Ask HN: Should I consolidate my blogs into one?

📰 Hacker News · skwee357

Hey! I've been writing 2 blogs for the past couple of years, one focused on Software Engineering and the other on general life things (e.g. philosophy, psychology, self-improvement, etc). Recently, I've created another blog focused on Entrepreneurship. At the moment, they all live on their own domains. My purpose in writing the blogs is (1) I really enjoy writing, and (2) I want to build a personal brand (all of my blogs mention my name, and each link to another). However, it's becoming hard to maintain the blogs. They each run their own instance of the software, meaning any change I make in terms of design/security fixes/SEO/etc, needs to be replicated to other blogs (where applicable). I need to keep separate contact emails per blog, and in general this setup is too complicated, thus discouraging me from writing. Moreover, building domain authority is hard, since every blog essentially starts from 0. I also own a domain for my name. It shows some about m

Published 8 Jul 2024
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