How to manage huge network of blogs?
 

I'm currently involved in a project that will potentially turn into 100s of blogs spread across many many hosts.

How to manage them all? Its a bitch to login into each and everyone to schedule posts, manage ads, etc etc. Are there any tools that allow you to manage networks of wordpress blogs AND that don't leave a noticeable footprint?

Why spread across "many, many" hosts? Any chance of just getting a dedicated server, and putting them all on there?

If so, I have an excellent solution for you. Contact me: troywilk [at] gmail.com.

Its a blog network for a specific niche. They are spread across many hosts/servers for a reason.

I highly doubt you'll find a packaged software to do what you're looking for. It'll require custom programming. You'll need one centralized system that has remote access to all databases & files. Either that, or have a bot developed that emulates a human, logs into WP and performs the necessary tasks.

I highly doubt what you're looking for will be found in a packaged software though. You're going custom for this one.

You could have 1 control panel that has all the domains listed, posts and ads. Then each day it exports to a txt file on that domain. All your other domains would just f_open to that domain file. Example: http://www.maindomain.com/templates/....com/index.txt
That file would be included into your domainname.com and that would mean you can run unlimited sites via 1 control panel.

What kind of management features are needed?

i tried making something like this but i suspect that the key in what you need is the part about not leaving a foot print, you want it to essentially feel and act (in a programming sense) like it was posted from the actual admin and not some other system. It makes a difference and when i tried it that was the hardest part

I thought there is a desktop app that manages many blogs, someone posted it here a week or so ago

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nevermind my earlier post :)

Cms: http://bo.cheapestwebsoftware.com/
Links: http://lo.cheapestwebsoftware.com/
Ads: A series of mirrored domains with a master domain running openx

But since you said Wordpress... you might be able to hack up wp MU... or make a master blog (use a blank theme so there's no html to be spidered) with categories for each niche/site/etc. Take the rss feed from that category and feed it into the satellite blog(s).

plenty of tools you noobs
lookup linkfarmevolution for an example

Maybe here http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/997426-windows-live-writer-bloggers.html

sending you some ideas over icq :)

u-Bob, I could use some of those ideas if you want to share :)

i've tried to do this in the past on loads of freehosts and without fail, one of the main sponsors go under and i'm left with hundreds of links/posts to check :(

There is a whole bunch of things you can do to automate things - such as using Links Organizer for traffic trading, and Blogdesk to write posts. I never log into Wordpress really.

Link organizer, A-B-C link trading, SEO Hosting where you can get a bunch of different Class C, and someone who knows what they are doing. Both on the link structure, and proper set up of management and handling the back end needed for name servers, different accounts, and shit.

SEO Hosting is about a lot more than some different Class C's.
:2 cents:

the best thing to do is hire a staff to manage some of you hundreds of your blogs :)

BO or WPMU + LO + SP = done

What do you do to update or add a plug in or update wordpress acress your whole network?

Yep you got it.

You can add some of your own feeds thru XML also. Then add the categorized XML feeds into Blogs Automator and set your campaigns.

Managing ads can be done with hotspot or openx :thumbsup:thumbsup

Blogs Organizer from http://bo.cheapestwebsoftware.com/ ?

feel free to post more of them :thumbsup

thanks :)

Whats SP?

have you taken a look at http://www.cheapestwebsoftware.com/ ?

I hope this thread goes on forever

I will give it a bump for you then

okey :) it would be great

I did this a few months ago and it works like charm! :thumbsup :2 cents:

Highly recommended, just as Kaktusan's Links Organizer. :pimp

http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm is a pretty nice free piece of software.


But my way to do it is:

Hire article writers.
Put all articles into a folder.
Hire a coder to make a script that post one random article everytime you run the script.
Add a cron-job to that script.

I've seen blogdesk mentioned a couple of times here.

What does blogdesk do that you can't do already with WP and bookmark set-up in your browser?

I tried it before and saw no benefit over the way I was managing stuff. If anything I had to go through a few more steps in blogdesk to accomplish what I do without it.

That my friend is genius!

I had a look at their software and its alright. It has a few interesting features. But its not exactly what I'm looking for. I'll probably pick up Links Organizer once I finish creating a network I'll be willing to open up to the public.

thanks for the links