogs with a variety of hosts...

I will take a look. Thanks.

Yeah, I think this will need to be customized, but I want to get an idea what is out there before I make a final decision. We'll take a look at sitecore. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yeah, sorry. Typo.

Blogs Organizer

I'm only running about 60 blogs but running 1,000+ wouldn't be an issue (although I see no reason to EVER have that many).

I have something similar, but I don't think I'd sell it. I don't want to create competition for my self.

Nice to see that there are still people who understand the "Don?t educate your competition" part of running a successful business

No doubt. :thumbsup

I take it to the other extreme. Whenever I get the chance I mislead newbies and veterans alike. Anyone who ICQs or emails me about what I am doing gets a line of bullshit. If I can steer them in the wrong direction, I do.

So I shouldn't consider Blogs Organizer? :1orglaugh

It won't do the work for you and I get 30% of the price if you buy it. I never give any info away. There's gotta be something in it for me.:winkwink:

I wont go as far as telling them bullshit. I usually just tell them straight up that if they want my advice, they need to pay me.

Giving away your knowledge for free, is the same as saying your skills are not worth money. If that is how you feel about yourself, you are not in a position to give advice to anyone in the first place.

I know it's an asshole thing to do but after years of idiots contacting me with the attitude that I somehow owe them some information on how I operate I got a little crazy. :1orglaugh

The fun thing about blogs is that you can give away all the secrets, nobody ever actually takes the free advice anyway, it sounds too much like work.

Finally someone who actually is calling a spade a shovel around here... :thumbsup

This is 99% true :)

I use a modified Wordpress MU solution!

sounds like a cool project!

Blogs Automater
 

Like suggested before you could use Blogs Organizer for your task but in my opinion Blogs Automater is better, you can sort your blogs via campains and so on and just have a better overview in my opinion...

I went through all the tutorials and this script sounds great, but unfortunately it doesn't support multiple users. If there was a way to add users and limit access rights (e.g. limit them to accessing specific blogs and only give them the ability to post.) you would already have made your affiliate commission :)

I use paid writers for some of my blogs organizer blogs. I set up a private wordpress installation and give the writers access to that. Then I use blogs organizer to pull the RSS feed from my private wordpress install and post to the appropriate blogs. It's a hack but it works well.

Ah, man I'm going back to sleep. This thread caught my interest but couldn't keep it...

Remove Blogs and insert any other word there, you can spoon feed people and give them the keys to the castle and they still wont do anything because its too much work.

We custom coded a system exactly like your looking for that will handle and post content to both our websites and blog networks (in the appropriate places) from a single interface. We give our ghostwriters a login and they get all the article info and keyword lists for each article thats needed to be written and they just insert the article into it and it posts it to the appropriate blog or website in the proper silo then automatically interlinks it with the other articles on the site.

Thats going to be a lot to deal with.

They will be a mixture of Adult and Non-Adult niches and I figure it will take at least 6 to 9 months to scale up past 1,000. I'm not interested in setting the bar at < 100 blogs because bringing in, potentially, $3k to $5k a month just isn't worth my time.

I understand your point, but I do like helping those that are starting out and could not possibly afford to pay me what my time is worth. Unfortunately they seldom get off their ass and actually do something.

I may go this route and also use some custom scripts using xmlrpc. Still researching.

Yeah, should be fun :thumbsup

I've gone through the video tutorials for both projects. They seem like great scripts. It was pretty funny how the guy doing the demos accidentally named his first campaign "My Fist Campaign" :1orglaugh

Interesting idea. Thanks for the tip.

Sounds like a great solution. I assume it's not for sale :)

At first yes, but then I will have employees manage the monotonous parts.