Since opening up Blazing Minds to Guest Bloggers, I’ve had some amazing guest posts coming in and these have been extremely popular on the blog as can be seen by the rise in the Alexa rank and the comments that have been left on the various posts.

Now the only problem with opening your blog up to Guest Bloggers is those that will take advantage of this and just register to try to SPAM your blog with awful posts, now for me, I’ve always had some guidance for my guest bloggers to follow and luckily everyone has followed these to produce some great article.
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I’ve meant to do this for a while now, but thought it would be best until there were a few [intlink id="guest-bloggers" type="page"]Guest Bloggers[/intlink] who were active on Blazing Minds, so now they are, it’s time for me to introduce them to you, I’m going to start with an introduction to a Guest Blogger who is very popular here and on his own blogs….

Dragon Blogger

Aka Justin Germino has contributed a few Guest Posts and is an Information Security Engineer by day who writes about software, blogging, technology and entertainment on the side, his blog Dragon Blogger is a fantastic blog that I highly recommend you stop by. Check out all of his Guest Posts here on Blazing Minds.

Angus

Angus Maiden dabbles in many things music-related: making his own music (The Peach Tree), reviewing albums, spinning decks (DJ Gamoneterik), and have his eyes set on starting up a record label. He is also a qualified sound-engineer.  Ink flows through his veins and he loves writing, which you can find in his Guest Posts..

Anand

Anand Srinivasan is the founder of the World’s first Ask & Answer Website – KnewThis.com for webmasters to earn targeted backlinks. Posts by Anand on Blazing Minds

Slappy Bear

Named in a competition by ExtremeJohn, Slappy Bear is a fun-loving bear with a passion for everything in life, well, within reason. Occasional blogger and tweeter, but all round joker! Posts by Slappy Bear on Blazing Minds

MsIleaneSpeaks

Is a blogger, podcaster and Twitter addict. You can usually find her blogging on her blog at Engaging With Ms. Ileane Speaks. She is also an avid commentator on many blogs across the internet. Ms Ileane Speaks on Blazing Minds

Latief

Former Teacher And Community Development Consultant and Now he’s a Full Time Blogger, a Husband and a Father for an Angel. Posts by Latief on Blazing Minds

Igor Kheifets

Igor Kheifets is a 21-year-old genius who’s hooked on growth, expansion of mind and peach-vanilla tea. Igor is the founder of IgorHelpsYouSucceed where he shares Daily Internet Marketing Tips For Online Entrepreneurs. Posts by Igor Kheifets on Blazing Minds

Dana

Dana is the founder of Blogging Tips Blog, a blog where he share much about blogging, and little about internet and IT. Yup, You will find knowledge sharing about blogging, Internet, and IT in his blog. You can subscribe the Blogging Tips Blog Feed to be updated. Posts by Dana on Blazing Minds

Duncan

Duncan is a search marketing expert who represents a Canada holidays company. He loves films but not premiers…or Jessica Alba any more. Posts by Duncan on Blazing Minds

So there we have it an introduction to the bloggers that have kindly decided to [intlink id="413" type="category"]Guest Post[/intlink] here on Blazing Minds, my many thanks to them and also look out for their future posts here on Blazing Minds

Sometime back I mentioned that I was going to remove the EntreCard widget from my blog, so has it made any difference since removing the widget from Blazing Minds?

Well to put it simply, no!

I think it all boils down to the fact that since Blazing Minds has taken off more than I would have dreamed of and to those Guest Bloggers that have written some pretty amazing Guest Posts, the traffic hasn’t diminished at all and the traffic is still coming in strong from the various sources where Blazing Minds can be found such as the search engines, social networks etc.

So as long as you blog has taken off and is past the infant stage and has good followers, commentators that enjoy reading the blogs posts and those that are willing to either ReTweet your posts or spread them on other social networks, then that is probably the time start reducing widgets that are of no longer of any use on your blog.

Don’t get me wrong, EntreCard has brought to my attention some great blogs which I do still read, via my trusty RSS Reader, but as time has gone by, time is tight and dropping via the EntreCards was not on my list of top priorities.

It’s now down to blogging and keeping my readers interested in the article etc that are posted here on Blazing Minds, so shouts out to my Guest Bloggers, Commentators and those of you who are avid fans of the bizarre world of the Blazing Minds blog