The last few weeks have been very difficult for me and the network. Our regular blogger for Laptop Blog is out action for the last 6 months and what I understand is that she will not be able to return for another 6 months. Our lead blogger of Sports37 was also out of action for the last 2 months. So, their absence put real pressure on the remaining 3 bloggers and it was times physically and emotionally very tough for me as I have been also suffering from sickness for quite long time.

Fortunately, today, our blogger for Sports37 has come back and we have got a new blogger too. So, things are again back to business as usual.

The most difficult challenge in maintaining a small blog network is controlling the bloggers. What if someone is putting spam content in his/her blog? What if one blogger is willingly or unknowingly doing something that may bring the wrath of Google on the entire network.

Another problem of managing such a network is to find enough people at the time of a major events taking place. For example, this week, Apple is perhaps going to unveil its iSlate Tablet. This is a major event and we want to cover it in our Laptop blog. However, if 3 of us work for it then our other blogs will not be updated regularly this week.

When you have a small blog network then dealing with advertisers is a problem because except Adsense most other major online advertisers are not interested about your websites.

In future, I would like to write about dealing with these challenges.

Another helpful thing about having a small blog network is that you can show your combined traffic to advertisers. Well, we still do not do that as our traffic is not that big. If our traffic reaches to a sizeable level then it is helpful.

The main benefit that I can find is that we can write on various topics. I enjoy writing on more than one topics. So, if I want then I can write on laptop, business, movie and sports. I enjoy writing on different topics. Another great benefit is that when you have more than one bloggers then you can focus on your area of interest.

For example, I personally like writing about business and I love to write in Asianbiz and South Asia Blog. On the other hand, Sahar Tadayyon has engineering background and she is comfortable writing about technology and she only writes in our laptop blog. Biplob Kishore Deb is mad about sports and he writes in Sports37 blog. Mehdi Hassan is a fan of movies and entertainment industry and he can write about it. Thus, we can complement each others skills.

There are some disadvantages too of having a small blog network. In the next entry, I will write about it.

Life is like this. You cannot expect every day or week to be good. There are some bad days and months and I am passing a bad spell of time. I wish I could get over the frustration.