How many blogs is too many?

by christine2

Posted: 14 years ago 17 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

OK, so I have spent a few days now playing with LOTS of automation programs and writing some of my own (I'm a programmer, remember?), and I am pretty sure I can build 50 autoblogs a day. I have built about 75 in the last three days, by doing a bit at a time.

Now my question is this.

I currently have these all on the one Blogger account (so they are all www dot something dot blogspot dot com). Since this is all meant to be a money-making enterprise, as well as a way of spreading information on lots of topics, I don 't particularly want to fork out $10 a year for each domain name. Nor do I want to have to upgrade my web hosting to cope with lots and lots of databases, which I would have to if I used Wordpress even under the one domain name (but that is my fall-back plan if I need it).

So my question is, how many blogs can you have under Blogger before they start getting upset and deleting them? I read one advisor who said you should have only about 5 blogs under each Blogger account. Has anyone here had any experience with Blogger deleting blogs?

Also, if your blog is deleted, is the blog URL made available again? That is, if a blog was deleted, could I use that same blog URL in creating a new blog under a new Blogger account? The reason I would like to do this is because it would mean my SEO efforts would not have been wasted.

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Christine.

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fxprofitmountain 14 years ago

I found this link, because I am curious also.

Blogger limited number of blogs per account | Personal | ThemeLib

Looks like 100 is the limit, as of 2008......
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Barry Unruh 14 years ago

Hi Christine,

I think the best way to answer your question is to point you to these two threads:

Build A Blog Empire for Free - Part 1

Build A Blog Empire For Free - Part 2

John (Zeus66) covers your questions in some great detail. The questions and answers in the threads cover everything you will want to know.

Barry
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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by christine2

So my question is, how many blogs can you have under Blogger before they start getting upset and deleting them?

That's not the issue. The issue is that if you receive a certain number of complaints over a short enough period of time, the entire Blogger account can be disabled or deleted.

Now, no matter what number you plug in - if you have X number of blogs on your account, and you get enough complaints to get that account disabled even temporarily, you just lost the revenue from X blogs.

It's generally a good idea to keep X small. And since you can open all the Google accounts you want, it makes a lot of sense to spread things around... so long as Google doesn't get antsy about the number of accounts you have. In general, open only one or two Google accounts a day, and you can have quite a few of them. It's the spammy activity of opening thirty of them all at once that Google frowns upon.

John Schwartz and I worked together on Zombie Blogging, which goes somewhat beyond the two threads just mentioned above... but the critical parts are, indeed, in the threads. Go through those, and if you still have questions, feel free to email or PM me.
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Tommy Perez

14 years ago

How many blogs is too many?

Isn't that like the same thing as asking how many girlfriends is too many!

I guess...it gets too many when you can't manage all of them at once.

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christine2

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Tommy Perez

How many blogs is too many?

Isn't that like the same thing as asking how many girlfriends is too many!

I guess...it gets too many when you can't manage all of them at once.

Lol Tommy. Even one girlfriend would be far too many for me - I am a married woman!

Christine.

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christine2

14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.

What I have worked out how to do is this. In the morning, I start up the first program, which asks me "What would you like to build blogs about today?". So I type in a couple of words (let's use "Weight Loss" as the classic example).

Then it takes about half an hour of me sitting on the computer while it creates between 40 and 70 blogs - just the raw shell of each. The reason I have to be there is because Blogger has that annoying Captcha thing built in, so I have to be there. Then I create a new email address and a Twitter account, and add to a Twitter tools program. (Now I will add a new step to create a new Blogger account for each group of web sites first, I think).

Then I kick off the second program, and I go out in to the garden or do housework or whatever. Then over the next few hours, it modifies each blog to put in the Adsense (etc) code, alter the html at the start to add keywords, ducks over to a web site submission tool and submits each blog to about 70 search engines, pops into an autoblog tool and starts downloading and uploading about 50 posts per blog, then it kicks off the follow thingy on the Twitter tool and starts tweeting.

So with about 40 minutes' work each morning I get a ton of blogs each day. I am yet to work out what revenue I am getting from this, but the Adsense numbers are going up slowly.

Is this pretty much what all you internet marketing bloggers are doing? Or is this something special?

Christine.

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by christine2

Is this pretty much what all you internet marketing bloggers are doing? Or is this something special?

In general, I think this is the sort of thing where if Google caught you doing it, all your blogs would disappear and so would your AdSense account.

And once your AdSense account is gone, it's gone for good.

But that's not the end of the world; there are other things you can do to get ad revenue from a blog, and Google doesn't tend to hold a grudge about opening new GMail and Blogger accounts after prior accounts were closed or disabled.

If you were to ask MY personal opinion, I'd wave my arms and make scary noises and tell you to stop it.

However, if you were to ask others - and some of them are very influential and experienced, indeed - they'd give you a round of applause and say "you go girl!"

And to be perfectly honest, I think the jury's still very much out on who's more correct on this score. Plenty of people are making plenty of money doing this sort of thing, and plenty of other people are doing well doing something else.

I think the best advice for you would be to stop and think what would happen if you lost all your blogs and your AdSense account, and come up with some plan to protect yourself just in case. Eggs, basket, you know.

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christine2

14 years ago

Fair enough. But it seems strange to me that Google would be upset about that.

After all, what I am providing is a platform (OK, a lot of platforms) where information and advertisements and customers all come together. If there were no sites like this, there would not be places for the Adsense ads to appear, apart from on the Google search engine sites.

Or am I being naive?

Christine.

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by christine2

Fair enough. But it seems strange to me that Google would be upset about that.

Google's general terms of service prohibit the use of automation tools:

5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.

They don't mind the kind of blogs you're making at all, and they probably don't even mind the number you're creating - neither of these is prohibited or discouraged.

Indeed, it's precisely this kind of thing that Zombie Blogging recommends, excepting that we recommend 10-20 PLR articles rather than 50 autoblogged articles - and we recommend you create them manually, which means 40 minutes of work gets you about 6-8 blogs a day instead of 70.

Google would basically expect the level of content you're producing to be the result of an 8 hour workday, not a 40 minute script run.

However, this begs the question: why is it bad for this to be done quickly? The end result is the same - 70 blogs with auto-content and an AdSense block. Why should Google have a problem with that?

I really don't have a good answer to this question. The best answer I have is "the terms of service say not to do it," but some people don't think that's good enough. And honestly, I understand where they're coming from.

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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Tommy Perez

Isn't that like the same thing as asking how many girlfriends is too many!

Five.

That's experience talking.
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- christine2 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CDarklock
  
  Five.
  
  That's experience talking.
  
  FIVE?? At one time?? You dog! lol
  
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imguru 14 years ago

You're building your auto blog empire on blogger? Wouldn't it be wiser to use your own hosting for this?
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DogScout 14 years ago

Seems to me, if you bought hosting somewhere that gave you unlimited bandwidth, databases, subdomains and domains, (Hostgater at $8/mo?) and wrote a script that made sub domains; you could buy nonsense domains (purplealmond.com) and put a blog at each subdomain. (acne.purplealmond.com, weightloss.purplealmond.com, etc). Then no one could delete your blogs, unless they used too much CPU on the server while being set up.

Then, you'd probably make more selling the script, anyway. Lol.

Just a thought
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Suzy 29 14 years ago

I mean hostgator are great because the hosting will be very cheap. I suggest monitoring the blogs over a period of time as you cant have too many. The key is seeing what blogs are getting the most traffic and going from there.

Suzy
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~kev~ 14 years ago

How many is too many - 1. If the blog is a well maintained blog, one is all you need.

Go take a look at Foxnews blogs, Anderson Cooper has 1 blog - Anderson Cooper 360.

If your updating your site like you should be, your not going to have time or resources to keep more then 1 blog updated.

If your using automated blog scripts to update your site, your creating a spam site. Real blogs are updated by real people.
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seobro 14 years ago

I am having trouble with my one hundred blogs as it take a lot of time to maintain em. However, they help provide a boost to any new products and services. Also, getting back links for them is a chore now. Wonder sometimes if it is worth it to become a content factory and perhaps things were better under the old PPC model I was using.
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- ScottTrimble 14 years ago
  
  1. I have a little different setup on Blogger. I thought they would close one's account if there were too many complaints on one of the blogs within the account. So I only have 2 or 3 blogs per account. Total number of blogs is around 30, spread over 12 accounts.
  
  I know about their Tos not allowing autoblogs. I'm using WordsPay as it works very well with Blogger, I set it up so it'll post just once a day to each blog. BUT, I'm also manually logging in and posting one acticle per week. So, automation posts affiliate offers, I'm posting some original content.
  
  By doing that and using bookmarking tools I'm getting good traffic to my blogs which leads to sales, sometimes great sales.
  
  2. If what you wanted was to post articles, rss feeds ect with autoblogging plugins, I don't do that on Blogger. I'm using own hosted Wordpress blogs and wordpress.com blogs to do that. In this case, I'm also posting one more-or-less unique article per week per blog. Also posting youtube videos on such blogs, articles from article directories, content from RSS and Yahoo Answers, and for all that I'm using Multipress Lite, which is free. As for affiliate offers, I post em up with the same WordsPay which also has a free version.
  
  As for affiliate programs, I mostly use Amazon but also a few others. I'm always using long tail keywords and so far so good, they're working.
  
  Please note, I never had a problem with Blogger. Hope this helps.
  
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