Effects of merging multiple blogs ?

I need some help.

I have more than 2 blogs and I find it difficult to handle them. Would it be okay if I merged these blogs into say 2 blog with a broader focus . Would this merged content in 2 blogs be considered duplicate content ? Because the old blogs would still be in the google cache . Right ? Would my new blogs be considered blogs with copied content .

Thanks

 

Right, you gonna have duplicate content issue.
Is that all you want to get answer for?

 

yes



Thanks .

actually i merged my second blog into first and after some time my first blog crashed into greybar pagerank even though I had produced unique content after merging . I though that merging of blog might be the only reason .

Can you suggest a way out of this please because it took me a lot of time to build those blogs .

 

Looks like you have mess things out there.

Have you done any permanent 301 redirection?

Things can get normal within 1-2 weeks time after 301 redirect.

If you feel 301 is a big headache, then you should drop the merging process.

 

I have backed up all the blogs and then deleted them,sent a cache removal request to google. If the traces of my blog are removed by google then may be i will repost the content. But I do not think that is going to happen.

 

If both of your blogs have the same visitors, you did it true. But if the visitors were different, i think you shouldn't delete one of them because now you are loosing some of your visitors.
I think it would be better if you redirect one of your blogs to the other one. In this case you didn't lost your visitors.

 

Oh my! my hosted blog has same articles with my free hosted blog I didnt redirect the free one to the hosted one. So which will appear duplicate the hosted or the free? The free blog is older though.