Niche sites on wordpress are all the rage. They are easy to build, and can easily make you good money, whether from adsense or an affiliate product. The key to the success of these sites is building links back to them. Starting a blog to support your main sites is a great way to build links.

A support blog will most likely be started on a free blog platform. There are literally hundreds of places online where you can start a blog to support your main site. The two most well known are probably blogger.com and wordpress.com. These are the two places most people think of when they are starting a blog to support their main site, however it can be beneficial to look to other options as well.

If you fail to spread out your network it can be catastrophic. The major downfall of using free blogging platforms when starting a blog is they have control over your sites. In fact, they own them. They can just delete your blog or you whole account for that matter whenever they want. It is very important to read the terms of service at each platform before you begin. You may find the TOS say you can not use the site to build a blog to use for linking back to another site. Even if the content is good, you may find this blog deleted anyway. This is especially true at wordpress.com.

When starting a blog you are going to use to support another site you want to make it about a bit broader topic. Your niche site was probably very focused on a specific keyword or a tight niche, but you want your support blog to be a wider topic so you can include not only the keywords from this site, but others you may create in the future. It also allows you to link to other sites you find that you like, without compromising the integrity of the site.

Anchor text links are the most important thing when it comes to starting a blog to support your main site. You must make sure all of your links pointing back to your main site are using your keywords as the anchor text. Anchor text simply means the words that get underlined that people click on in a link. Many people will use “click here” as the link text. This is wrong. This will do your site absolutely no good. You must have your keywords in that position.

Creating a support network for your niche sites is a great way to help them improve their search engine rankings. Starting a blog on a free platform is one of the easiest ways to get your support network started. It can seem overwhelming, but remember as you build this network it will be available to you to use on future sites as well.