Tips on how to Hire Bloggers and Start Your Own Blog Network - Part 1

Looking at the number of blog networks that are close to, I wonder what it will be love to start one of my own. I am sure you happen to be familiar with names like 9rules, b5media, Gothamist, Weblog, TechCrunch and more. Indeed, they are all blog networks. 

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Now, don't get the wrong idea here. At the time of this writing, I haven't started a blog network of my own, but I needed to know how it can be done.

While browsing through a list of blog network that I found online, I came across a familiar name -- Paul Short.

Paul Short and am were advisors at a private forum about a year back. Paul and am each have our own unique expertise when it comes to running an online business. I do lots of list building and affiliate programs, while Paul is a master at blogging and search engine optimization.

And little do I know, over the past one-year or so, Paul has been quitely building his own little blog network. It's called Gomaud Media.

When I learned about this, I actually sent Paul an email and questioned if he'd help me with this problem. I want to know how to hire bloggers and build a blog network. I was not sure that I'd be doing it, yet I sure want to learn how it can be done.

So he replied and later on we got on the phone speaking about that one thing -- how to hire bloggers and start a blog system.

The call lasted for over an hour. Plus Paul shared interesting things about starting your own blog network. One of the things was about where and how to find a good blogger in order to blog for you.

It's hard teaching people how to write and how to weblog. When you want someone to blog for you, it is best to get an actual blogger. Maybe there are few things that you can teach the blogger, something about how many blogposts they should do a day and things such as that. But in general, you want someone who is already blogging because they are already familiar with the technology and the tradition.

And to do that, you can look at sites like Technorati and Digg. These two sites index the content of blogs through all over the world. What you need to do is just look for blogs within the niche that you are seeking.

Now, here's a tip when looking for a blogger. Look for a blogger that has her/his own voice when writing. The reason by this is that they must have opinions on things and not just sit on the particular fence all the time. Why? Because bloggers like this will attract a lot more audience. People would always want to know that which you think.

Now that you have your blogger, you can start building your blog.

How do you work with your own blogger? From what I understand, if it's your blog, you need to prepare the blog, the actual hosting, get the domain name, do all the designing, do all the optimization, set up all the plug-ins, do all the marketing... and your blogger, will just login and blog.

And how much do you pay a blogger? Well, there are lots of models that you can use. But for Paul, he or she offers around $5 per article and expects around 60 to hundred posts. But when revenue from the weblog grows to a certain level, they may go into a revenue-sharing model. But I guess, by the end of the day, you need to talk about this with your blogger and agree on something that the both of you are confident with.

I think that's a fair deal.

Of course , Paul and I talked about more factors during the call. We talked about how much to pay a blogger, how to advertise your blog, how to monetize your blog and a lot more. But I can't tell you everything that Paul distributed to me without having to write a new.