Blog Juggling

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1. Kit (1 comments.) says:

   1/13/2007 at 8:23 pm

   Thanks for the article. I now stick to one blog to minimise stress levels, but have at times maintained several daily’s, and it is hard.
2. Rirath (14 comments.) says:

   1/13/2007 at 9:01 pm

   I have to wonder though: Why? Assuming you are keeping these blogs for others to read, I’d often rather see all of a persons interests correctly categorized on one blog, than spread out over several. I suppose it depends on the type, professionalism, and number of authors per blog though.
3. Pi (9 comments.) says:

   1/14/2007 at 8:15 am

   I see little point in maintaining several different weblogs with differing content – the categories are there for that – unless each one is run under a different identity. That’s not to say no one should do it, of course, but why?
4. Frozenball (1 comments.) says:

   1/14/2007 at 9:01 am

   I really don’t see any point of having multiple personas. But it’s just my opinion.
5. Aaron B. Hockley (2 comments.) says:

   1/15/2007 at 3:25 am

   For those who don’t understand why you’d have multiple blogs, here’s a concrete example which is my life: I run Dogcaught.com which focuses on railroading and railroad photography. I also run PortlandFeed.com which focuses on issues local to the Portland metro area.

   Two sites, totally different topics. People reading about train pictures from Wyoming don’t care what’s going on in Portland, and the folks looking at government waste in Portland don’t particularly care about a photo of a train from California.

   Hence, separate blogs.
6. Gnorb (5 comments.) says:

   1/15/2007 at 3:46 pm

   One factor, for those of you questioning the needs for multiple blogs, is money. If you run a blog about Macs, and your crowd wants to read about Macs, and your advertisers want to see Mac-related content, why would you put anything more than a smidgeon of unrelated content or, God forbid, inappropriately controversial content (ie. politics or religion) and potentially alienate a good chunck of your audience?

   Personally, I have one blog. It contains information on everything from Anime to Web tools. While the cross section of those two is quite high, I also write about personal development, business, and marriage, not to mention all the unclassifiable personal stuff. If I were running a blog on Personal Development, my posts on Anime would have almost Zero place there. (My blog is aimed at Gen-Y’ers who, I can only presume, have tastes similar to mine.) Nevertheless, I like Anime, and want to write about it. Solution? Open up a new blog. In order to alienate one from the other (for business and SEO purposes), I’ll develop another identity to run that one. This identity shows up in places like Anime Nation and Cons, while the Personal Development pesona shows up at places like Tony Robbins seminars.

   Now, let’s add another persona, the political junkie. I know (from first hand experience) that unless you’re aiming for the political spectrum, this is one topic you should generally avoid in any business sense. Personally, it’s just fine and dandy. If you want to make money on your site, avoid this topic like the plague.
7. Drake (2 comments.) says:

   1/16/2007 at 1:30 pm

   With all the fuss about niche marketing, I can understand why people think it’s so great but I personally could not care any less about adding other aspects of my interests on my blog. The multiple personas is a bit crazy for me. It’s obvious that there is more to a blogger’s life then just his niche topic so why should he limit himself to writing about one thing all of the time? As long as there is good organization, I think writing about other niche categories wouldn’t neccessarily drive away your readers because many of them can relate to the blogger and his/her other interests in life and could find out useful information reading things that are of interest to the writer. Maybe it’s just me, but I think specific niche marketing limits a blogger as a writer. Now a days, blogs are doing useless blog tagging and other lame stuff because they probably have nothing left to write about in such a specific field. If you really have to seperate your writing then sign up another blog to give you a little room to work with but you don’t have to create a whole new identity to go with it. Blogging is just another name for reporting but the blogosphere became so infested with money hungry wanna be entrepreneurs who wanted to strike it rich with a blog that much of the information they provide is just recycled news off of websites and other bloggers. I am going off topic here but the post was well writen and interesting, but I think it’s a little crazy handling so many identities as just one person and creating different personalities to fit with each one. (I’m Schizophrenic so I know all about relating to different characteristics)
8. John@Dog-Breeds-Explained (1 comments.) says:

   1/24/2008 at 9:06 pm

   One blog one niche!

   That is the only way to focus success on you and your blog. I have a dog breeds website and also a seperate blog on dogs. They serve the same niche market but are different. The search engines see relative links coming from my dog breed website to my dog blogs and they love it.

   I highly recommend you get up as man blogs as you can handle, its easy you know. Especially with rss feeds. My dog members love it and yours will too.

   Great post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Sincerely,
   John Adams

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