How Many Blogs Should You Maintain?
Posted by David Wiltshire on August, 26th 2008It’s a quite common question. Most of us get stuck on to this question after sometime into the online business. Let me clarify one thing. It may be a common question but there is no common answer. It depends on the individual. But there are some aspects that you need to consider before you decide for yourself.
There is no doubt that creating multiple blogs will give you stability on earning. Consider that you solely depend on earning from blogging & you have a quite popular news blog. Someday for any reason a search engine like Google penalizes you or your SERP goes down due to some algorithm change. You will see drastic loss of income.
The worst thing is that you may not have any backup. Multiple blogs cover you from this problem. It’s very rare that all your blogs would get penalized at the same time unless you make some ridiculous common mistake.
Now ask yourself, “Do I have the time to update?”. If you don’t update your blogs regularly then you are going nowhere from SEO point of view. There is no point in creating some sub-standard blogs with little content. Those blogs will never achieve good SERP or regular readers. Besides for each new blog you have to promote & do lots of SEO work to attract traffic. It does take time.
Another thing you really have to consider. Would you like to be a generalizer or a specialist? For example, you can write a miscellinious online blog covering different topics like software, games, web design, blogging or computer tips & tricks. You may feel comfortable with it.
You will have plenty of content to write about. It would be a general blog. Or you can divide this blog under three or four sub-niche like software blog, gaming blog or blog about blogging. Then you can call yourself specialist blogger. But remember you have to find content to manage these blogs.
It would be better to write 3-4 posts per week on a online blog than writing one post on each of these sub-niche blogs. So before you commit yourself to another blog, consider these few questions. I would recommend 2-3 good blogs under different niche if you can manage.
But as I have said before, the decision is yours. One thing, if you are a newbie create blogs one by one. First create one & make it popular and stable. Then start working with another one. You will constantly learn new things with time.
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Posted by Ashwaria on 27 Feb 2009Nicely written. I had to consider this before I added a third blog to my repertoire. Adding the second one was easy, since my first blog was associated with my business and I knew I wanted a second blog to write pretty much whatever I wanted to write.Thing is, I’m not making money off any of my blogs, but I am having lots of fun, and, well, I guess that’s okay also, as long as I always have something to say.
Posted by Mitch on 28 Feb 2009I currently own about 5 or 6 different blogs in different niches but manage only about 2 or 3 of them at a time – the others get neglectedI think that 3 is a good amount depending on their size and age
Posted by Anon on 01 Mar 2009I used to run hundreds at a time however these were automated blogs that would generate their own content, post it on regular intervals and bookmark their new posts in various social bookmarks. The target was to earn $1.50 from every blog/day. It all depends on what you want to do and how much time you have to do it.
Posted by Anon on 01 Mar 2009In starting of blogging people love to make post often but when it becomes routine and specially when a single person handle more than 3 or 4 blogs on different topics it become harder and hectic to maintain and manage all blogs with quality or quantity, yes it gives earning stability but needs passion, hard work and cleverness.
Posted by Anon on 02 Mar 2009Normally to the newbies, they tend to create so many blogs. But they don’t oversee the quality of the blogs. Even a single blog is enough to generate traffic, but of course it’s always better to atleast maintain 2 blogs to have a better fighting chance.
Posted by Anon on 02 Mar 2009Maximum 2 blogs can maintain more than these not able to maintain quality and quantity, even one blog enough to generate money but want to go with different topics than two blog is ideal to generate traffic and handsome money too.
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Posted by anybody looking for a guest post for free? – Blog Forum – Bloggeries on 03 Mar 2009It’s very hard and confusing to manage different niche. I myself has tried that and it almost made me crazy. But though I survived, this article is promising to bloggers! Thanks !
Posted by Anon on 05 Mar 2009I was running with six at one stage, but it just got too muchI think you have to be a bit of a hardass in this situation, if you’re blogging for money, and you know that you’ve give a blog a good go, and it’s still not making you any money, you’ve just got to let it go….
Posted by Stu on 17 Mar 2009Nice written article. I think this is down to the individual and unless you’re planning on running an automated blogs, another thing one should think about is if you have the time to manage the such blogs.
Posted by Salwa on 05 May 2009A very well written article but it always depends on the blogger upon what is he/she comfortable writing. You can even have a single great blog working fine and there is no need to spread your shadow!
Posted by Tech-Freak Stuff on 28 May 2009I tried blogging for a while.. it didn’t work out too well. I could barely manage running one blog never mind multiple ones! I really admire anyone who puts the time and effort into blogging through several blogs
Posted by Marisha Adams on 04 Jun 2009