A lot of people think that building their own network is expensive, but that's not true at all.
In fact you can build the start of your network for cheaper than what it would cost you to buy posts on a public network you would find advertised on forums like BlackHatWorld.
You also have to consider that each site in your private blog network is a business asset that will bring huge financial returns in the near future.
So let's take a look at the rough costs involved.
Authoritative Domain
You have a number of options when it comes to buying your domains and I have 16 different sources that I use to get domains.
Prices depend on a number of factors like where you buy them from & how authoritative they are.
For example you can often register a relevant expired domain with authority for the same price as a new domain which is around $8.
But if you go through a domain broker or service that specialises in selling these domains you can expect to pay around $30-$100 each.
I will take you through all of these different options later in the course but on average you can expect to pay around $15 per domain for your network.
Hosting As with domains the price you pay for hosting can also vary. It is important that you use a different host for each site in your network and I will talk about that later in the course along with all of my personal hosting sources and how to avoid leaving hosting footprints.
But on average you can expect to pay around $2-56 per month to host each site in your network.
Content
Sourcing content for each site in your network is usually the biggest expense you will face.
There is an endless amount of places you can source content from (again I will discuss this in detail later) but you will need 4 to 8 articles of 400-800 words each at random for each site in the network.
You can either choose to write this yourself which costs nothing more than your time or if you are short on time you can outsource this work to writers.
You will pay around $6-$8 per article and you need 4 to 8 of them at random for each site.
So on the low end of the costs you can expect to pay around $28-$56 for the content you need if you don't write it yourself.
Costs Summary
With all of that said, here is a summary of the costs for each site in your network-
One Off Costs
1. Domain $15
2. Content $40
2. Content $40
Recurring Costs 1. Hosting $4 per month So you are looking at $55 per site you setup along with $4 per month on average. This makes private blog networks one of the most cost effective ways of ranking sites period.
