I’ve been thinking that since my blogs have tanked, I might as well move my content to DOT COMs. I have been meaning to do that but have not gotten around to it because each of my blogs, free hosted and on sub-domains, has more than a thousand posts published.

I heard that we could just import our posts to the new domains but I am such a perfectionist, I would want to take the opportunity of migrating blogs to check for dead links and images. Wooo… that would be so much work, wouldn’t it???

I don’t know if I am up to it or not or if I may give up mid way. This is also the time for me to consolidate my blogs and also revive my old niche blogs which are currently free hosted. I am thinking that by the time I am done migrating, merging and reviving, I would have about 7 blogs. I wonder if I will have the stamina to upkeep them and for how long.

What do you think? What’s the ideal number of blogs to maintain if we do not monetize them?

It is surprising what some people want for their money. Sure, I understand that people look for the most bang for their money but I read once that a guy wanted a blogger to bake a cake, take high resolution photos of it and scan them for him so that he could make a book!

A blog post, buzz and contents for a book, geddit? I think he paid $50 for that.

And then just a couple of days ago, a friend received an offer for $30 for a post and she has to refer ten friends and family members to sign up to the site. Tell me, does this sound like selling the email contacts of your friends and family? That doesn’t sound too right, if you ask me.

Some people may not mind being sent registration invitations like this but we never know what the company will do with the growing mailing list.

One word: Ridiculous!

My blog buddy found a website that is based in Singapore which matches blogs with businesses who would like to try blog advertising. Businesses, usually ecommerce sites, will place a button banner on the sidebar of the blog and the blogger will receive SG$3 for thirty days that the advertisement is live.

Placing banners like this is much like the local ad company, Nuff…nang… except that for the local company, we have to place a script on our blog at all times. The similarity is in the assignment of ads based on Page Rank, traffic and what not.

However, do they realise that SG$3 per month is too low? I don’t know, blog real estate is pretty expensive if you ask me and it’s a banner and not a text link.

The thing that amuses me is that with so many blogs scrapping bottom, they do not really reflect their true value anymore.

I read in a forum that a blogger received threats from a reader that she will be dropped from the RSS Feed reader if she published too many blog posts in a day. Oh dear, what has the world become of that a reader dictates how many posts a blogger can publish in a day?

If you have any of my blogs in your feed reader, you will notice that on some good days, I will be publishing more than ten posts in one day in a single blog. And nobody minds, luckily.

I just want to say that we should not allow others to dictate when we post, how we post and the times we post them. Why? Because it is our own blog and we are the ones paying for our hosting, you know?

So, write as many or as little as you like in a day. People would get used to it!