Dumb question but need the advice

Multi topic blogs are not that bad an idea. Half the battle is getting the structure right from the get go, to help you with SEO.

You want a dedicated static PAGE for each topic. a quick few words and then with short code you can bring in the topic related posts below. pretty simple.

One thing that I have found to greatly assist with the end user experience is to place links at the bottom of each post that directly link to related topic content. Using software such as WordPress for development does "Kinda" do this... BUT it links the last and next post. These posts MAY NOT be of the same topic.

( IE you have a post on basketball, that a end user finds in the search engine. the post that YOU wrote before that was baseball related, and the post after was about soccer. - The end user came to your blog specifically for "Basketball" and the linked articles are not related by context. ) You want to ensure that you offer the end user the exact content they came to your site in the first place.

Another writing trick that I have found to be effective in regards to SEO is to write / publish your content in blocks. When you start blocking content by context ( example would be to publish 5 articles on basketball in a row, then 5 on baseball ) those articles will link within themselves to same context matched content.

As an example something I do for my own sites as well as my clients. I write a 2500 word article, and then will break that into 5 smaller ( 500 word ) articles. this creates the "block" of content. I then publish the 5 articles from last to first. I publish them "backwards" so that when WordPress shows the most recent, the 1st article in a series is listed first, and the 5th article is listed last.

Taking that a step further, once I have published a series of articles I go back in and link articles 2,3,4, and 5 back to article 1. So if the end user were to click on a link to article 3 as an example they could easily go and start with page 1 of the article and read all 5 pages.

Hope that Helps!

I agree. Unless you just love doing it, I would look at other avenues.

Those topics are closely related. You would not have a difficult time with this project. Blogging is not dead. Many just give up way to soon. Others may just have not had a good structured plan. it is a lot of work but automating and scheduling your daily work plan is the key to getting it knocked out. Like Derek Halpern (Social Triggers) says. Stop wasting all of your time creating a ton of content and focus on building subscribers and promoting your content.

Maybe 20,000 people saw it yesterday or last week or last month. But what about the next day, week, or month? Create quality content and publish it slowly. That is the key!

Good luck with your site! If you need a host and like Go-daddy. They are doing a $1.00 a month hosting sale right now. It ends sometime early in January. i prefer Blue-host But to each his or her own!

Hope this helps, have a great day!

My wife thinks I ask dumb questions, but in my opinion (to use a well-worn cliche) "the only dumb question is the one not asked."

Hey, I agree with those who recommend that you create your own products and build a subscriber list to sell your products to, and it's a good idea to do this whether you actively blog or not.

However, my opinion is that if you love to blog, and you want to blog, then I say go for it. As long as the topics are somewhat related, and you have passion for it and can sustain interest in it for the long term, you will be successful, because your passion will come through, and people will pick up on it. Do what you love, then "build it, and they will come."