As many of you know, I’m a part time web publisher. I run websites, forums and blog all in the time I have outside of a 40 hour work week. This schedule leads me to force myself to get work done on the weekend as well as during the week. One of the main things I was working on last week was a guest post for a fairly big blogger. I’ll let you know who if I don’t see it posted soon. I submitted the post on Friday and think that it is just as good or better than some of the other guest posts on the blog (yes I suppose I’m bias). But the thing is you’ll never know if the time you spent working on a guest post will pay off.

What I’ve learned last week is that you should never let the work you spend on a guest post affect the posting frequency on your own blog. I didn’t post as much as I should have last week and it was because of the time I spent working on the guest post that may or may not even get onto the site. Even if the guest post makes it onto the site, I still should not have let the time I spent on the guest post affect the time I spent on my own blog. What I plan to do next time I work on a guest post is make sure I have posts already completed and ready to publish on my own blog before I take on the task of writing a guest post.