Blog network structure
Posted by DavidM in RLN launch | 25 November 2005
An interesting posting on Performancing about the structure of blog networks, almost exactly stating what we are looking to do here.
The question it poses is: instead of having a broad range of blogs about various topics, why not have a 'hub and spoke' approach - a central blog that summarises content from individual blogs, and directs readers to blog content across the network. The blogs themselves all take different aspects of the same topic.
This is our plan. We are setting up a series of blogs by Football fans, covering the major teams (we're focusing on UK but any big team is good), the ref's perspective, etc. We'll do all the hosting and stuff and you just write about following your team, football and life as a fan.
By approaching it this way, we can offer lots of different perspectives on a topic from a single over-arching blog site. And through having a number of blogs that will overlap occasionally, there is more chance of readers moving amongst the blogs.
In researching this I haven't found many examples of this approach, so it will be interesting t see how we get on.
Cheers
DavidM