The Write Spot, LLC

Blog outsourcing: concentrate on writing your blog and leave the rest to the professionals

As I left for Las Vegas to attend BlogWorld Expo a few months ago, my expectations were that I’d be learning about this year’s hottest blogging trends from the gods of the blogosphere like John Chow of johnchow.com, Darren Rowse of Problogger, and Brian Clark of Copyblogger. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that everyone is going back to old school blogging techniques:

• Write good content and blog often.
• Read other blogs in your niche.
• Leave quality comments on those blogs.
• Network by commenting, guest posting, engaging your audience, and going to conferences.

Like so many things in life, it goes back to what you learned in school – to be successful and popular, follow the Golden Rule and do your best work. This is not to say that all those things that drive new bloggers crazy like analytics, monetization, hosting, design, and so on, aren’t important. They are.

If you want something done, give it to a busy person

Since my last update, I’ve signed on new clients and started new projects.

Community Moderating

I’m still a community operator at CafeMom, but have also signed on as a Mom Bloggers Club Ambassador and just started moderating the Mom Central bloggers Ning group. It’s fun networking with other women and discussing the ins and outs of mom blogging.

Glubble

However, I’m most excited to announce that I’m now the Community Moderator at the Glubble Parents Forum. Glubble is a free, online activity center for families with children 12 and under that allows parents to choose safe websites for their kids, supervise where children go online, and use social networking, photo sharing and other tools to enhance family relationships. (You can read my two reviews: Keep your kids safe online and your computer working with Glubble.com and Mommy may I? Glubble works with parents to make the Internet safe for kids.)

It’s challenging to moderate a community of parents from all over the work, but the Glubble Team are very supportive of their customers and it’s a pleasure working with them.

Blogging

I’m still posting away at my blogs and have avoided starting any more. Honestly, I’m too busy running giveaways for shoes, videos, yogurt, ice cream, cleaning products and turkeys these days. But I have added one more “place I blog at” – Rocky Mountain Moms Blog. You’ll see me there twice a month writing mom stories instead of my usual product reviews and recipes thing. I look forward to returning to where I started – blogging about motherhood. I have a Bell jar full of notes on possible topics and can’t wait to get started.