As you’ve probably noticed, the number of posts being produced has increased in the last couple of months to between 5 and 8 a week. This has been quite a heavy load on me, as it hasn’t really allowed me to concentrate fully on other things related to this blog, such as implementation of other features related to increased delivery of service, etc.

As a result of this I’ve made the decision that I’m going to have to scale back on the number of posts that I produce. I do, of course, encourage people to submit guest-posts: -

How do I go about sending in a guest-post?

Submitting guest posts isn’t as simple as jotting down the post on a text file or Word document and emailing it “as is”. You see I, and any other blogger for that matter, would ask that if you want me to publish your work on my blog, you make things as easy as possible for me: -

That entails setting your article out as a web-page, as you’d like to see it published on this blog. When you’ve done that, save the web – page in html format, in an htm or html file, and send it, along with any images (.gif, .jpg, .png) and a text-only copy also, plus a very short 150-or-less-word-biography of the author, to guestpost at kustomkomputa dot co dot uk.

I don’t promise to publish it, and even if I do I don’t promise to publish it exactly as you’ve laid it out; but I’ll keep it as true to the original as I can.

The benefits of guest-posting

The last time I asked for guest-posts I did so by making the matter into a form of competition: The result of that was that I initially had a few guest-posts submitted, about half were published, and then the whole idea fell flat on its face, and nobody bothered sending in any more.

People; guest-posting is a great way of getting recognised and being heard: It goes toward becoming established as an authority in your field of expertise, and not only that but you’ll also get a link back to your own blog plus some free internet real-estate. – So if you’re a techie-type with your own particular tech-page or blog it’s an unbelievably good way of spreading the word, increasing your blog-traffic, and promoting your brand.

In other words you’re not just helping me out by writing content for my blog, but you’re also helping yourself out by advertising yourself, your brand, and your blog.

So the immediate future is that I’ll be producing less free-content for the time-being. Of course I’ll still produce some, but not as much as I have recently been producing. I’m not going to be sitting on my bum playing games or doing any less than I was before. I’ll be doing more work behind the scenes and less actually free-content-wise.

On my tod

I’m only a single person: I don’t have an entire team dedicated to running and maintaining this blog. Apart from the odd guest-post that I publish, I do everything single-handedly: The coding, maintenance, design, production, publication, the lot; it’s all done by Yours Truly. When I finally get the resources I’ll start outsourcing; but in the meantime I’m all on my tod.

Bearing that in mind I need to get to a point where this blog becomes a self-financing operation. I’ve been running at a loss to this point in time, and that’s something that can’t continue indefinitely. In fact it’s something that can’t continue period. I’m going to have to spend a lot of time behind the scenes to generate revenue from this blog. if you thought my banner-ads pay for it then you’re very much mistaken: At best they assist towards financing it.

I’m currently on David Risley’s BlogMasters Club course, (Click the BlogMasters Club banner in the footer of this and all other pages and posts for more.) on which I’m learning from square 1 how to generate an income from blogging, rather than running at a loss as I have been doing during my first year of blogging. I am learning, and I have so much to implement, but if I put all of my efforts to creation of free content then I’ll lag behind and continue running at a loss.

Conclusion

So while I’m easing off the posting, you have an increased opportunity to get yourself heard, to promote your brand and image, to become known as an authority, to advertise your blog and increase your traffic; all by guest-posting.

I currently have between one and two-hundred visitors a day, and, at the time of writing, this blog ranks 560,261 out of X-billion on Quantcast.

So get with it: I look forward to reading and publishing your tech-postings. If you don’t send any in then don’t be at all surprised if you see the number of new free-posts published drop from this point onwards.

‘Any questions, points, whatever? – Please comment.

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