Comments on: Over Stretched Blogging

By: ed

ed — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:06:27 +0000

I learned that if someone wants a a good blog they have patience. Time well pass and your blog well start growing. But you also have to do a lot of work.

By: sara

sara — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:43:54 +0000

Hi could somebody tell me how you could get hundreds of links to your blog so it could rank high on search engines? I know its hard but theres has to be a way to make it easier.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:35:04 +0000

Slow and steady wins the race! :)

By: Lei

Lei — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:11:56 +0000

Ooooh. Timely reminder for me. I’ve been getting overly excited lately about starting new blogs. Perhaps I should let each one mature a bit before starting another.

By: John (SYNTAGMA 2.0)

John (SYNTAGMA 2.0) — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:06:12 +0000

That’s true, it’s easy to get overstretched, particularly early on when all the setup work is going on. But once you’re launched, it gets better. I think my present number of 6 blogs (2 for b5, 4 for Syntagma Media) is probably just enough and gives some diversification. Although, if there’s a synergy between blog topics it helps because your research efforts tend to overlap.

By: Barry Bell

Barry Bell — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:45:23 +0000

Scrivs – same with wurk.net. There’s three live right now (I take care of one of them), and in the next 7 days, we’ll also have education.wurk.net, it.wurk.net, secs.wurk.net and food.wurk.net. Then a few more during the next couple of weeks, for which i’m stil talking to writers about. Hopefully 30 in total by Christmas.

But yep, I’ll only launch a new one when I’ve found a writer to look after it.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:45:51 +0000

Well the cool thing with Fine Fools is that all the new sites launching aren’t written by me so I only launch sites that have writers attached to them. No reason for me to take on more work than I can handle (which I probably do now).

With Instablogs, when I see 50 blogs launching I expect to see at least 35-40 writers. From what I understand at most they might have 4-5.

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:12:59 +0000

It would be nice to know what is going on. They launched with 8 interesting posts on their wedding site wedlog.org back on the 6th Oct and then nothing. Maybe they should have done one every 2 days. I try to build up a portfolio of posts that aren’t date critical, so I have stuff to post in the future – not all at once. The last thing I want is for people to wonder where I have gone – which is whats happening at Instablogs.

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By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:50:26 +0000

Darren,

I totally agree with this point. I personally had a cell phone blog. This was just one blog. For some reason I felt that I had to post thirty times a day, which does not look normal by anyones perpective. At any rate the blog looked spammy. The blog was called cellounge. I have since then retooled this blog using Serendipity as the blogging engine. I used the original cellounge domain which was about cell phones and reused it to talk about giving your brain cells a rest in the cellounge (get it).

I am not ready to launch my one man network yet, however I am starting off with six blogs, and am only going to post when things catch my eye. I actually have nine blogs I want to do, but I am working my way into it like Darren suggests. I have google ads, amazon, and most of the time I am letting people know if its an affiliate link or not. Once I get everything the way I want it, I am going to add the minimalls.

I have decided this time, I am going to write for me, and not try to keep up with every little press release that comes out.

You know I am not sure that I can call it a network if its just little ol’ me.

By: Elliot Lee

Elliot Lee — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:32:42 +0000

But one thing’s for sure: Instablogs’s launch brought it a lot of (negative) publicity. For many blog networks, any publicity helps.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:35:51 +0000

It’s true – I’m at my limit right now. I blog on Jurgle.com, Blog-blog.org, b5′s Newlinuxuser.com, my personal blog, and my GNU/Linux User Show podcast blog. It’s all I can do to ensure I make a single post daily on each of them.

There is definitely a limit to how much blogging one can do in a day before dropping off the corporate radar :)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:02:39 +0000

I note also that instablogs are nicking (well rewriting) posts from weblogs inc – one of mine to be precise; full links but really – nothing original.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:35:25 +0000

Very true, there is definately a limited capacity of how much one can blog, and also manage.

By: frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger

frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:17:54 +0000

Hanging with the digerati

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