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There are a lot of little jobs with blogging that seem to eat up your time. The thing is a lot of them are repetitive and don’t take a lot of brain power or effort… just time.

Unfortunately time is one of your greatest assets - you should be using it to create even more killer content for your blog. Here are a few things to consider farming out so you can free up that finite resource.

Directory Submissions - probably of more and more decreasing importance, but a link is still a link. You don’t want to get too many too quickly, but a steady build up of directory links can help establish a good, long-term linking profile for your blog or site. Luckily, there are plenty of cheap guys around who will do this job very well. Remember to use a few different titles (ie. anchor text) and spread the link building out over time (the guy I use does 3000 submissions over the course of a year for $200 which is hard to beat - contact me if you want his details).

MyBlogLog Friend and Community Adding - MyBlogLog is a great little way to build your blog’s profile and readership. Just by adding interesting new people to your contact list and joining new communities you will get people interested in the topic of your blog. Of course, taking the time to find interesting new people who are possibly interested in your niche and new communities in your niche to join can be a little time-consuming (even though there is a 15 per day limit on each). It can add up if you have a few different blogs with different accounts though. It’s a fairly easy job though, so why not outsource it?

Forum Posting - You don’t want to outsource the posting as such (unless you can find someone you trust with your brand absolutely), but there are plenty of regular posters in big forums who are more than happy to rent links in their signatures for as little as $5 per month. If the forum is right and the potential traffic is well targetted, then this can be a good investment.

Blog Comments - Be careful with this one, but there are plenty of cheap writers available who will visit other blogs to comment constructively and enter your website address as that of the commenter. You want to REALLY trust whoever you get to do this one, because your brand is in their hands, but it can still be had fairly cheaply. This will help you build traffic to your own blog.

Product Reviews - I have one or two blogs that have a category for product reviews in their niche. Each of the product reviews is in exactly the same format as the others and they are easy, but time consuming to write. Now, I wouldn’t trust a hired writer to write the main content of most of my blogs, but I would happily trust them to write these product reviews for me as the template is very straight forward and quite easy. My guy charges $6 per review which is fine with me and I am very happy with them (contact me if you want their details).

The main thing about outsourcing is that it is difficult to find someone who is up to the standards you expect. To be honest I have had a few bad experiences with outsourcing. But I have also found a couple of gems in a sea of coal and they make my life a lot easier.

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