200,000 PageViews Achieved for Blog

I achieved 200,000 pageviews for one of my blogs recently.  You can view it here at sgfinancialfreedom.blogspot.com . It has been an achievement just to cross that mark considering that I started out really just blogging for fun and to document my thoughts down as a web record.

$$$ from Ads
Over the years, I have managed to earn money from Adsense as well as selling adspace on my sites even though I must admit that I have not been very active in doing the latter.  Usually, I am approached by people who are advertisers.

No Time to Write Content
Content generation is really an issue.  A big issue.  Even for the blog that I mentioned above, I have not had much time to write.  The number of new posts for the year 2011 was dismal at less than 100 posts.  Other newer blogs have managed a far greater number of quality posts in 1 year compared to the few years that my site has been in existence.I also have to stop allowing guest posts of various content because I find that certain articles written by people hoping to put up a guest post on my site are just not suited for my readers.  So I have had to rely quite a fair bit on my own content which is difficult considering that I do not have much time to write each day.

Still, I must say that I have managed well.  And the adsense earnings are still coming in daily despite my apparent lack of action or activity.

Adsense Earnings Decline and Outsourcing Article Writing

My adsense earnings have been declining steadily over the past few weeks.

I have noticed it and quickly took action by writing more and also increasing the posting frequency. I guess my job hunt has taken a toll on my blogging efforts but I am still trying my best to keep up with blogging. It however can be difficult to produce unique and useful content all the time and I am deciding whether to outsource certain components of my blogs to some Indian firms which specialise in blog designs and article writing.

Content generation is actually the most time consuming aspect of blogging. Marketing also takes time but content generation must be the most tiring.

Should I or shouldn't I? I am not sure whether it will actually pay off in the long run to have other people write content for my sites but I guess the content can actually complement my original content and I could still write every now and then so that readers do not lose touch with me....