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Hi all,

What method would produce better numbers?  Alexa, traffic, all that good stuff we are all aiming for.

For a month, you post regularly as usual.  Or your site goes dark for a month, but you are guest posting on different sites for a month.  If you want, perhaps you can mention where you are guest posting for the day.  Just curious.

I agree with Aloysa. Even if I read a great guest post, once I went over to your site and saw that it wasn't updated in a while, I wouldn't subscribe to your feed or anything. 

So you would get an initial surge of traffic, but no new readers. 

Buck, are planning a guest post marathon?

You could split it fairly evenly for good results. If you normally post everyday, post every other day on your blog & submit guest posts on the off days. If you post twice a week, go with once and offer 4-5 guest posts in a month. I try to mix in a few guest posts every month, plus blogging regularly on my own sites.

Regular posts.

Here's the problem with only guest posting – when readers from other sites come to yours what will they see?  Will they follow your work if you haven't posted in weeks?

You need to find a balance.  I'd say post regulalry on your own site and space out articles on other sites as you can.

Thanks all!

I think I wanted to push myself to doing more guests posts, but didn't want to burn out due to the extra load.  Just learning from you all what works and what doesn't.

TGIF! 

Lean towards original content.    Although everyone says that guest posting on other blogs is a great way to drive new traffic, I'm having a hard enough time squeezing in about 3 posts a week into my blog.