Blog Solution occasionally does a $1 trial — and they are doing it right now.  This isn’t something you should just run out and purchase with out putting some thought into it — be it a dollar trial or not.

First things first — you can’t REALLY do this on a shared host.  Your going to need a VPS.  I talked about my experiences with Liquid Web in a post a couple days ago… and while I love Liquid Web you can probably shave off a few bucks a month going for one of the cheaper VPS providers for something like Blog Solution – UNLESS it’s your first VPS.  In that case suck it up, put your big girl panties on and spend the extra 15 a month for the extra support.  You will probably need it your first time around with a vps.

Now the good news with Blog Solution is that you can fit about 15 instances of a Blog Solution install on a low end VPS set up.  That’s 15 domains with hundreds of subdomains pointing links to any sites you want.

Now for the little tricks that end up being ‘work’ but make things worthwhile.

To set up BlogSolution your going to need to know how to do the following:

• how to ftp files.
• how to use cpanel on your host/server.
• how to modify html for your blog templates (or how to find someone to do it for you).

That last bullet point is really going to be the hardest part — because if you use the default templates your just coming out the door with a ton of footprints and Google is going to find you fast, and de-index you.

Here is what you need to do to get the most out of every single BS site you put up.

The “real” part of this where all the “WORK” comes in is that your going to have to add some ‘real’ content occasionally.  You CAN get by with out doing so, but when I used blog solution regularly I found that adding articles and fun stuff like that on a regular basis paid off with longer indexed times, etc…

Your also going to have to make sure that all the links your building inside BS don’t all go to your sites. I’ve found it really confuses manual reviewers if you are building links to 100 sites that aren’t yours….. just make sure they aren’t your competitor

Finally – you still should build some links to your BS sites – If they are all getting links from only pinging your really missing out on what these sites can do for you.

I’ll be upfront here and say that I stopped using  Blog Solution some time ago.  I use a combination of the tools that are available inside Niche Site Special 2 to get blogs that rarely get de-indexed and suit my needs exactly…. but Blog Solution really could be a part of your marketing plan if your willing to take the initial time to set them up — because once you do that they can pretty much sit and continue to grow.  My problem was I didn’t take enough time to elimate the footprints and Google eventually caught up with me.  Didn’t have the energy or desire to really put the work into another set of sites when I already have my own solutions available — and it’s much easier to sell a wordpress blog when your done with it than it is to sell a BlogSolution site that 99 percent of the website buyers aren’t interested in or aware of.

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