I have three blogs. Call them my children...

My First - A free blog on Wordpress.com called Real Real Estate in CT. I started it just to get my feet wet because I wasn't sure I would be able to commit to blogging.  A year and a half later, I have a page rank on 5 on Google which isn't bad since when I started, I didn't even know what page rank was and how badly I needed to have it.  Being the first - I made a lot of mistakes and wasn't very good at blogging, or at least the business of blogging.

The Middle Child - the Active Rain Blog.  Up until recently, I haven't made a commitment to Active Rain.  Frankly, learning about blogging, writing, selling real estate and the whole personal life made it difficult to spend a lot of time on Active Rain.  Plus, I still can't figure out how to get the most out of Localism...

The Baby - My new blog at CTRealEstateUnleashed.com is the combination of two loves - real estate and helping find homes for homeless pets.  To me, my last attempt  at blog parenting is near perfect.  I thought about this blog for months and have spent just as much time tweaking it.  I just went live about a week or so ago and have been slowly incorporating it into my marketing.

At this time, my first blog is stagnant.  It is only up until the folks at the Real Estate Tomato can help me figure out how to do a redirect to the new site, which Wordpress has made difficult. 

So for now, the first blog continues to get all the traffic (as far as my non-AR blogs go) while my new blog struggles to find its footing.  Typical over-achieving firstborn.

Meanwhile, my neglected middle blog gets top billing.  When you search my name on Google, my little blog on ActiveRain comes up #1 even though I am not a regular.  I guess that's the power of ActiveRain -something that would be hard to replicate on my own.

I originally intended the Active Rain blog to be more of an agent-to-agent blog, while writing mostly for the consumer on my other blog.  But this doesn't seem to make sense since Active Rain has so much clout.

All my blogs link to each other - I have my AR button displayed and I link from AR to my new blog in every post. And I modified my AR blog to have a theme similar to that of my non-AR blog. But I'm not sure my blogs are there for each other - if you know what I mean.

How do I get my blogs to get along and act like a family? After all...

"A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln

Do I develop totally unique content for each blog? Do I kind of cheat and use some of my old posts on either site (which I kind of do already but something about feels disengenuous)? 

I'm working on an answer and I'll let you know.

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