I have some blogs on Blogger.com that I have let lie dormant in recent years, since discovering Steem and then Hive. I had hopes that I could somehow use my domains on Hive, but no good solution ever cropped up. I tried Engrave for a while, which lets you use a custom domain. But I found it rather rigid. And it still doesn't solve the problem of multiple front-ends. What you post on Engrave also comes out on Hive. Having your blog posts show up on multiple front-ends means that none of them is canonical for the search engines. This is not an issue when your blog post is only visible on one single website.
I have tinkered around with posting links from my blog on Blogger to posts on Hive. There is a Blogger feature in which you can link the post title to another web page. You have to enable Title and Enclosure Links in the settings to do this. When visitors click on the blog post title on Blogger, it directs them to my Hive post instead of loading the blurb post. If a reader somehow lands on the blurb, I have a link that directs them to click on the link to read the full post.
For reference, you can check out my blog at shainemata.net to see how blurb posts link back to my Hive posts. And here is a link to one of the blurb posts.
It is necessary to write a unique blurb on Blogger and then link to the full blog post on Hive. This way Google will index the blurb as a unique post and also give the full Hive post a bit more ranking. Gemini does suggest using the same front-end for consistency. It's up to you which front end you prefer to represent your work. But, you can also choose to link to different front ends. It will merely spread out the authority from your Blogger blog.
This process gives new life to my Blogger account, which was just sitting around doing nothing. But it also has other side benefits. One benefit is that you can earn from both Google Adsense and Hive. Second, if you feel restricted by the limits on daily posts on Hive, you can always post directly on Blogger to avoid the whole downvote drama. But if you are especially prolific as a writer, you could post on Hive, Blurt, and Steem, linking to all three from Blogger.
Blogger has other advantages such as free hosting and being low maintenance. Unlike hosting my own Wordpress blog in which I spent so much time tweaking themes and installing updates, Blogger doesn't have any of that.
I expect that there will be some concern about not owning your blog. But I've had my Blogger account since 2004 without incident. You have to be a complete ass to violate their terms of service. And even if Google decided to shut down my Blogger account, my posts are being hosted on Hive.
I suppose the core issue is, do you want to be ranked on Google? Each of your Hive front end blogs ranks, but none stand out as the content is not unique on any of them. If you want your Ecency blog to stand out, or whatever front end you prefer, then linking from Blogger can help those posts with a little boost from sharing your Blogger authority with them. Otherwise, there is very little value in adding the extra steps to your blog posting workflow.
I suppose the only other advantage to the Blogger feature is that you can centralize your web presence across multiple platforms from one blog. If I have a guest post on another blog, for example, I could link to it from Blogger. There may be multiple scenarios in which title linking to another website might be useful for you. For now, I am satisfied by funneling Blogger traffic to my Hive posts.
That just made me think of another advantage, which is that all your content would have the one RSS feed coming out of Blogger. I don't know how popular RSS feeds are these days. They were a thing in the early days of blogging.
Unfortunately, increased traffic to your Hive posts doesn't generate more rewards unless the reader has a Hive account to upvote your post. The main advantage to you will be better SEO for your Hive content.
While We're Talking About Blogger
While I'm discussing Blogger, I do want to share other ideas I've had about using Blogger. Before Inleo added threads and the other front-ends added their own short form content features, I had considered using my Blogger accounts for that purpose. Blogger has a mobile app that allows you to create basic posts with photos. My thinking was to use Blogger instead of Instagram or X. I'd be creating content in which I alone would earn advertising revenue.
My only hesitation was that this would not necessarily result in more traffic to the blog. On Instagram, or whatever social media platform, Hive included, you have a captive audience that can see your posts in the stream. Posting short form posts on your blog, however, does not benefit from a stream. People would have to intentionally visit your blog directly or subscribe to your RSS feed.
I'm probably going on about problems you don't have and creating new ones. This has caught my interest because I realized that I don't have to abandon my old work. It can very well integrate with the work I'm doing here on Hive.
My next endeavor is to go through my old blogs to delete posts that are no longer relevant and add 301 redirects. I didn't know I could do that with Blogger until recently. Blogger seems like a basic blogging platform, but it contains some interesting features, which makes sense considering that Google knows how their own search algorithms work. They're giving us the tools to get the most out of our blogs. I'll let you know how that goes.