Help Me! Should I change my Blog?
I finally got a Google PageRank and it was initiated at a PageRank of 4! This actually came as I was debating whether or not to change this blog and split it up into 5 more directed blogs with the sub categories of Blogging, Finance, Running, Golfing, and Tennis. My thought is to stop this blog and change it’s name completely and write about each topic at a new blog. It would require a lot of redirects and a lot of transferring of data but it might be worth it.
As of right now my stats are about 40 unique visitors a day with an average of 28 subscribers a day via rss feeds. Not sure how many of those rss’ers read my text but the feeds are downloaded. These aren’t great stats and my blogging hasn’t become as consistent.
I guess I am unsure if my blogging has been helpful with this mosh pit of information. These are my options. Let me know what you think is a good idea.
1. Change just my blog name (essentially a title tag change not that big) - I like “Blogging on Empty” or “Running on Empty,” the reason for the change is because I don’t think the name lends itself to much modesty. Some people might get the wrong idea behind what I’m trying to get across.
2. Change just the name and URL - I registered BloggingOnEmpty.com and I think it conveys the fact that I’m trying to blog while doing all this other stuff and holding a full time job. Maybe I can give it as a show you how type of blog.
3. Slowly phase out this blog by switchting all writing about blogging, domaining, and site building to bloggingonempty.com and then start 4 other blogs about running, finance, golfing, and tennis. That way I could use my PageRank of 4 but I would loose all that valuable content were I to ever switch to my new sites completely. I guess I could transfer the content to the appropriate sites if I wanted to once this is done?….
I kind of like the last idea. That way I use my blog to change the url and the direction of it without loosing all the hardwork and links that I’ve built up so far. This might work. It would mean that I would have to essentially maintain 8 blogs at once but that might be a fun challenge. I don’t write daily at Sprint Rants and this one would be phased out in about 5 months so I would essentially have 6 full time blogs with the 5 mentioned here plus myHawaii activities site.
Let me know what you all think, those of you that consistently read my blog or are just dropping by. Leave a comment and direct me please.
Thanks guys.
Erik