All professional bloggers have a dream to have a successful blog network so that they can be popular in all kind of niche. And for many bloggers this dream do come true but unluckily for majority bloggers the dream is just a dream because of the ups and downs they face while building a blog network.
Starting a blog network is not an easy task, every blog in a blog network must be popular to make a blog network popular. You will get many hurdles while building and maintaining a blog network and many bloggers quit because of these hurdles. To avoid such situation you need to be positive and remember few factors which are important to build a blog network.
Proper Planning
If you want to make your blog or blog network successful you need to have a proper planning. You need to be clear about your goals and what you want to achieve. Make a plan and checklist of all the task, few of the important plans would be:
- How many blogs you want in your blog network
- Deciding the Niche for all blogs
- Frequency of blog post on all blogs
- Deciding and planning about milestones
- Market research about competitors in blogosphere
These are just few must have plans to make and there are lot more plans keep on adding and changing as soon as you start building a blog network.
Hard and Smart work
After planning it’s better to start implement and get disciplined in work. Make sure you meet your deadlines, find better way to be productive and active in writing articles as well as in social media. Maintaining all the blogs and promoting it is a time consuming task because blogging is not only about writing articles, maintaining blog and promoting it is also important. Thus if you are planning to have a blog network make sure you prepare yourself mentally and physically that you need to work hard.
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Building a Team
If you need to make your blog network successful it will be important that you keep on updating all blogs on daily basis. Thus it would be better if you have a team who can help you in managing your blogs like writing articles, promoting them or handling blogs technically. Having a team helps you to maintain your blog even when you are busy with other things. Make sure you hire writers who can provide you updated and quality articles.
Proper Management:
Preparing a plan or a team might be easy for you but managing your blogs according to your plan and handling team is very important. Keeping the schedules according to your plan for all the blogs and keep on checking the errors or problems in your blogs is very important. Links of all the blogs should work properly, technically all the blogs should be good and without error is really important. Apart from that Keeping your writers motivated and giving proper feedback is the next thing you need to do.
Investment:
This factor depends on individual that how much he want to invest on his blog network but few basic things are always required such as having a reliable web hosting for all your blogs thus to avoid downtimes or poor maintenance. Thus it is important to avoid free webhosting service. Apart from that paying to your team or investing on SEO services or designing your blogs can also increase your investment.
These are few factors which you should keep in mind before starting your blog network. If you are aware of more important tips to start a blog network do share with us. We would love to know your views.
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Very interesting article. I would probably never start a blog network myself, but I would be interested in joining one and to contribute.
Glad you like the article Jens, hope you get good network to join soon.
no doubt if you are interested in starting your own blog network, you have to to do some really hard work very smartly….
and a lot depends that team members are dedicated
Agree with you Tushar, Blogging is more of smart work rather than hard work.
Interesting Ideas. I am thinking of a creating a blog network of my own, but I recognized it clearly, that I can’t do it along. Hope I will get my team members soon. Thanks for providing these useful tips.
Yeah Satish, its better to have someone with you who can take care of your blog network when you are busy. Wish you luck for blog network.
Thanks for providing the nice information. I will try to fix my missing part.
Glad you found information useful Vijay.
Well said about team building…..helpful article for pro blogger
Thanks for comment Poonam, hope others find it useful
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I agree, its not only blogging it is very thing what you want do and you require proper planing hard and smart work and a dedicated team handling their own set of jobs.
Right Imran, because of lack of planning and smart work many bloggers fail to get successful and thus finally quit.
Great points! I like your heading format, very creative and effective. We started our blogging club just to primarily use peer pressure to get a critical mass of posts going. It is not as sophisticated as your network but the social aspects help to sift in some education along the way. We are all learning about the tools, what is interesting content and how to make the most of social media.
Hey chief, I guess in blogging we all are learning and I would love to know more about tools, social media about which you are gaining knowledge. Do share your views and experience with us.
I have plans but i am finding very difficulty in executing things.
1) Setting up new blog
2) Content
3) Backlinks
4) Waiting for search engine traffic to come.
It is impossible for person who do job and maintain blog network. First 6 month for every blog needs lot of articles promotion and work behind. Then you have to repeat this process again and again. Hence successful team building or investment is necessary.
Rahul if you are facing problems in above points then I would suggest you to read few related articles on ShoutMeLoud because we always write articles after experience thus I am sure you will get few working tips. Working in a team is always good.
Hi Whiztechy
Great post and building network is must.This tips really works.Planning and smart work really needs some bloggers who can think and try new
Thanks For Sharing
-Abhishek
Glad you like the post Abhishek.
Well starting a blog network is easy. Perhaps, maintaining it is where the difficult part lies. Thanks for this post Ruchi. Currently, I don’t have any plans for blog networks. Maybe me in the coming years that may change
hey gr8 points…. so the key behind SML network revealed by Ruchi
Planning and Management is the key factors that will lead you to success. Saying “No” to every thing is the big hurdle so always be positive and thing will happen they you want.
Thanks for sharing this awesome article. i am new to blogging platform i am getting some invitation from other blogger to get merged with them and to start a blog network were all the team members can work on one blog. so these are the things i should keep in mind befor starting a blog network thanks for sharing this article it really helps me thank you.
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Bharath
you must also have a well established blog ,that help you a lot..
Proper Management and the frequency of post matters alot.
Nice Post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Top post, thoroughly enjoyed reading thanks for sharing. Its also important that people understant if your concentration is on 5 different blogs instead on one then you’re going to be disheartened by slow progress you can only do so much.
Not an easy task…. thanks for share….
I agree must know about all thing at staring point.
Image logo also good.Thanks for sharing
I think its sense before starting anything either its blog or your daily stuff you need a proper planning without it you might face failure. I remember one of my friend started blogging a while ago but suddenly after a month or so from its starts he quite, why? Just because he have no planning, only reason he had started blogging was me.
hi very useful website
proper planning is essential , i would add looking for more , when you start doing this kind of things, even if you believe you’re very good at it and you don’t need to search about it ,you’re wrong , i believe in looking for experiences and knowing more about it , cause that helps a lot !! thank You
Excellent article harsh, i have started my own website similar to suite101 and ezine articles. Hope i will succeed from that venture. I have certain goals to be reached at the end of each year.