One of the main problems that bloggers encounter when they go about growing their blog, such as creating a dedicated blog network for their sites, subdomains/additional areas of their main blog, or a more community-type site, is that the level of quality, in both the number of updates and post length, greatly suffers.

Even before you think about blogging on multiple blogs, creating additional blogs, or creating a significant turning point in your blogging endeavors, make sure that you will be able to keep each and every blog updated on a daily or weekly basis.  

The main reason that blog networks were created was to help showcase a select number of bloggers’ efforts at a single place, possibly with shared advertising earnings, or a lower posting requirement, as other bloggers on the network are able to post on your blog.  These networks, whether you enjoy visiting them or not, have helped bring quality back to these blogs, whose owners didn’t have the time it took to keep them updated by themselves.  Even if the blog network in mention doesn’t allow cross-posting, it is much easier for other bloggers/visitors to stay in contact with the owner should they need guest posters.

So, when it comes to a point in your blogging career to diverge onto new projects, how do you feel about letting others write content on your blog? 

If you feel that you can’t devote the required time into your blog, don’t let the quality level dive simply because you didn’t realize the amount of time that blogging requires.  In this era of blogging, there are so many ways that you can prevent a blog from going down the drain - invite guest posters, turn your blog over to a network, or sell your blog to someone that “says” they will revive your blog.