Manage Multiple Blogs

How to Manage Multiple Blogs

People seem impressed when I tell them that I have 100 Blogs. First they ask me why, and I tell them it’s so I can teach others, and so I can earn income. Usually they ask how I can manage them all. My answer to that seems to be “ongoing” because managing 100 blogs is “ongoing”.

I’ve shared some ways that I do this in other blog entries. As I’m working on updating a few blogs right now, I thought I would share what I’m doing while it’s “fresh” in my mind.

I haven’t updated all of my blogs to the “new look” of blogger, which is fine because everything simply transfers “as is” and most of the new blogger stuff is in the “back area”, but there are new templates and designs that I will eventually play with. For now, I just want to be sure that I add at least one post to each blog on a frequent basis. In an earlier post, I explained that each post doesn’t need to be a “novel” that requires a huge amount of time on your part, but the content must be interesting and valuable. Today I will share what I do to “rotate” my blogs to keep them “fresh”.

As a high school kid, I worked at A&W. One of my tasks was to go in the walk-in freezer and “rotate” the meat stock. The older food was placed up front to be used first. Basically that’s what I’m doing with my blogs.

When you open the design area you’ll see the back area for that blog; where you can change things up. In the upper left side you see “My Blogs”. When I click on “My Blogs” a page opens labeled “Ter Scott’s Blogs” and shows five titles. Scrolling down the page, you’ll see where it states: “View More”; click on it. Now you’ll see all of your blogs listed. (Blogger only lets you have 100 blogs). This is what’s important: the blogs you’ve worked on recently are on the top of the list, and the blogs that you’ve worked on lastly are at the bottom. If you don’t add posts to your blogs on a regular basis, they become what are referred to as “Ghost Blogs”. People find your blog, but you (the blogger) are not home! I have seen blogs with only one post, way back in 2003 or something. Hmmmm.

On a regular basis, I add a comment to one or two of the blog at the top of the list because these are the “most important” usually because they are attached to one of my websites, or used in conjunction to one of my seminars and classes. But here is the way I keep blogs “rotated”. I work on one or two at the top of the list, but then I scroll down to the bottom and add a post to the blog at the bottom. I may spend more time in the blog modifying the template, the gadgets, etc. etc. But minimally, I add one post. The next time I open blogger, that blog is now at the top, and I repeat the process.

I hope this helps you. You may not have 100 posts yet, but you may have several. This is a way to keep things rotated and fresh for your readers.

Make it a great day!

Ter

Hope this idea works for you.