@Mark: You’re right, but I’m all about making my readers happy. :)

Sajjid Manuel
Founder/Ceo
http://www.blogworkx.com
A Frost and Fable Record Company

Dude, the last time I checked the posts on your site are FREE! Just like the guest article says…

Until you start charging for your content the only responsibility you have is to yourself. Of course, you want your readers to be satisfied but you publish your thoughts and ask nothing in return. Oh yeah, your RSS numbers look pretty good from where I sit too.

Funny, I was just outside landscaping my house thinking about the comments that you and Darren left yesterday on my post about gaining new site traffic via guest blogging. If this is what more traffic brings I am quite happy to stay a small, organic site.

Continued success to you! I look forward to your next post, whenever that may be :-)

That was another an excellent post and it’s an inspiration to all of us out there trying to become experts in our own field.

My self and the group of people who have created an online magazine on beauty, anti-aging and aging well have also worked along the same principles you explained in that guest post.

We’ve been asked by many other publications to be the expert beauty team and this simple blog we created 6 months about has taken us on a great ride.

We’re basically following another blogger who went from blogging part-time while working at Salvation Army helping underprivileged people to having a very popular celebrity blog + having a segment on TV + covering a lot of the award events and the film festivals … all in the span of about 2-3 years!

The blog platform allows you to actually showcase what you do well and we do take the time to write compelling information that are completely and totally passionate about, people sense that and they come back for more and they also want you to share that kind of insane passion with their readers.

Getting paid is important because we all need the money to pay bills and also to grow financially, but there should always be something that we’re willing to give out for free to show people how level of expertise.

A blog is the perfect tool to help us do exactly that!

Gisele
http://www.beautymatch.com

Sorry, guys, if you feel the quality has gone down. I’ve tried to take the advice of readers here and post when I feel like it, and put out the best quality stuff I can. If you take a look at my posts recently (last few weeks), they’ve been as high a quality as ever (at least, that’s my intention).

Well, I will continue to try for the high quality, but less frequent posts (maybe 4 times a week right now). We’ll see how that works out, and if everyone continues to hate it, I’ll go back to 5 times a week.

Secondly, you could also look at the flip side of the coin and say that by allowing guest posts on his blog and by guest posting on others, Leo is giving back to the blogging community who have embraced him. Having Leo guest post for you, is in itself kudos, as is having a guest post on Zen Habits.

Thirdly, any of you who blog as regularly as Leo does (not just on this blog but on others) will know how hard it is to come up with fresh content on an ongoing basis. There are only so many ways to spin a positive thing and say something, so it’s not surprising if at times, some of the content is a little repetitive. What works for some, may not have worked for others so finding different ways to communicate essentially the same message, is not necessarily a bad thing…