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[SteveJ]

I don't know where to post this question so I'm putting it here.

What do you know about Multi-Blogging Systems? I know there are a few on the market, but have concerns...

Might we get penalized for using one of these systems?

Anyone know of potential security issues with these systems? Do people ever try to hack blogs and change content?

Is there a search engine penalty for setting up a blog and having it sit for months before actually posting to it - when the rest of the site has Adsense and has been spidered?

Is there an easy way to back up a multi-blog site?

I'm tempted to try the package at http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/, but am kinda green in the area as I've been putting off blogging. They point out some higher levels of security issues, but I don't know if that's more of a Geek or coder perception of a potential problem, or whether it's actually a big deal.

I'm asking because there's a guy selling a similar program (wpmassinstaller) and it seems there are free versions that might do just as well.

If the standard logic of not creating too much too quickly applies pretty much in all cases, this seems like a bad idea overall.

I just thought it might save some time (if the search engines don't spank me for doing it) since I have about 100 domains I've been paying for for years and have finally decided to do something with them.

[rento]

try this free product
http://blogologic.com/index_2.html

[manoske]

We do a core blog on our mainsite TimeshareValues.com Blog
This blog is in blogger, with all files sitting on our server; backup is done from our site. It's all free as well.

We feed the blog to our other sites via an RSS Reader TimeshareCalendar.com and Music4Travel.com.

This works when the sites are similar in content, but our next several sites will be on other topics - and will have their own blog/article section.

I believe, and I think it is the core of Charles' program: walk before you run. It's working for us!

BTW: This was't really meant to be too much of a plug for each site; promise!
Good luck.

[SEMAdvantage]

I'd have to agree with Manoske - walk before you run. Blogger.com accounts are fairly straight forward to set up and you can copy your templates to new blogs relatively easy.

If you're making splogs - the wpmassinstaller is probably for you (or something like Viralinstigator). But there's no sound business model with those tools. As soon as you stop making sites, you'll see your revenue start dropping.

Blogs offer that "ping" that call the spiders to come read your new content. But your blog still should have real content (not just scraped stuff). The blog can make the content management easy, once you get the blog set up.

That's the hassle with WordPress blogs, they take time to configure to be SEO friendly. And the you have to do it over again for each subdomain. There is a product WP Cloner that can facilitate that, but you'll still have to have the content.

http://lyceum.ibiblio.org might be an option for you - but I've never tried it.

I'd be lying if I said I've never used RSS2Blog or blogandping - but I'd grown weary of constantly having to put up the next site after the last one gets deindexed by Google (but not by Yahoo! and MSN). That's what attracts me to this forum and "The Plan" - Charles is talking about some strategies and methods I don't read from anyone else (and I'm on plenty of SEO newsletter lists).

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