The time is fast approaching when I am going to divest myself of some of my blogs - not the ones that have failed commercially (because I am not really making money blogging, yet) but those that I can’t see myself posting to on anything approaching a regular basis. That and I need to make the best use of the ones that remain.
I need to complete the planning, but probable implications are:
- the facibus.com/* blogs (like this one) will be transitioned to their *.com equivalents. I hinted on how this might start in The Blog Collector - BlogDotGov will move from http://facibus.com/blogdotgov to http:/blogdotgov.com and Faux Cuisine will move from http://facibus.com/fauxcuisine to http://fauxcuisine.com. This blog (Facibus On Blogging) will probably transition to http://on-blogging.com
- Some of the marginal blogs (like A Book Thing and Slikkit) will probably just get turned into parked domains - that said, a domain/blog combination with one or two posts on it is probably still worth more as a parked domain than those on parking servers like Named.com or NameDrive.com.
- Facibus Reviews will probably move from http://facibusreviews.com/blog to just plain http://facibusreviews.com
- I’ll probably sell off some of the “metablog” domain names (such as Active Domaining) to see how they go - I don’t really need the money, so I’ll probably donate it to the Smith Family’s Winter Appeal.
- I’ll record the domain-specific results in The Blog Collector - my repository of active domaining experiment notes.
- Finally, I’ll need to figure out what to do with the facibus.com domain - at a bare minimum, I’ll keep it to redirect the facibus.com/* links to http://on-blogging.com and use it for email.
The end goal is to have a set of usable helpful blogs that are worth reading and to get rid of the rest at more than the setup cost.
Anyone have any advice based on the above? I’d be glad to hear any suggestions.
Just a suggestion - why don’t you consider retaining the name Facibus and choose one blog to stay there? It’s a good unique name for branding purposes, not all blogs need to be content-named (see Little Green Footballs or Pink Tentacle) and it would help you retain your traffic.
Hi Jeri,
that would make the best sense, yes. This blog is nudging 52,000 on Technorati, Alexa rank is on the rise (but still not brilliant), and I’m getting steadily closer to making the top 100 Australian Blogs list.
In the back of my mind is that I want to have something that is saleable perhaps one day - although, that said, it makes sense to go with what works, and use this blog as a launch pad for whatever else might come my way.
As to just one blog - I’ll have to do this slowly otherwise risk withdrawal symptoms
Thank you once again for your suggestion, and for caring.
Best regards, Andrew