Most have recommended against partnering.

Thanks for taking the time to give me your two cents worth. Always appreciated.

Buddy, this idea of partnership suggests that you don’t believe in your ability to make a success of this site independent of other people.

Guest posts are a great idea but with partnerships, apart from the few successful sites like Men with Pens, very few capture my attention because they lose the personal touch after a while, either that or I lose track of who I’m learning about.

Men with Pens works well because quite often I’ll be reading a guest post and they’ll refer to James as though he’s in the same office and they’re taking the piss out of him. Is that close knit environment something you’re going to be able to emulate?

If you choose the partnership path then I sure hope you do it because you don’t need the extra person but share your work with them because you can’t help but want to.

I think one thing that a lot of bloggers make a mistake with, including myself, is blogging about a topic different than the services they plan to sell. Blogging about travel when you are trying to sell graphic design services doesn’t really make sense. Focus on your business and you will get the traffic. The problem is that you have to choose one thing the focus on. That is always difficult. I still haven’t been able to narrow my focus because I enjoy these topics too much.
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I think they told us to post two to three times a day of getting in good with the search engines. Normally when you update your blog more regularly the Google crawlers will come back more often to index that new content.

I think I’m pretty much settled on once or twice a week on my own blog and a guest post every two weeks. This will give me time to actually practice and study different aspects of lifestyle design and personal development before writing about them.

I cut down from 3 posts a week to 2 and am thinking of reducing to 1. Why did they tell us we should post 2 or 3 times a day. I think they were taking the piss and the joke was on us. Glad we’re all wising up to it now:)

Oh and very glad you are back on form:)

I’ve made it for myself: I will no longer partner with anyone where my main source of income is concerned. Doesn’t work for me. I’ve tried it several times.
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You will know better than anybody. Inner guidance trumps all. Other’s suggestions can be helpful but only you know what you truly want. I’ve made many life changing decisions after spending 30 minutes in a quiet room. The chatter of the thinking mind – old thought habits that are driven by indecisions, failure, and other past ideas – distorts a vision. I’d sit down in silence after I first wake, let my mind clear, than ask myself your question. The answer will reveal itself, if not after your session, sometime soon. It always does.

Whatever road you pursue, just don’t give up. You’ve done some great stuff here and I’ve enjoyed collaborating with you and brainstorming with you. I may actually write another post for you as a case study on how to overhaul your blog
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