Too many blogs (again)?
Published June 30th, 2007 in SB news.I’ve been messing about with blogs again. No surprise there.
But it looks like I’ve got to ditch at least one of my blogs. Maybe more. I’ve just read The Dangers of Too Many Sites, amongst other posts, and I think it’s time to prune.
I’ve started the Pro Blogging Community, which is taking a bit of my time up. See the cute button to the right. It may be that ProBlogCo becomes the main destination for all of my blogging efforts. I don’t know.
There’s our personal site, which is a sort of diary come affiliate site, and I’ll keep that for posterity.
Motorhome Essentials is actually doing quite well, and I’m deffo going to keep that one.
Sub-notebook computing is good and fun, but I can’t really decide what it’s supposed to be about. The idea was that it would be a popular (or even populist) blog, about geeky things, but I haven’t got the time to update it, and I can’t find the niche it’s supposed to operate in. I’m really interested in the products, but I suspect I may be one of only a few. I don’t want to drop into the mobile phone sector, ‘cos it’s really crowded. The Ultra Mobile PC sector is too small, and has an uncertain future. Smartphones? Maybe, but what’s the definition of a smartphone? There’s too many blurred lines between the product groups, and there’s too much going on to write about everything. So this one looks like it’s for the chop.
The Property Essentials blog is (again) an area I’m personally very interested in, but am I really active enough to support it?
I think the worst one for my update count (and how quickly it should be updated) is Successful Sites. I think I’ll ditch that one too, and keep it for the webdesign / blogdesign website. Or something.
So, now we have a cleaner, stripped down network. And I’ll keep it updated often. Honest.

I know this dilemma well!
I’m not a full-on pro-blogger yet (have made pocket money from some blogs with the intention to gradually increase this). But I have been blogging for quite while now and I have several running.
I’ve often thought that I need to prune, but I just can’t seem to let my babies go. And I actually don’t think I will for a while.
One reason is that if I keep them all alive then I can morph one of them into a new one without having to start from scratch. And if I do start from scratch then I can put links to the new blog on all of them and get it indexed quicker.