GOOGLE CAUGHT ME!

PROJECT SWARM
I started the swarm project with great enthusiasm. "This is how to build one supporting pillar for the business", I thought. So, I sought to grab much-searched terms in Finland. I used local and global search engine popular lists, Google Trends and Google AdWords. I kept on mining those popular keywords that would eventually bring me traffic. Since the project swarm will include one hundred individual sites I thought that the best way to combine hand-made website creation and some sort of efficiency would be to do this in phases.

First I would determine good domain names and then launch them with something else than Blogger standard template while giving them unified look. Finally I would put lot of hours into creating individual sites one by one so that they would beat most competing sites with provided info. Streamlined plan, right?

BLOGGER TEAM MAILED ME

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://martina-aitolehti.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. For an explanation of what spam blogs are, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog. To request a review, please fill out the form found here: http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog

We will take a look at your blog and unlock it within four business days. Please note that if we do not hear from you within 20 days, we will remove your blog. If this blog does not belong to you, then you do not have to do anything. Any other blogs you may have will not be affected.

Since you are an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not spam. We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this erroneous result. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to users like you instead of to spammers.

Thank you for your understanding and for your help in our spam-fighting efforts.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?
Before I really got going with the plan, I got this automated message from Blogger. Obviously I had done something evil. Can't blame them, signs of Blogspot subdomain spam are undeniable, from automated point of view. I decided to use my personal Blogger account for this experiment, so some damage to search engine positions were expected. I thought that it will most likely be an interesting topic to analyze and write about. Didn't expect Google to be this fast about this.

WHAT NOW MR. SMART?
I must ask for review, because if I don't they will probably check those other blogs and give similar fate for them. It would be a cat and mouse game, I create and they disintegrate. But how on earth they know I am an actual person, reading their mail? Just like the mystery with radio DJs, every time I listen to radio, they seem to know that I'm following their station.

MINISITES

MINISITES BABY!
Minisites project is slowly rolling out to conquer internet. Plan is to do one site a day, which is a pace I'm not likely able to maintain, but it will set a bar that creates pressure. For readers here it will be difficult to follow my progress on this, because I plan to do all those sites in Finnish, since it is the ultimate niche framework. Although I'm just starting

SWARM
I hear in marketing it is good to have sexy terms like 2.0, Air, SomethingX, SomethingZ, Somethingrz and so on. My minisites project is hereby named - Swarm (I spare you from Zwrm, also it is a parked domain, so it was never meant to be). Now, swarm is much more marketable term, mosquitoshly disgusting, yet somehow fascinating. It doesn't immediately give away the concept behind and therefore readers are likely to stick with this slightly longer, maybe long enough for them to start appreciating what they read.

SWARM LOGIC
100 of them and all in Finnish. Popular and not so popular topics, sort of a mix to test what works the best. No cross-linking what so ever, because I will be using Blogger to do this, and Blogger is going to keep close eye on account that starts to have tens and tens of blogs. Every site is probably going to have some sort of advertising revenue model, because Finnish language is going to set strict limits for monetization methods. Well, I'm off to reserve some Blogger subdomains.