... some of them anyway ... of importing Shifting Fog and Cronewyze over here and just using tags to identify those posts. But would the comments get imported too or would I lose them? And what woud I do about my luvverly visuals which I love so much (particularly the Cronewyze one)? Maybe leave them there with a note and a link?
I dunno — I just have a notion that I'm too fragmented and I'd like to integrate my aspects into more of one whole. I'm speaking of my online personae: don't feel divided into separate parts in real life; they're all me. (But who knows, maybe the expression does creep into and affect the reality?)
Oddly enough I feel no such urge re the poetry blogs. They are all working fine as they are, and can stay that way.
But would it be too much trouble anyhow? Would I do better to make more visible links each to each on the respective home pages? As I have begun to do, starting here (look left).
I guess I really think I'd get more readers if the stuff was all in one place. Not so many people know about those other two blogs. I made them separate with some idea it would be helpful to potential readers. They are not just personal rambles like this blog; they share actual knowledge and experience which could, I thought, be useful to others. (I have even had people begging me to mentor them in the Cronewyze stuff.) Therefore I thought I'd make the material easier to find. Doesn't seem to be working.
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hm, wordpress can merge. http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite
ReplyDeleteblogspot can into one new blog, or chunk by chunk into a pre-existing.
http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/12/your-blog-your-data.html#!/2008/12/your-blog-your-data.html
this says when you import, the comments move as well. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97416
Thanks for the research, Pearl. I must have done something wrong, as the comment didn't move too. And although it was easy, there were unforeseen complications (see next post). Glad I tried it though, and learnt some things by doing ao.
DeleteI didn't even know about Cronewyze! I don't know what will happen re. comments etc. if you merge everything, but I do know that when I bought my domain name and put everything in the same place, I found it much easier to manage. I - like you - had been feeling somewhat fragmented and it was really nice to centralise everything. On the other hand, I did lose quite a lot of readers (although that could have been because I also stopped posting as frequently and got worse at keeping up with my reading!)
ReplyDeleteAnother solution might be to set up a new site with tabs that link back to your existing ones - like a front page that will take you to all the other 'pages'.
Thanks, Jenny. I have ended up almost doing as you suggest, but including the links here instead of creating a new site.
DeleteI don't read you at your new 'home' as often as I used to. That's mainly because I don't read anyone as often as I used to! But maybe the new place is a little TOO beautiful. I enjoyed the sense of kicking off my shoes and settling into the sofa in your Living Room. :)