[walrus]

Originally Posted by FuckingBastard

The free sites is more difficult to be indexed by google than blogs

I've been hanging around this board here for a while and think I have a good base knowledge of the free site game from the perspective of someone who really hasn't played it.

While I know I have tons to learn on the subject, I think I've got a pretty good jump on a lot of people

Originally Posted by Fadi

WOrdpress is by far the most search engine friendly application there is really. Google loves it.

Wordpress by itself has nothing to do with it. The basic templates with wordpress are more SE friendly than most people can build simply because they don't know much about optimization.

Again, while I concede I know very little on the optimization front, I'm also sure my experiences to date put me ahead of most of the crowd.

Originally Posted by artwilliams

Hi Walrus,

Sorry to here things are not going well for you. Is it the script that is causing problems or just blogging per se? There are always other blogging tools like Moveable Type or Joomla.

Personally, I've found that for the income I can generate that blogging was just not worth it. Maybe I am just not good at it.

None-the-less, good luck.

Or maybe the problem is things ar going too well. Blogging takes patience, tons of it and time but in the long run you can build a network of blogs that can generate money. Until they get too big, that is.

Originally Posted by Element115

Have you tried Blogs Organizer? I haven't tried it myself but there seem to be a lot of people that swear by it. I'm considering giving it a go someday here but I haven't had any issues with WP.

Wait until you have around 10k worth of posts on a blog and getting 5-6k a day in traffic. Multiply that by 4. I promise you'll melt what ever server your on.

BO is a nice script and I do own a copy but if your building more than splogs your extremely limited. It just doesn't have the required features to compete outside of the splog arena

Originally Posted by cd34

Having helped a number of wordpress powered sites, Walrus has reached a conclusion that a number of other people have reached.

The issue really isn't with BlogsOrganizer powering the network of sites, but, the fact that wordpress in a high traffic situation does not perform well. Their recent changes to their tables to hold revisions in the main table means that a site that has 1000 articles, each having a minor edit or two, results in a main post table with 3000+ records. Coupled with the fact that wordpress's indexes on that table are less than optimal for the types of queries, and the fact that the tag cloud is created with an utter mess of code, pushing a large amount of traffic through wordpress becomes problematic. wp-cache and wp-super-cache merely delay the inevitable.

A large, high traffic network running on wordpress will melt down with enough traffic. Add in pings and trackbacks and google scanning those 500 posts on 60+ blogs on one machine and you've got 30000 pageviews from Googlebot every week or so. And while googlebot's network will only scan 1 page per domain per bot per minute, if you've got 60 blogs, its hitting wordpress 60 times a minute on top of your normal traffic.

Wordpress was never designed with that type of activity. Neither was Joomla. MovableType writes static files which are infinitely better behaved.

And yes, google likes the default wordpress templates, but, that doesn't mean that it is the best. Their default templates and many of the supplied templates do have coding errors and are not optimal, but, are not too bad.

Walrus, I have another client with similar issues -- he's out of town right now, but, you might want to chat with him. He's about ready to write his own software or contract it out. Perhaps you can collaborate.

Thanks, ya put me in touch maybe we can do something together. I've definately got some idea's on what I'd like to see from a script.

Originally Posted by Vivaldi

Walrus what number of wp blogs do You have!? is one table with multiple table prefixes or more tables!? Interested as to have a server with one to manny wp's but low in traffic for now.

On the problematic server it's only 10. But my 4 oldest, most heavily trafficed blogs are on that server.