What You Should Know About Running Multiple Blogs

What You Should Know About Running Multiple Blogs

At some point in your blogging career, there will come a time when you will have to choose between running multiple blogs and a single blog. This decision is however, not an easy one to take. There are advantages and disadvantages for both sides. Let's discuss it first from the point of view of advantages.

Advantages of Running Multiple Blogs:

1. Leverage Your Income

If you're like me, you rely mainly on blogs for your primary source of income! As such, the more blogs you are able to create, the fatter would be your paycheck! Let's put an example: if one blog earns you $200 per month, running 10 blogs will earn you over $2000 per month! Can you imagine how much you could earn if you had 100 blogs?

2. Better Influence

A blog represents your online presence. For some people it is not the monetary gains which motivate them to write blogs; rather, it is the kind of exposure, the influence they would have is what makes them interested.

Take the case of one of my friends; he doesn't care if his blog earns him any revenue or not, he just enjoys writing about ozone issues. If you are like him, you might find that the more blogs you have, the bigger would be your influence!

3. Multiple Source of Income

There is an old adage that goes like: "never put all your eggs in one basket". This rings true for blogs as well. By having multiple blogs you will feel safe and won't gave to worry if anything bad happens with one of your blogs, since you have other sources of income!

Now that we have discussed 3 popular advantages of running multiple blogs, let's discuss the disadvantages as well.

Disadvantages of Running Multiple Blogs:

1. Limited Time

If you are working 8 hours a day just like me, you might find it difficult to write posts for 100 blogs regularly. The maintenance issue should become your primary consideration here. Yes, there are softwares which can help you by automating this part, but to some degree you will still hold the main responsibility for the content of your blogs.

2. Getting Burnt Out

Unless you are a very talented writer, writing for multiple subjects can make you run out of fresh ideas very quickly. In this case you might want to write only on one or two topics that you know very well, rather than writing on 100 different subjects you know nothing about!

3. Quality Issue

Running multiple blogs means dividing your attention among multiple projects. This can result in the decrease in quality of your blog's content. You might want to focus on writing 1 or 2 articles rather than scribbling 100 posts. After all it is the quality of your blog's content which matters at the end of the day!