By: Melanie Blodgett Photo by: Chelsey Andrews
One of the concerns I hear from students considering
contributing is that they’re afraid they’ll give
up some great content for the contributing position and their blog will
suffer. I get it, coming up with topics to blog about is half the battle and
you don’t want your best posts to end up on somebody else’s site. You ultimately
want your best content to be drawing traffic to your blog by being published on
your site. A completely valid concern. Here’s my advice:
Apply for contributor positions that cover topics that you’re
not currently blogging about on your site.
For instance, on my blog I mostly cover party and diy ideas but
obviously those are not the only topics I’m interested in or knowledgeable
about. I also enjoy writing about being a new mom but I didn’t think my already
established blog was a good avenue to do so. So I looked for contributing
positions in the mom category and found one where I can share all things kiddo
and I get to gush about my son without driving away readers who are coming to
my site for what it already offered.
Make sense? This way your blog and your contributor position
aren’t competing for content and you can just blog away to your heart’s
content.
