I know the word “blog network” is going to ring some alarm bells with a lot of people, who can’t seem to differentiate the idea from that of building a “blog farm” – but the two are strikingly different. I know a few people who make their living with just one blog are going to jump up and say “that won’t work”, but this group should really try and expand their online portfolio using the “proven” and “legal” methods they talk so highly of.

The truth is, if you’re currently managing more than three blogs, you already have some sort of blog network. The question is, how well can you manage them?

Firepow by Andrew Hansen, which similar in some aspects to 1WayLinks, Article Marketing Automation and JetSumitter, is really a completely different blogging beast. Think of it as all those services combined into a single blog network management platform.

Now let me start with the one thing I don’t like about Firepow – the glaring red fonts and rather amateur-ish look. Yeah it’s true you should not judge a book by its cover but I’m guessing that most people would look at Firepow and think it’s some sort of second-grade blog spamming software.

If you can get over that, like I did, you’ll find that Firepow is probably what every blogger on the planet is looking for. With Firepow you can:

• Build and manage an unlimited amount of WordPress blogs
• Easily add / remove plugins and themes to all your blogs
• Manage content distribution and publishing to all your blogs
• Submit your posts to most popular social bookmarking sites

There are currently 1186 blogs available in the Firepow Blog Network. Now, since there are other Firepow users doing the same thing you are which is building more blogs and adding more content, you can also:

• Get free, fresh content from other members posted to your blogs easily , from Firepow’s “BNET”
• Content is unique because using the content spinner tool, every member gets a randomly spun version
• Get one-way links from other blogs in the network, helping your SEO rankings

With the new release, you can also import existing WordPress blogs into Firepow so you can easily manage all your blogs at once.

So do you need Firepow? The short answer is “It depends”. If you have only one or two blogs / sites than you can manage them easily, and you could easily sign-up with 3WayLinks, 1WayLinks or JetSumitter to get incoming links to your blog.

But, if you manage more than 3 blogs consider this – every time WordPress upgrades to a new version (and we know how often that is) you’ll be facing the impossible task of upgrading all your blogs. Plus if you have different plugins and themes on each, these need to be upgraded or fixed as well. It’s just a massive headache if you’re doing it by yourself.

Most people that have lots of blogs often outsource many tasks to maintain their sanity, but with Firepow it’s quite possible to do everything yourself on one central place. For now the platform appears to be stable and while testing it I didn’t come across any error screens, which is good.

Actually, I think this review alone is not enough for you to grasp the full capabilities of Firepow. You have to read the sales page to get your questions answered.

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