Well this has been a bit of a crazy day - in a good way. Besides buying a winning $50 scratch ticket, I was mentioned on a German news site which brought in a nice chunk of traffic to one of my blogs…probably 4,000 or so extra visitors. I love days like that… I wish it would happen every day.
I am finding the deeper I get into blogging the more humbled I am becoming. It’s pretty tough finding a good idea that can attract visitors, keep them coming back, earn you money and be exciting at the same time. It’s not impossible, just tougher than first anticipated. I think one of my biggest hangups is after going through the first dot.com bomb I’m always expecting another internet implosion and this creates a certain anxiety. Do I really want to invest all of my efforts into something that could cave in with little or no warning? Well, I guess that’s part of the risk I have to take.
Another hangup I have is the massive amount of blogs that are already out there. It does seem quite saturated - but the good thing is there are a lot of blogs that come and go. This blog could be one of them! Hopefully not though. There is only so much time though and only so many blogs one person can run. My gut feeling tells me to stick with one blog and do that one well and start another one only when that one has built up a lot of momentum. But, I’ve got several good blog ideas and am having problems figuring out which ones to focus on. Yes…I’m probably spreading myself too thin.
I think most of all I need some type of structure. A schedule of some sort. Anyone out there have any suggestions for how to run multiple blogs? How many do you run… and how do you do it?
Well, what i do is set parts of the day for each blog, i have blogs that require higher standard of content-quality and blogs that don’t. I update the higher standard blogs first, so at the end of the day if i’m tired of posting, it’d be easy for me to update the other ones.
Another important too i use is “quicknote” extension for Firefox, it allows me to add links directly in one click to a virtual notepad and see them later, which makes multiple updating easier.
A.H