Thanks for read this, I will feel better….

Excellent job done! and very informative post…I’ll be appreciated if you could keep up your awesome work on sharing the secrets of blogging!

Thks

Your blog is awesome. My favourite so far among all I have discovered..

Thnk .

Vineet Nair
http://internetbusinessjunkie.blogspot.com

b5media didn’t want to take the heat of a religious category, so we’re trying to come up with a model that will give people latitude and still create boundaries of good behavior.

It’s been tough. This post couldn’t have been more timely.

I was wondering if you’d seen Blue Hat SEO’s SEO empire posts? They’re quite related, especially the part about having systems in place.

On a related note, please do check your email as I have a business proposition regarding a system for increasing revenue across the network.

Regards,
Gabriel Goldenberg

That was extensive.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers,
Carlo

Although, big blogs are required in building successful networks, I think combining small blogs together can also help in building a successful network, isn’t it ?

Also, re: Marco’s comment……I took your post as being your experience with running a blog network, because you do have experience in it. I don’t think that discounts David’s original post or his experience, because his experience is his own, just like yours is.

If you simply reposted the same thoughts that David had, then that would be a problem. So, I appreciate both sides of the story re: starting up a blog network, since I don’t have any experience in that yet!

Just starting a new network so perfect timing on your post.

Perhaps you could expand a little on the statistics side of things? I agree with your points, but would love to know what packages you use, or combination of packages?

And a post that would be REALLY helpful is a guide to creating a “media pack” or how to sell sponsorship on your blog. I know there is the “how to get sponsors” post, but I mean a deeper look at the construction of a pack or document, what information to include, how to pitch it, and most importantly, what is the first move you make when trying to get a sponsors attention / communication chanels open?

Keep up the good work and I will ping you a mail when our new network goes live. :)

TTFN,
Dave
http://www.thoseshows.com

Vince – on the blog network consulting – we probably won’t quite go that direction (so much work in just running our own) but we do work closely with a number of other networks and even offer a service or two to them from time to time :-)

JoLynn – these days we pay our bloggers a flat monthly fee (that goes up over time as they’ve been with us for longer) then a traffic bonus. In the early days it was based more on a revenue share basis – but we found that that wasn’t really scalable for us and that our bloggers wanted something more predictable (ie a minimum income per month).

Frederick – books will probably come but this wasn’t really written with that in mind.

Marco – you’re right, this post didn’t start out as being anything like it ended up being. I hope it didn’t come off as taking over the conversation – I did link to David’s prominently and he did leave a comment above which doesn’t indicate he was put off by my post.

One thing I will respond to your comment with though is that I feel I added something different to the conversation than what David said. I think if you read my post carefully you’ll find that my advice differs in numerous places to what he says. I didn’t take the approach of pointing this out because I didn’t want people to think I was disagreeing with David (because these things are different in different situations) but I don’t think this was simply a rehash of what he’d written. I only commented on his points that I thought I could add something to the conversation on. I actually left out numerous points that he covered which I hope drove people to read more of his post.

I do take your point on board – but I guess in my mind at least this is what blogging is about. One person writes something from their own experience/opinion and then others take it and add their own from their own experience. That’s blogging and hopefully through it we all learn something important on the topic.

Travis – on domains – I prefer .com simply because I think it makes it easier for readers. Most automatically will go to a ‘name’.com. Obviously you can still be successful with another extension – but it’s easier if you can get the .com. I’ve done both – but these days wouldn’t go with anything but a .com unless there were extreme circumstances or unless i was targeting a specific market.

But giving a thorough insight and all of the same information that David gave, through different words, is like taking over the conversation. And from the comments above, it’s easy to see that most people are giving you credit for the ideas that weren’t originally yours (though I’m not saying they belong exclusively to the author of the original article).

I’m not saying you didn’t refer David properly, or that you didn’t link back to him, but the way you wrote the article leaves the readers with little or no interest to bother checking the original, since you cover basically everything that he did, and add a few things of your own.

From one of your last paragraphs which states: “Wow – that turned out to be quite the epic post!” – I can understand that perhaps the article turned out bigger than you expected it to. Still, in my opinion a follow up shouldn’t provide all, or most, of the information the original did.

I hope you consider this comment and consider not making other follow-ups similar to this in the future.

Sincerely,

Marco Jardim