There's been a lot of discussion on guest blogging, the art of a guest writing one or more posts for another blog whilst the blog owner is away. This allows the blog owner to keep continuous content on their blog that usually has one or two posts a day. Their visitors have expectations and perhaps may drift away if the blog isn't updated for a week.nnThe main discussion by most has been that it's annoying for a reader. You subscribe to a person's blog to read their information, their posts and their opinions, not posts made by others. As a reader of a couple of blogs that set up guest blogging when they're away, I'll admit, I do tend to just skim over the guest post and rarely read it in full. This is also shown by commentators who remark 'great post *blog owner name*' when it's already been stated at the top that it's written by someone else. However, on the other side, as a guest blogger on a busier blog, you can potentially get your post out to a lot more visitors, get more exposure for yourself and your own site.nnA few remarks I've seen from bloggers is that a guest blogger will not put 100% into the post otherwise why not post it on their own site? A guest poster is only doing it for the exposure. A guest poster will no doubt have a pretty poor post as it's doubtful they're very good else they'd be happily blogging on their own site with plenty of visitors.nnThis week I was asked to write a couple of posts for another blog, one that has far more RSS subscribers than my blogs put together, and no doubt many more site visitors on top. My first thought was would it be hypocritcal of me. I don't tend to read guest posts so should I be the one writing a guest post? Then, of course, was my thoughts on what I would write about. My conclusion was that the best post I could produce would be on a subject I was very comfortable writing about. Then my thought moved to why I fancied the idea. Exposure for my own site? Yes, of course, who wouldn't want to guest blog for the potential to receive a few new visitors. However that wasn't the full reason, the other reason was to simply be heard. Call it an ego boost, but if I could write a post and it be well received on another person's site, then it would make me feel all warm and giddy inside nnIn comment to the few comments by other bloggers that I mentioned above, the posts I've written have been 100% for effort, and they're not what I'd post on my own blog as they're more designed for people new to websites and AIS sites. Yes they've been written in part for exposure of my own site but also for the warm and giddyness I could get (they're business terms you know ), and whilst my blog may not be exceptionally busy, I don't think it's that bad. Just because you write content, be it good or great, doesn't mean the visitors will come. Sure, knowledge and great post writing should pull in the visitors, recommendations and links, but it doesn't necessarily mean you'll get up with the B listers, let alone the A listers.nnOf course, after reading the various comments made my bloggers about guest posts, a lot of people are getting tired of seeing them (it is the time for summer holidays I guess!) and some of the harsher blog posts trashing guest bloggers, I have started to perhaps feel nervous about the prospect of my own posts to be trashed. Could it potentially be the wrong idea? Or is it a case of what have I got to lose? I guess I'm just too paranoid for my own good at times nnStill, the posts are written and sent to the blog owner and will be put live next week. I'll post up when they're online, just in case it is of any minor interest to you