Want Your Own Garden Blog

One of the things I’ve always wanted to do is work with a group of fellow gardeners in a blog network about gardening. So when the opportunity came along to start a gardening blog network, I jumped at the chance.

And now I’m going to open up the network to you folks.

If you want a gardening blog on an all-gardening blog-network, click here to see the front page. There’s a blue button in the top right hand corner – click on that and sign up.

Some things to know.

1) This is a time limited offer. I’ll be closing down the registration in a short bit and then opening it up every now and then as we can handle new bloggers.

2) You own your content. You can import an existing blog or if you decide to leave this network, you can export your content to another blog.

3) Money. Always an interesting question. The biggest problem that network owners have is how to pay writers. By post? By traffic? By advertising revenue? Each system rewards one kind of behavior and penalizes others and networks disintegrate (business-wise) based on these problems. I’ve researched this pretty thoroughly so here’s the deal. Garden blogs don’t make a lot of money (check your adsense numbers if you think this is an error) So if we make the hosting fees, life is good (I’m covering shortfalls). If we make more than the hosting fees, the money from the adsense accounts will be given to charity. I’m thinking charities that are non-political like Doctors without Borders – groups that help people who truly need it. This will be transparent and reported every month.

So – there will be no money made by any blogger. But with the extra traffic we create as a network, you should get more readers and this can translate into any number of income possibilities. Or networking or just one heck of a good time.

NEW – it turns out that we have two options – the system wide ads that will be served to all blogs to make money and your own codes in individual posts where you get to keep the money. So we all win on this one.

Or – you don’t care about making money and just want to have fun and hang out with a bunch of fellow garden bloggers. In this case, here we are.

4) The software is WordPress with over 100 plugins to make your blog do almost anything you can think of.