Why 1 Blog Is Never Enough
If you are serious about blogging, then 1 blog is never enough. Whether you are dreaming of becoming a professional blogger, running a fan site or supporting your business. You really must have more than 1 blog.
By this statement I am not implying that those people who’s aim it is to fill hyperspace with as many splogs as they can to promote their own business are right.
No, there is a technical reason for having more than 1 blog and if you are in any way a serious blogger, then listen up and create a new blog now.
Having a primary blog is all well and good and the perfect way to go. If you use a free host, such as wordpress.com of blogger, then you probably do not really need to read on. Actually, best you don’t – you can’t achieve the safety of having multiple blogs with them.
If your blog is important to you then you might be adding plugins, trying out new themes and importantly, protecting its safety through regular updates.
But, when there is a major update, for example WordPress has just gone to 3.0 (and now 3.0.1 – not so major), do you just install it to your new blog? I did not and certainly would not. Is everything compatible with your hosts? Does it cause any problems? Is it safe?
Too many questions and why you need another blog. Set up your second blog and install updates to that before you install them to your live blog. If it works, your main blog will probably be safe. If you have problems (files not downloaded properly etc) then you can find out in a test environment.
It is easy to set up a new blog – just create a folder within your current blog of /testblog and use that, or create a test subdomain of your current site.
There is no reason for not having a second blog to test updates out on and you will run updates knowing that you have previously tested them and feel much happier about them.
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August 12th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
My view is the best reason for having a second (third, fourth, etc) blog is focus.
Each blog can specialise in a particular are of interest. This greatly increases the blog owner’s chance of a blog being found by its target market, especially in the long term when it becomes established in search engines as an excellent source of information on that particular topic.
It’s also easier for those in the blog’s target audience to find a focussed blog (e.g. via sites like Technorati), and the odds of each person subscribing also go up (due to relevance).
August 16th, 2010 at 7:50 am
I agree with you Wayne about multiple blogs and your reasons stated! I’ve got several others, from travel to sports and more business related. It’s just trying to keep up with all of the writing that is the problem and keeping to the latest version of WordPress on them all!