Comments on: One Blog or Many? [VIDEO]

By: Ed Hardy bags

Ed Hardy bags — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:20:28 +0000

The thing is that I have a job so I spread myself thin as it is with just two blogs.

By: SURVEYS FOR MONEY

SURVEYS FOR MONEY — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:53:45 +0000

Personally, I see having more than one blog as being two much work. But then again I am new to this. And I feel that having more than one blog affects the quality of you content. I spend almost all my time promoting my single blog and it’s plenty of work already.

By: Yoga Guru

Yoga Guru — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:34:54 +0000

I think more than one blog provides a nice change of pace and helps me from going stale. The question I have is how many is too many? I seem to have a new interest everyday and it seems harder not to start a new blog than to start one.

By: Gina Di Nola

Gina Di Nola — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:56:29 +0000

Darren, I really appreciate the time you take to video record your messages (advice and opinions). Thank you for helping the rest of us learn to be better bloggers.

Gina.

By: Gregor

Gregor — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:08:53 +0000

I think it all depends on how efficiently a given blogger can write and how many interesting things the blogger has to say.

http://www.smartwallet.org/

By: Palmer

Palmer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:58:04 +0000

Could someone please write up the video articles as being deaf means that I cannot understand them. Cheers!

By: العاب

العاب — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:57:08 +0000

i personally have more than just one blog . i think it’s more practrical to have many.

however, this depends on your needs. if u feel that the topic you wanna discuss is different and take your blog astray then, you’d better start a blog for each niche.

By: ITrush

ITrush — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:38:07 +0000

that’s my plan actually, to have atleast 3 blogs.. infact right now I’m almost done planning on my next project. But before doing it, I see to it first that the main blog that I’m currently working on will produce good results.

By: Georjina

Georjina — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:13:20 +0000

Hi Darren,
That’s been the main problem with my blog – it went in too many directions for a few years. Now I’ve decided to simply create 3 mini blogs and link from older posts to them because the topics most commented on tells me it would be better in the long run.

My strengths are writing and researching in specific areas, and the blog I have now does ramble into other areas.

Thank you for posting this.

By: Anja

Anja — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:53:27 +0000

I currently have only one blog, and since I’m just getting started I don’t really see myself creating any new blogs for the moment.

I believe that trying to embrace too many topics will result in an overall decrease in quality, and after all, what matters most is the quality of your writing.

By: Electric Swag (A.Lloyd)

Electric Swag (A.Lloyd) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:26:41 +0000

I love videos, btw.

You don’t have to produce a blog at 50% effort. You don’t split the level of attention that you give your children, do you?

If you have great monentary goals, I’d say have several blogs of your interests.

Or do one blog, when it gets successful, start doing spin off blogs.

Whatever blog that you are working on at the moment, give it 100% effort. It will pay off.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:39:59 +0000

Good advice. But one blog is hard enough to promote!

By: Danny Lieberman

Danny Lieberman — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:32:37 +0000

I currently have 4 blogs and I’ve found that it’s simply a time management issue

I think that the quality of writing and content in the blog is the most important thing – and diversity when used right, can help keep the blog interesting and also get a wider group of readers involved

I blog on information security and I think that the stuff I touch on music and technology keeps the edge on

Like I told a cousin once – You’re really weird I think – and she said yes, of course I am – that’s what makes me so interesting!

Danny Lieberman

By: Muzi Mohale

Muzi Mohale — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:24:35 +0000

Currently have three blogs, the two I generate content myself and outsource content for the other, however I’ve just released that I’ll need to let go of the other blog that I currently manage myself, because honestly I don’t have enough time to focus on it…which means I’ll recruit a freelance blogger to contribute content and pay them a monthly retainer.

By: Harrison Schmidt

Harrison Schmidt — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:20:43 +0000

Good video post. I think its definitely best to create one successful blog first, then use it to leverage any future blogs you create.

By: VirtualMissFriday

VirtualMissFriday — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:33:40 +0000

Very helpful. It is really time consuming to manage and maintain several blogs all at once. It is very tedious to keep posting articles or blog posts daily with several topics.

By: RaceDriven

RaceDriven — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:58:03 +0000

I like what you had to say on one bloh or many, I am currently running two blogs right now and even I have noticed that it is effecting my writing just a liitle bit,

Of course this all started because I simply just wanted a name and url change and since I have advertisers, thats almost impossible to do. Changing a name and url that simply doesn’t work anymore, but is known to a new name and url without traffic and PR is a nightmare especially with advertisers.

Personally, running one blog is better in my opinion, that blog is the best of what you can do, but I will say that when it comes to a resume, two or more is better, so I guess that hold true to blogs as well.

But does the name and url of your blog play a huge role in what topics you write on and who will visits?

By: JJ Jalopy

JJ Jalopy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:55:56 +0000

Very cool video Darren. Thanks.

I was pondering this very topic as I sat on the train earlier today. What a timely post…

I find that posting on an extra blogs does not add too much overhead.

It’s the setup time, and marketing overheads that really eat up time for me…

Cool stuff dude. Thanks.

By: We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog

We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:48:29 +0000

Great video, thanks for the input! I was thinking about starting a second blog actually so this is great info.

As for the first comment about posting videos as oppossed to writing articles… well, it’s the future of the web! I think a decent mix is fine.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:42:14 +0000

L-Jay’s comment above is a real good one. Also, think lifestyle or demographic instead of niche.