Here is a small confession from yours truly: apart from Jaxon’s Review, I run three other paid domain blogs and at least two active blogs on the Blogger free blog platform. So, all in all I’ve got six active blogs catering for various topics although not necessarily specific niches, except for two of the blogs.

Blogging is hard work

On my productive days I would blog on all six simultaneously but it’s not everyday that I would be able to do that. Not even every week, I can tell you. So most of the time I blog on any two of the blogs daily and try not to miss a post for more than four days on each of the blog.

Do you run multiple blogs?

I know of several bloggers who are doing the same — maintaining a mix of paid and free blogging platforms. Being such a blogger myself, I can quite understand the reasons for doing so.

Firstly, most of us started blogging using the free platform and have become so attached to our first blog that we keep on maintaining that blog even after we have created a paid domain blog.

Secondly, it has something got to do with the obsession to niches. We want explore and experiment with various niches and what more cost-effective ways to do that than blogging on Blogger, Wordpress.com and the likes?

One of the best things about free blogging platforms is that you can create as many blogs as you please without having to worry about the cost. All you need to do is to register the blog in not more than three simple steps and tadaa, you have a blog.

A matter of pride

As for me, it’s a matter of pride to have a paid domain blog — one I can call my own.

When I mentioned to a friend about my paid domain blogs and how I spent hundreds of ringgit to pay for the domain names and the webhost, he — stopping short of calling me stupid — he asked me why the need for paid domain blogs when I could create as many blogs on the free blogging platform in just a matter of minutes.

I told him it’s a matter of pride; of being able to say that those blogs are really mine. It’s a matter of choice, really.

Still, I couldn’t help but wish that some of my favourite bloggers would switch to paid domain blogs eventually and not riding on the free blogging platform in perpetuity.

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