Fixing A Blogging Mistake
By Gerard McGarry on 3rd April 2007, filed in Announcements, Blogging. You can leave a response below. Tags: Blogging
About a year ago, I made a blogging mistake, although I didn’t realise it at the time. I started a tech-focussed blog called Interweb World.
Of course, with my interest being primarily in web design, search engine optimisation and all that malarkey, I ended up writing semi-regularly to Interweb and neglecting the blog here at Scribble Designs.
Why was this a mistake?
Several reasons:
- The tech blogging market is severely overcrowded, unless you’ve got the time to create something really special.
- Unless you’re a field leader like Darren Rowse, your money making opportunities from a tech blog are severely limited.
- The themes of Scribble and Interweb were similar, yet I was doubling the effort to build content on both blogs instead of making one really great blog.
- Because the blogs were split, I had to market both blogs as well. Double the effort for everything. Leaving comments on other blogs, building backlinks to two blogs instead of one.
It was a blog post by Raj Dash over at Performancing that made me decide to concentrate the two blogs into one. And instead of trying to make money through advertising, I’m hoping the more focussed content here will serve to solidify my experience. It’s not all about Google AdSense, don’t you know!
What this means is that I’ll be slightly redesigning the Scribble Designs site to reflect the kind of work I’ve been doing for the last few years. I’ll be sharing my experiences of things that have worked for me in the past and things that haven’t. And, like my heroes over at SEOmoz, I’ll probably share a little more information than is commercially viable for a web designer!
