You love your blog, it’s part of you, and you’ll do what’s right to keep it healthy. So why have you been ignoring it lately? You haven’t? Good!

Yes, blogs do need TLC; after all, they’re living, breathing things, right? And like all living things they need nutrition, and what’s their favorite food? Posts. So feed your blog regularly, it’s the most important thing you can do to keep your blog healthy, and it’s the most important thing you can do to keep the search engines interested in your blog.

But now, the primary reason for this post: I have more than one blog, and one thing I do to keep my blogs healthy is to keep track of what’s in each one. It’s a rather simple thing - I created a folder structure on my PC. It’s an excellent way of maintain common data in multiple blogs, and it’s common today for bloggers to have more than one blog.

The structure I’m currently using is this:

      Wordpress
          Backups
          Images
          Plugins
          Themes

I only use Wordpress for my blogs, and this structure keeps the blogs consistent in the way they work, primarily through the use of the same plugins in each.

My favorites plugins:

Akismet By Matt Mullenweg
   Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.
All in One SEO Pack By Michael Torbert
   An out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. 
Google XML Sitemaps By Arne Brachhold
   Generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog.
MightyAdsense By mightyhitter
   Keeps your adsense code & outputs it in posts.
phpBay Lite Plugin for Wordpress By Wade Wells
   Add eBay auction listings to your Wordpress posts.
Sociable By Joost de Valk.
   Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
Subscribe me By Denis de Bernardy.
   Adds a widget with feed subscription buttons.
Subscribe To Comments By Mark Jaquith.
   Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
TinyMCE Advanced By Andrew Ozz.
   Enables advanced features and plugins in TinyMCE.
WordPress Database BackupBy Austin Matzko.
   On-demand backup of your WordPress database.
WP-DBManager By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.
   Manages your Wordpress database. Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.
WP Google Analytics By Aaron D. Campbell.
   Lets you use Google Analytics to track your WordPress site statistics
[GWA] AutoResponder By pomspot.
   A plugin to add an Auto-Responder and Opt-in Mail List Builder to your blog.
Google Analytics for WordPress By oost de Valk
  This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic clickout and download tracking to your WordPress blog.

 These are the plugins, the other folders contain common data used in various blogs. Some stuff is not actually common, such as the Themes folder, which is more of a staging area before FTPing to a blog site. The Image folder also contains unique stuff and common stuff. Basically, if I use something in a blog that may be of some use in a later (or existing) blog, I stick it here.