Madison, Medicine, and Efficiency: One Blog on Multiple Topics, or Multiple Blogs on Single Topics?
I was inspired to make some updates on the blog after watching Michael Hyatt's presentation about blogging.
He is the CEO of one of the major publishing companies , and has effectively been blogging since the late 90s.
What I did - updated some of the old posts , including embedding videos directly , clarifying the titles & adding tags to the older posts . Posterous did not allow tags early on. I also added google analytics , we'll see if that helps any of the blog's googlejuice (as explained in the book What Would Google Do?) .
I have been thinking about splitting off into 3 separate blogs, for the 3 main topics that I blog about: Madison , Medicine , and Efficiency . Michael Hyatt & Jay Parkinson keep all of their posts together, even if there is not exactly one common theme, but many themes. Other successful bloggers such as Joshua Schwimmer (from KidneyNotes , EfficientMD , TechMedicine ) successfully run multiple blogs.
The advantage of having a single blog is the ease in continuing to post, and the simplicity in posting. The advantage of multiple blogs would be more focused posts, with a unified theme and more relevance to the individual reader. Google could find my posts easier, and deem me relevant if I ran multiple focused blogs.
Thoughts?
