Is Starting a Blog Worth It?

Niche sites on wordpress are all the rage. They are easy to build, and can easily make you good money, whether from adsense or an affiliate product. The key to the success of these sites is building links back to them. Starting a blog to support your main sites is a great way to build links.

You will probably look for a free blog platform when starting a blog to support your main site. There are a couple well known sites for this, such as blogger.com and wordpress.com, however, there are actually hundreds of this type of site online. It is a wise idea to spread out your network over a bunch of different platforms instead of keeping all of your support blogs in one place.

Most beginners take the easy way and build all their support blogs on one network. This is a huge mistake, especially if you haven’t read the terms of service for each platform. This may be easy to keep organized and easy to find, but it can be a huge mistake. Free blog platforms are easy to set up on, but they also own your content. They have the power to delete not only one blog, but your entire account. If you have all of your support blogs on one platform and they decide to delete your account you have nothing to show for your hard work. It’s much better to spread things out over a bunch of sites than to risk everything on one.

So what do you write about when starting a blog for supporting another site? The exact same topic, same keywords? It’s best to do your support blogs about a wider niche, so you can include your keywords for your current site, but also so you can include keywords about other sites you may do in the future as well as other sites you like you might want to link to.

When starting a blog to support your main site make sure you always use your keywords to link back to your main site. You never want people clicking on the words “click here” or something like that. Using the teach your golden retriever to stay you would want those exact words to be the anchor text for your link. They would be the words underlined in blue that people would actually click on to go to your main site. This is the only way a support blog will actually support your main site, if you are using keyword anchor text in your posts. If you are doing anything else you are wasting your time.

Creating a support network for your niche sites is a great way to help them improve their search engine rankings. Starting a blog on a free platform is one of the easiest ways to get your support network started. It can seem overwhelming, but remember as you build this network it will be available to you to use on future sites as well.

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