What’s Your Blogging Plan B?

Saturday, April 10th, 2010 at 3:00 pm

A few years ago, I took several weeks away from blogging to help out in a seasonal family business. The end result was devastating to say the least. My average income dropped to 1/3 of the norm and took me well over six months to regain my positioning and revenue.

A close friend of mine has been preparing for her vacation for a few weeks now. She realizes she’s going to be away from her blogs for two weeks and has been busy recruiting people to serve as a guest blogger in her absence.

While recruiting a guest blogger is probably the most desirable method of maintenance – the only other alternatives are advance and post dating posts or providing an announcement post that gives the date you will return.

Given the loss that I took, I’ve avoided being away from my primary blogs for more then three days.

I can’t encourage everyone enough to plan ahead, post ahead or take on guest bloggers. By all means, don’t lose out on income that’s extremely difficult at best to regain.

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