Blogging Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Om Malik is a blogger who covers the technology industry. His blogs are read by thousands of devoted followers. The pressure to put out quality blog articles day-after-day may have caused him to have a heart attack. Or perhaps it was his chain smoking.
I don't want to make light of Om's serious medical issues or the causes thereof, but when I read about the situation I immediately thought of the countless other bloggers, including hiring managers and recruiters, who struggle to find something to write about each day, week, or even month. Others love to write but struggle to find an audience. Both groups will find not a total cure but certainly some immediately and long lasting relief from the Recruiting Blogswap, a free service from CollegeRecruiter.com.
How does it work? Let's say that you're a recruiting blogger and struggling to come up with good new content. Sign up for free at RecruitingBlogswap.com as a publisher and we'll send recruiting articles to you. You can review and publish those which you like and decline those which you don't. If you decline an article, it is then sent to the next publisher in line.
If your problem is more along the lines of finding an audience than finding what to write about, then sign up for free at RecruitingBlogswap.com as an author. Submit original articles as often or as occasionally as you wish. Each article will be sent to one of the recruiting blog publishers who have signed up to receive articles. If they publish your article, you'll receive an email telling you so along with a link to the page on their site where you can see it. The article will automatically include a link back to your site, which will build direct click traffic from the publishing blog and improve your search engine rankings with Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. and that will improve your search engine traffic. If the publisher declines to publish your article, it will automatically be re-assigned to the next publisher in line.
What if you don't have a recruiting blog but want your voice heard? No problem. Submit your non-self serving (no hard sells in the body of your article -- save that for your byline) article as an author. Link to whatever site you wish or to no site if you prefer.
Questions? Contact Lisa Colbert, Client Services Representative.
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