After over a month now of going backwards and forwards I have finally merged my two blogspot blogs into one.
I wasn’t sure if anyone else is struggling with the same dilemma so I thought I would share my experience and the reasons for my decision here with you all.
This blog which was actually my first blog was started when my twin daughters were born as a sort of hobby and for me to share my experiences of parenting twins with other parents of twins and multiples around the world. I had only just discovered blogging at the time and just thought it was great fun and didn’t really take it seriously at all until after a few months when I realised what a great way for me to share my sales and marketing experience and so “Simple Sales And Marketing Solutions" was born.
I have eventually found it very difficult with a full work schedule and being a hand’s on father of twins to find time for what was back then and still is very much my hobby.
I hadn’t written many articles lately for this blog for a long time and I wasn’t getting much traffic anyway, so I finally sat down as I normally do when I have to make a decision that involves changes and wrote a “for” and “against” list. When the list is finished, if there is more on the “for” side I do it and if there is more on the “against” side I don’t. It’s as simple as that.
This was my list:
Against:
1. The other blog is a business blog based dominantly around timeshare, sales and marketing techniques and the this blog is a personal blog. Would the two mix without watering down the niche I had developed on this blog?
2. Would I need to re-brand the blog and run the risk of losing traffic and starting all over again?
3. This blog was my first blog and passion so there is a certain amount of sentimental tie to this blog.
For:
1. Merging the two blogs into one makes them easier to manage and keep updated.
2. Shear lack of time meant I was posting an article every other week on alternate blogs and not really staying consistent in building a readership on either of the blogs.
3. I can post an article every week on one blog instead of spreading the articles across two blogs.
4. More articles on one blog equals more content equals better page ranking equals more traffic and hopefully a bigger following and readership? (I will monitor that and let you all know in a later post)
5. With one blog I feel I can consolidate and strengthen my personal branding on the internet? (I’ll let you know about that at a later date as well.)
As the “for” list got longer the decision was made and I have to say hats of once again to Google the process was easy, painless and couldn’t have gone any smoother.
The first step was to export the old blog to my hard disk on my computer. This was done by logging into my blogger account clicking on settings on the blog I wanted to export. Click on export and tell them where to save it on your computer.
Step two is to go to the control panel of the blog you want to import into, again click on settings, this time click import from computer and Bob’s your uncle! Over came all my old articles with all the comments as well.
You will be asked if you want to publish the posts individually or publish them all automatically on import. I chose to publish mine one by one as I wanted to check them all first and only publish what I felt would fit and compliment this blog.
Lastly I deleted the old blog so that I haven’t got a problem with duplicated articles. Google keep the old blog for ninety days just in case you have made a mistake and want to re-activate it again at a later date. You can just undelete it, import all the old articles that you saved on your hard disc back into the undeleted blog and your back to square one.
Now it’s just a matter of closely monitoring the changes and see if it was a good move or not?
Have you merged two blogs?
What have been your experiences?
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