Life with MS and Mcafeed?
I have these two other blogs (well, actually, there are about five blogs in total) that really just do not have enough volume to be a stand-alone-blog. Specifically I am talking about McAfeed, where generally I am calling out businesses with poor customer service or just dumb things that the business has as a policy for whatever reason, and the recent born My Life with MS. The volume is lacking in both what I have to post and the readership/followers available to both of them.
My question, and the reason I am spending the time to make a post here, is should I roll them up here in Mephistos, which is already such a catch-all kind of blog? I am wondering, because as most of you are aware, the varied nature of this blog makes it very hard to push things like SEO aggressively. In fact, the very idea behind doing those two blogs as stand alone concepts was so the things like SEO and eventually making money from them would be so much easier to do. After all, I have, with decent success spun off most my thoughts about medieval reenacting and farm life to other blogs (granted of late, my postings have been light on those two). You will see categories/menus that pertain to those here, but most of those things have been covered elsewhere now and it mostly old stuff that you are apt to find here.
If I rolled those to blogs into this one, there would be new categories/menus for those items and they would still get the occasional posting, about as sporadic they currently occur. Reality is reality, and I just don’t have something say about my MS on a weekly basis, much less daily. Similarly, while there are times I feel that I get horrible customer service multiple times a day, most of the time, the occurrences that make me want to actually spend the time writing about something are several weeks in between. And as we all know, without some sort of consistency in the postings going up, people who follow on a regular basis are hard to build up and even harder to retain.
But the fundamental questions are these? Does that dilute the topics currently and regularly brought forward here on Mephistos too much? Does the already hit SEO problem become even worse if that is done, or is my take of posting about “what I want when I want” already have that at the limit and followers come here through mostly other means anyway?
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I think rolling them all into one is great idea. I had an "original" blog, or where I started and I could keep up, but it wasn't what I wanted nor could fit into what I am doing now. But there was stuff that could fit, so I redirected those and moved them to my newest site and linked my newest site all over there for traffic and back links type of stuff. So I can still update over there and some old traffic will come to be new traffic for my new site. But a catch all type of site is super easy actually to organize and very beneficial in the long run. Just my two cents though - I am NO pro LOL!!!! By the way thanks for commenting and visiting my site - much appreciated!!!!
Thanks for the opinion, much appreciated. I am pretty sure that is what I am going to do with the two blogs. I am not completely sure yet on the newer one, but Mcafeed is just until I have the time to roll it over here. And yeah, I am not a pro either. I mostly just enjoy spitting on what I like talking about. Like a blog a good deal, will be visiting somewhat often to catch up.
John, that is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about doing with them. Appreciate the input.
You could 301 those domains to their corresponding category pages on this blog. If you only update them once a month or so, it sounds like they might actually benefit more from the traffic to this blog, and it'd make this one that much more active.
Quick follow up: I have moved ahead with this roll up of the two smaller less active blogs into this one as a categories. I have one other blog that I am considering doing the same with, but have yet to decide. Thanks for suggestions.
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