I am new in the blogging business, the first thing I do is to post to hosted blogs, most of the blogs I am working on are wordpress based, its a fact that WordPress is perfect for casual as well as professional bloggers, together with Open Source License make the wordpress the most famous and versatile blogging software of all time.
Then I found out that I probably should build blogs myself, subsequently I can use my own blogs to promote my other websites, and I think its not a patentable idea, there are a lot of blog networks out there doing just that, but those are not my own sites and I don’t have control, and I have no way to post to those blogs, its easy to understand that the price on those networks won’t be cheap.
Its a tedious job to maintain more than a few blogs, if you want values for your blogs, the real content writing is time and money consuming, its never easy to build successful blogs. Some blogs are quite interesting, look at this one, dealer tools, it’s name is pretty cute, the content on the site is not bad, since this is not a themed blog, you’ll find all kinds of different posts there. Here is another one, My Office Lunch, this one has main theme, the content on the this site has a theme, quite a few keywords rank well for this site. I can show you a lot more sites, but I believe you get the idea. Here is one last note, you should build some casual blogs, put some random content on those blogs occasionally, take one blog as example, Best Linux Hosting, your blogging network looks more natural with these casual blogs.
When you already have a few interesting blogs, add more blogs when you can, then use the established blogs to promote the new ones, get your own little blog network going is not that too difficult. Of course its just the beginning, it won’t be easy to build even a tiny blogging network, follow the professional recommendations and ethic codes of online conduct you will be fine.