Last Updated on February 19, 2022
Several of you suggested guest blogging as a topic you’d like to talk about at #Bloggab, so this week, that’ll be our focus.
#Bloggab is a weekly Twitter chat about personal blogging. Join us each Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET. You can always find transcripts of past editions here.
Normally, the second Tuesday of the month is Open Mic at #Bloggab. But last month, since both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve fell on Tuesdays, we had both of those nights as Open Mic. So this week, we’ll skip Open Mic and focus on the topic of Guest Blogging.
I have a whopping total of one guest post in my blog’s 10-year history.
It was written by Thomas Frank, when I asked Thomas Frank, creator of College Info Geek, to write a post about WordPress and ways to improve your blog. Thomas, you may recall, was also a guest on #Bloggab last year.
I’ve written one guest post, a commemoration of the first anniversary of AOL’s now-defunct blogging platform which was known as AOL Journals, or “J-Land.”
It feels strange to me — and I’m trying to work through it — to have regular guest posts on a blog called “Patrick’s Place.” If readers are actually coming to a blog with my name in the title, it seems to me that they should hear from me.
Yeah, I’m probably overthinking it.
As for me not writing guest posts elsewhere, it isn’t because I’m against that idea, and I have been asked. But last year, I moved to daily posting, which is ambitious and time-consuming for someone who actually does have a full-time job (and a part-time one, for that matter) in addition to the blog itself.
If there were, say, 35 hours in the day, guest posting on other people’s blogs wouldn’t be as much of a challenge for me.
Join us Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.
We’ll talk about the advantages of guest posts, whether you’re running one written by someone else on your blog or writing content on someone else’s. We’ll also talk about the challenges and best practices you can employ to make things run more smoothly.
It should be a great hour and I hope you can join us!
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