What Bloggers Can Outsource To Save Their Time? – An Outsourcing Guide For Bloggers

by Charles Borromeo on March 29, 2011 · 27 comments

This is a guest post by Charles Borromeo from Justice-Explained and he likes writing as well as blogging. In this post, he tells us what are the things we as a blogger can outsource to freelancers in case our blog is growing rapidly or we don’t have much time to manage all the aspects to run a successful blog.

Once your blog has reached a certain maturity and a certain income level there will be a time where it might be difficult for you to handle the whole workload.

This is where it might be important that you consider outsourcing some of your work. Although some bloggers may not be keen to delegate the blog posting part as this is the cornerstone of their success, there are some tasks that you might be interested to outsource. This is what we will be covering in this article.

Design Aspect

This is perhaps the first thing that you will want to outsource. Most bloggers at the beginning will want to control everything whether it is the design, the posting and the blog maintenance but things will have to change once you start to grow. Given the number of designers that are available all over the web, you should not have problems finding someone to help you manage the design aspect of your blog. freelancer.com and vWorker.com are example of some great places where you could find gifted designers.

Blog Maintenance

Maintaining a blog where you receive hundreds of visitors is not the same as handling one that received thousands of visitors daily. You will have to care about the hosting, bandwidth, database maintenance and security aspects of your blog if you want everything to go smoothly. One alternative will be to leave the blog maintenance in the hands of the ones who design your blog in the first place but you will have to be prepared to pay a monthly fee. However this will allow you to focus on your primary assignment, i.e. blogging.

Blog Promotion

This is another aspect of blogging that can be time-consuming. You may have the best content but if you do not promote it properly then you may have very little traffic. Article submission, blog commenting and link building are all tasks that can take up a lot of time for bloggers. Places such as Freelancer.com and Elance are filled with service providers that will offer you these services for a reasonable fee. Additionally you might also want to take a look at the marketplace of the big webmaster’s forums such as Digital Point Forums where you can find affordable service providers.

Advertising Management

In the case of big blogs then you might need someone to take care of managing your advertising space on your blog. It is true that most bloggers will start with Google Adsense or some other affiliate banners, but after some time you might find it more lucrative to deal directly with your stakeholders. This is where you might want to have someone that will take care of managing your advertising slots. This will provide you with some free time to devise plans to grow your blog.

Piece of Advice

Before you begin to outsource you might want to create a budget. Indeed it may be quite tempting to delegate most of your work but this can place significant pressure on your finance.

Make sure therefore that you make a specific budget and stick to it. It is also important that you have some measures of control in place to ensure that your outsourcing effort is truly worthwhile.

These four areas listed above are perhaps the most easy task to outsource when a blog begin to grow up. The only thing that will be left will obviously be the posting task and this is perhaps one of the most difficult things to outsource. However there are some bloggers that have successfully managed to outsource this part of their blog as well and may be you can consider this at a later stage.

If you are outsourcing some part of your blog then do let us know what you are outsourcing? Have you ever faced any difficulty while outsourcing the work for your blog to a freelancer? Do you also have some piece of advice to share with us while outsourcing as a blogger? Do let us know by commenting below…


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Charles Borromeo is the writer behind Justice-Explained.com, a site devoted to explain legal questions in layman's terms. He is also a passionate blogger during his free time.

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Smith March 30, 2011 at 4:45 am

Thanks a ton Charles for this great write up…In my opinion this post is a gift for bloggers because bloggers can easily save a lot of time and effort by using these suggestions or tips …very useful post

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Basam from fantastic sams March 30, 2011 at 10:37 am

You have explained the anatomy of blog management. Some bloggers fail to manage their blog as they have no managing ability. It is good to out source some of your work to bring your blog at high standard.

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Art from Heart Internet Review March 30, 2011 at 7:16 pm

I’m too much of a control freak to outsource, but I’m considering it because I just don’t have enough time. Thanks for the tips!

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Jasmine March 30, 2011 at 7:45 pm

Outsourcing is certainly the way to go when we have too much work on hand. I may want to go this way also… currently my workload is taking a lot out of me. Thank you for sharing your outsourcing tips.
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Blog Gossiper March 31, 2011 at 2:55 pm

It has become quite obvious now that, anyone who is into blogging seriously with the aim of generating authority needs to start considering outsourcing aspects of their blog and I think this post deals with the topic in detail.
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Guozeju March 31, 2011 at 7:13 pm

By now, I haven’t outsourced my blog work, because my blog is not a big one. :)
I think among the outsource items, blog maintenance and promotion are the most important. Blog Maintenance is to make sure the blog is running stably, and Blog Promotion is to make the blog keey active and shining.
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György Klepárj March 31, 2011 at 8:18 pm

Good advices for bloggers, but outsourcing means some investment of money. Big bloggers they don’t need to invest, because they are the biggest. Small bloggers they don’t need to do this, because they always will find theirs readers. That’s it :)
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Lakhyajyoti April 1, 2011 at 11:22 pm

Charles,it is great post from you.I have not outsourced my blog work yet.But now it becomes difficult for me to maintain all the tasks.
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Arno April 2, 2011 at 3:03 pm

Maintaining my blog is not a problem for me. Because I have planned everything beforehand. When you can not manage your blog, how can you be successful in everyday life? I mean time and work-management.

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Sourish April 3, 2011 at 12:50 am

big bloggers like amit bhawani has grown up to build their blogs and expand them . now they have teams to work . pure management skills. im yet to learn this outsourcing stuff
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TechJ April 3, 2011 at 11:14 am

Hi…I only outsourced the SEO ..because everyone is not an seo expert.
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michal April 4, 2011 at 5:23 am

Normally I have read on many blogs that some bloggers outsource the projects of contents writing and also commenting reading and approving them.These projects are posted on freelancing sites.

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Sourish April 5, 2011 at 3:25 pm

your new share buttons looks awesome man
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Typhoon April 6, 2011 at 4:14 pm

thanks sourish..

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SeoDezin from fred loya insurance April 8, 2011 at 6:33 pm

First put your all efforts to earn money from your blog, when you feel that work load is beyond your limits, go for outsourcing your work.First check the quality of work. For remote service never pay amount in advance.

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Fazal April 9, 2011 at 9:02 am

that is a reaally nice post Charles. I think we should outsource our work, for example link building and seo can be really time consuming. We should outsource that!
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Cheolsu June 7, 2011 at 12:06 am

It’s not a bad idea to get some blogposts outsourced once in a while to get some high quality and fresh content.
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Nawaz June 10, 2011 at 8:01 am

A good advice about the blog management but sometime outsourcing your work become a disaster for you if an inexperience person is chosen by you. First of all get full grip on your work before outsourcing it.
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herman June 10, 2011 at 11:33 am

Outsourcing a small percentage of your total blog posts is also a great idea. It opens your blog to fresh take on certain topics you may already have in mind. It also allows you to take some time off to recharge your batteries.
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Ashley July 27, 2011 at 9:43 am

I have outsourced a number of tasks in the past, mainly design related tasks.
In principle, outsourcing can be a useful tool to create leverage. The problem is that finding reliable people to work with can be very time consuming, too. I recommend to look at finding freelancers the same way as if you were looking for long-term employees. Because once you found a reliable freelancer you want to keep working with that person again.
Another thing I recommend is to learn every task you want to outsource by yourself first. That way you will have a much better understanding of the problems involved and what you can realistically expect from the freelancer.
Think of outsourcing as your team building process. You are looking for freelancers that can become part of your team and as we all know success is a team effort. Thank you.
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Markus July 29, 2011 at 6:45 pm

I like your post. You meantion how to get a lot of work done, without some hard work.. I have recently tried out outsourcing. Its the way to go when you have a lot of work and dont have time to handle all.

Thanks for sharing this, because this will get people to to work for you, for $.. And thats great.

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Nasif August 24, 2011 at 10:14 pm

Since I am getting busy with my academic study so planning to outsource some of the work.
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Oscar Bering September 9, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Outsourcing does provide relief in most business owners and bloggers as well. Finding the time to do everything is definitely hard, that’s why it’s probably best to delegate some of the work to any trusted virtual assistants.
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Ed September 16, 2011 at 7:22 pm

To me, the maintenance is a big issue. Just updating old articles is going to help you, not to mention some of the day to day technical stuff you have to keep on top of.

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Rowan October 1, 2011 at 4:23 pm

I don’t think I have the money to outsource material for my blog. I guess I’ll just have to work harder.
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amina February 27, 2012 at 2:52 am

well a blogger can outsource everything, time is money, and one can take benefits from these, it depends on how and what you can do, if yoiu have enough money you can go beyond your limits if you dont have then work hard to acheive your goals..

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Azhar March 27, 2012 at 2:10 pm

Yeah I am agreed with the point of amina it really depends upon money limits if one got enough money he can do whatever he likes to , however good tips Charles :)

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