Starting Second Blog Is A Bad Idea
There are a lot of static websites made to sell products and services. There is also other type of static websites that sells affiliate products are often found in first three top positions in search engines for most highly targeted keywords. You might notice that it is almost impossible to beat these sites as they keep on getting more backlinks each day. Usually, those who have more money can get great outsource SEO service and always keep their site above the competition level. It is because, there have been utilizing well their page to make money from their visitors.
I noticed that my blog is not really utilized on advertising section. If you have strong advertising income from your website, it will be a good motivation to invest in SEO to get more profit. Basically, I believe that doing SEO for static webpage is a lot easier compared to a blog. It is because; we may have limited number of pages to SEO for from a website. Unlike blogpost tend to get higher ranking in SERP for first few weeks of posting and will dropped to lower ranking, often called Google Honeymoon. Website pages are static and with consistent backlinks creation which will help to dominate top position in SERP ranking.
I have made a terrible move by starting a second blog. Instead, I should have started a website that offers SEO package or sell some affiliate products. For example, if you can earn $300 from your first blog, you might want to start a second blog expecting that you can make another $300 from it. In fact that was my expectation and goal to start my second blog. Trust me; it is not easy to earn $300 from a new blog. But, it is easier to increase first blog’s income from $300 to $600 with a little more effort on increasing targeted traffic and better positioning on advertising links and SERP ranking. What do you think about this?
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September 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I completely agree with you, Atniz. Focusing on a blog is much more better than try to earn big money from several blog. I do have experience like you and now, I try to manage it wisely, or else, I gain nothing or just a little money.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Great! Looks like I’m not the only one here. I am trying to spend more time on this blog, trying out plugins, etc just learning the curves again. Hopefully, can see some positive results soon.
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September 16th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
That happened to me once. :p
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Great! I’m not the only one here facing this problem then. Hopefully, other bloggers will learn about it too.
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September 16th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
In my opinion, It must create new blog if want to write in another niche. But, if the new blog have same niche with first blog, I suggest to optimize the first blog.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:11 am
I think it is a good idea too. Writing second blog in same niche give us low resources to maintain both under same niche.
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September 17th, 2009 at 7:09 am
You are right. most of the peoples wants to spend their ad revenue from a blog , to start a new blog. They dont know that it is really tough task to earn that much money from a new one. I agree with you .
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:12 am
It is a common mistake that many does and fail. There are few bloggers still able to make it but for me, I still prefer to one blog instead of starting second blog.
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September 17th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
So are you saying static websites are given preference over those with changing content like an RSS feed on the main page?
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:13 am
RSS feed on main page are not really getting good attention in SE as they represent duplicate contents. Although, the reference links provided but duplicate content still be treated as duplicate content.
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September 18th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Atniz,
Your blog is highly informative and you get good traffic for the same. However I feel that you are not making the best out of it. Sorry for this and I am honest in my words. Can I give you few suggestions to improve your earnings.
1) Blog design – Your three column design is not suitable for increasing CTRs on advertisement. So I suggest you make a good design that is capable enough to get maximum clicks on Advertisements.
2) PPC ads – Since your niche is work and home, you can earn tonns of money from PPC networks like Adsense. I see an adsense unit is running but with incorrect positioning and color.
3) Place your adsense ads (rectangle is best for me) in the hot spot of the blog.
4) You use default adsense ad color, which is a big mistake. Change the color of your ads to blend well within your blog – This can help to increase CTR upto 500%.
5) Please take advantage of link ads from adsense.
I have quite a lot suggestions for you. I do consulting for clients, but I can do free for you as I got lot of inputs from you in DP!
Thanks
Sam
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Hi Sam.
Thank you for your honest review about my blog. Frankly, I feel the same too. I just changed the color on adsense and noticed some difference too. About the template, I’m still not ready to change it yet, but soon enough will do. Currently, I’m concentrating too much on contents and link building and neglected positioning in the blog. Recently, I made some changes and it looks better in arrangement now. It doesn’t look messy as it was earlier.
Thanks again for your sincere opinion.
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September 18th, 2009 at 6:43 am
The problem with multiple blogs is it requires a lot of time and it will be very exhausting specially if you want something that will really meet the standards / goal that you want.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Exactly. Running multiple blogs is easy if we don’t bother about it’s quality. But, if we want good quality, then it takes a lot of time and time consuming.
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September 18th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Yes Atniz I think that its easy to do on page SEO of a static website. You have some set of target keywords for that. But a blog will gain page rank quickly due to content but its don’t have specific keywords as there are different posts.
Thanks
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:30 am
It’s true. Both blog and website have their advantages and disadvantages. Personally, for a business website, I strongly suggest it comes with a blog to maintain contents.
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September 18th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
It is better to promote one blog rather than making new ones.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Yes, it is. Trying to boost up the first blog is a lot easier compared to the new blog.
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September 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 am
I think they serve different purposes, a 2nd blog is valuable if it is in a separate niche like most others have commented. I do earn about $300 per month from my primary blog and only about $70 per month from my 2nd blog, almost none from my 3rd, but this will change as other blogs continue to grow and gain PageRank. Since you can’t cover too many topics on one blog, you limit yourself to what kind of advertisers you can accept with only one blog.
Then again, if you are just trying to sell an affiliate product or a product/service, a static page will get you better pagerank faster and with less work.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Congrats on your earnings. It is a good motivation if we can see some money pouring in from new blogs too. But, if we can handle multiple blogs then it is ok. I never really try on static page to sell affiliate or product sales before. Maybe, it is time to check this out too.
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September 22nd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
@Sam – Can I have free seo tips too? Haha!
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Looks like he is not replying here. Maybe, you can contact him directly on his blog.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 5:36 am
You are right Atniz, moving from 300 to 600 mark won’t be a big issues, but creating a new blog and expecting it to give you 300 per month income is a difficult task to achieve.
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September 26th, 2009 at 9:20 am
I think many will continue to add more value to their old blog instead new blog to get more income after this.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 8:30 am
As someone who has 5 or more blogs, I would advise against it. Why it’s bad is that say one blog is taking off or you get a joint-venture request you cannot dedicate yourself to that. Also you should be constantly trying out new things on your blog, designs, quizzes, polls you cant do that properly if you are spreading yourself thin.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:22 am
I agree with you. We can’t simply expand or implement new ideas if we have a lot of blogs to concentrate. Most of the time will be spend on content and backlink creation alone.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
It partly agree with you because I have several blogs and I sometimes find that I hardly ever update on some of the other blogs. This does affect the PR. However, on the positive side, all the blogs have different themes and thus I can cater to different advertisers. I have to disagree with you on one point, it is easier to maintain the PR on blogs rather than on websites.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I’m not sure whether it is true or not. Maintaining PR on a blog seems difficult for me. I have more than 30k backlinks and still show PR3. Probably, my PR leakage is too much per page or the quality of backlinks dropped.
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Adam Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
The great thing about blogs is that you can network with other bloggers and help each other. Of course you have to work on it. You do need to visit other blogs and comment on them while making regular posts on your blogs.
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Atniz Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 3:43 am
I agree with you Adam. That is the great part of blogging and that makes us all grow easily and faster compared to website.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Create new blog if want to write in another niche. But, if the new blog have same niche with first blog, I suggest to optimize the first blog.
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Sounds like a good idea to me.
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September 24th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Blogging well takes a great deal of time to begin with: creating content, networking with related sites, linkbuilding, etc… If you’re able to generate $300 from your blog, then you may have found a valuable niche worth exploiting.
I have one blog and concentrate on it. It is not intended to be a money-making effort, but that is not to say that it does not provide value. Frankly, I can’t even think about starting a second; I would have not time left in the day!
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Same goes here. I think the niche that I choose here is good as it related to blogging and seo. Although, there are other high paying niche, still it is not too bad to earn writing something that we love.
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September 25th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
yea.. i always hear that we should make more than 1 blog so that our income can increase. But,i don’t do that tedious idea… Maintaining 1 blog is kinda’ tedious enough for me..
=)
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Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I agree with you. I have heard that too from many bloggers. It is not easy actually to start a new blog and make it successful.
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Yups, that is true SIS and I have make more than 3 blog. but I think to much is not good because we much look very much link and post….
but if all of our blog is became good it can make us get much money………
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Atniz Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 6:10 am
It is good to see if all our blog makes good sum of money. But, it takes a lot of time to manage with contents and backlinks for all blogs.
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Worthy post. Actually, I’ve planned to make new blog to increase my earn because my recently blog is very low to earn money. After read your post, I think is not good idea to make new. First, it’ll make me unfocused on my recent blog to post. Second, of course it’s not easy as my imagine to take equal earn with my first blog even not big earn
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Atniz Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 6:20 am
There are many new ways to improve on our current blog. Personally, I don’t really optimize this blog to earn more money yet. So, it is good to well optimize a blog first with contents, backlinks, ranking, design, etc and start earning some extra money instead trying out something new and build from zero.
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October 7th, 2009 at 6:01 am
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October 19th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Hi Atniz, I just had one personal blog so far and it is not managed professionally. I plan to start a new blog in finance niche in near months. I still recommendations. Don’t you think it is worth-trying? Thank you.
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Atniz Reply:
January 1st, 2010 at 5:50 am
Hi Yasinta. I suggest you to concentrate and learn more using one blog. If you have seen success, then you can follow the footsteps to start the second or third. Trust me, finance niche is one of highest paying niche when it comes to advertisers but the competition is high too.
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December 19th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Maybe, but supposed you have a blog linked with your several blog where you got a link as well as references what do you think?
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Atniz Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
It helps but Google aware of this. They don’t give credit to interlinked blog in same IP or hosted blogs. Interlinking can be limited to 5 blogs but large numbers tend to get some penalty too.
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