Should You Hire Someone To Write Your Blog For You?

As a serious, interested and regular blogger, you may often find yourself at a stage where you feel that you simply cannot go on writing your blog posts everyday. As a new blogger, it is almost essential to post something on your blog till you get a steady audience, but if your blog is your part time occupation, then sparing time for it everyday can become almost impossible. Coming to your rescue in such a situation can be the “hired blogger”, a ghost writer who writes your blogs for you when you do not have the time to do so.

Many people question the very idea of hiring a ghost writer for a blog, since a blog was always supposed to be your own personal “web log”.  However, since blogs today are no longer personal online diaries but a way of disseminating information and making money online, the basic premise of a blog being always your own original work does not hold water anymore. So if you feel that you do not have the time to update your blog on a regular basis or if writing is not actually your forte, then hiring a blog writer can be the best way out for you.

Once you have decided to hire a blogger, the next question that needs to be tackled is—“ Who should you hire?” While there are thousands of people available through online freelancing and job sites who will readily write your blog for you, narrowing down on what you want will help make your search easier. The first thing that your blogger will need is a command over the language that your blog is in. A blog catering to US audiences that has posts in incorrect English just doesn’t sell.  Interest in the topic is another. Your blogger should have an avid interest and a basic know-how of the theme or topic that your blog deals with. Anyone who has these two qualities is fit enough to blog for you.

You can find your “hire a blogger” on job posting sites like Craigslist, freelancing sites like Get a Freelancer, Scriptlance or on regular job sites. You can also find interested souls on forums related to your topic or you can even create a post on your own blog advertising for a wanted blogger in order to catch someone who is genuinely interested in the topic.

Before you hire someone to write for your blog, you will also need to work out how you plan to pay your blogger. You can either pay your blogger a fixed monthly payment in return for a certain number of write-ups. Or you can pay your blogger per write-up once they have been delivered to you. Many blog owners prefer a profit sharing method, where you share a certain percentage of your blog revenue with your blogger. You will be able to come up with a suitable arrangement once you chalk things out with your potential blogger.

As a new blog owner, you might not like giving out any money to anyone, even a blogger, when you yourself are not making much. However, remember that whatever you pay a blogger who works for you will be an investment that will eventually provide returns in the form of higher traffic and increasing revenues.