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.
Note: the above was originally published on Facibus On Blogging.
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