Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #8

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Benefit: Increased exposure on social bookmarking and article sites leads to more more website traffic.

Problem: Setting up social networking profiles, adhering to their Terms Of Service and submitting to article sites can be incredibly time consuming, even though it’s necessary.

Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #8

How a Virtual Assistant can help:

  1. A Virtual Assistant can set up your profiles on the various social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Design Bump, Sphinn, etc.
  2. She can submit your posts to those services and may also be willing to submit your posts to her own social bookmarking profiles.
  3. She can submit posts from your favorite bloggers to those sites as well so you do not violate any TOS by only submitting your own content.
  4. As you begin to build your community on sites such as Digg she can accept friend requests as well.
    Submit applicable posts to publish at article banks such as Ezine, GoArticles, Idea Marketers, etc. and make changes as required for approval.

Why: As many of the other tips, this also help increase backlinks, increase the number of visitors, and improve search engine ranking.


Michelle Mangen is owner of Your Virtual Assistant in Venice, Florida, providing virtual assistance to small business owners who realize their time is better spent on high value, high ROI tasks. Visit Michelle at Your Virtual Assistant.

Outsource Commenting – Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #7

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Benefit: Building backlinks by commenting on other blogs to help increase your page rank.

Problem: Can be time consuming to find appropriate blogs to comment on.

Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #7

How a Virtual Assistant can help:

  1. If you are not yet commenting on other blogs you can have research done to find a list of blogs that meets your desired criteria such as finding blogs that are DoFollow or CommentLuv enabled.
  2. Have your Virtual Assistant spend one hour a month commenting on these blogs to help increase backlinks to your site.
  3. Using free resources such as Link Diagnosis have her run monthly reports to monitor progress and see which sites she should focus her time on.
  4. If you are interested in finding bloggers who would be suitable for guest posting on your site she can do research to find those you are most interested in partnering with.

Why: This can help build your community, your page rank and open you to other opportunities for increased exposure.

Outsourcing commenting can be hot topic. What’s your opinion? How is this done right?


Michelle Mangen is owner of Your Virtual Assistant in Venice, Florida, providing virtual assistance to small business owners who realize their time is better spent on high value, high ROI tasks. Visit Michelle at Your Virtual Assistant.