Originally Posted by kane

In all honesty, here is how you can do it. It isn't hard in theory, not so easy in practice.

1. determine the niches you want to work in and do massive keyword research for those niches. Know every keyword people search for that niche in and out.

2. build blogs. Build blogs all day every day. Spread them out across different servers, hosting companies etc.

3. optimize blogs for the keywords you researched. If you don't know how to do it there are many great online resources where you can learn SEO, just do a search for it.

4. Update the blogs that need it, build, build build, build. When you get a network of 600 blogs you don't really need any of them to be huge. If each one just gets 500 unique visitors each day that is 300,000 visitors most of which will be coming from link trades and your SEO work the quality should be pretty decent. Of course it could also be a lot bigger.

Here is the catch. To build an empire like this you will need build 2 blogs every day 6 days a week for a year (that also gives you time to take a couple weeks off during the year to regain your sanity). Of course building those blogs goes on top of updating your blogs, dealing with link trades, sponsors etc?. So as the empire grows, so does the work load. Most people are not going to be willing to put in that kind of work.

As for costs. Say you want to start out with a network that is just 10% that big. You buy 60 domains at $10 each for a total of $600. You will need some hosting. For a starting network you can get some small hosting accounts on a few different hosting companies for around $40-$50 per month or maybe less. So the cost is not that big, but it would be a lot, LOT of work.

Sure there are some other aspects to it and most people who have a network this big have tools they use to automate the workload and or a system in place to help them do all the work faster/smarter. They also have a good system in place to keep track of what they are doing and keep track of the network. They likely know their niches so well they can really zoom in on specific keywords and with this many sites they can build sites that can compete for larger, broader terms. But in the end it is about having the drive and desire to work. A huge network succeeds on trial and error. Once you figure out what works for you then you duplicate the shit out of it.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Now go forth and build