Get Your Name Heard by Guest Blogging
This article was by Christopher Holland who works for nbat Digital – a multimedia design agency based in Kent.
If you plan to start guest blogging, do join My Blog Guest: the forum that connects bloggers to guest posters.
As the Internet has grown so much in the last decade, it has become vital for small and large businesses to gain an online presence. This can be achieved by search engine optimisation, with the key part being to obtain relevant backlinks.
With social media (Twitter, Facebook etc…) being the latest trend, it has become a lot easier to publish and share your articles. However, I have found that one of best strategies to get your articles seen is not to go around and post thousands upon thousands of links, it’s actually a lot easier than that – guest blogging.
Guest blogging is where another website / blog will allow you to post your article on their website. This benefits both parties, as you would obtain a relevant backlink, and they would gain more visitors and some great content!
Guest blogging is one of the most powerful ways to build your brand and increase your website’s popularity. It allows you to expose your company to a much wider audience and is a great way to build contacts.
Not only will guest blogging increase your company’s awareness but will play an important role within search engine optimisation. If your content is unique and worthy of sharing, then you could soon see hundreds if not thousands of deep links starting to point to you.
How to contribute
Now you know the basics about guest blogging, its now time to find suitable websites.
Finding relevant blogs / websites that may allow you to post your articles is easy once you know what you’re looking for. Using some simple search phrases in Google should bring up a long list for you to then go and contact.
Use the below search phrases, changing the keyword to something relevant.
[Keyword] “guest blogger” OR “guest post” OR “guest article”
[Keyword] “contribute to this site” “write for us” OR “write for me”
When contacting the webmasters, I find it best to include some sample writing and state some topics that you may write about.
What not to do
When guest blogging, I would keep in mind the following:
1) Guest posting is meant to be a win-win situation. You are the guest, making demands or a fuss to the host will not endear you and can cause more harm than good.
2) Do not ignore the audience. Your articles should take into account the style of the blog and the audience it attracts. You should also check back regularly to respond to any comments or feedback.
3) Don’t over advertise. Sure, one of the main reasons you have posted the article is to advertise yourself or your business, but filling your content with links or affiliate codes will more than likely backfire.
After you have gained permission, you’re ready to go! Write some great content, with a link back to your website at the bottom and hopefully watch your company grow.
Ann Smarty
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I’m on the bandwagon! I’m really enjoying the new community for guest bloggers, MyBlogGuest. I’ve already made some great connections from the platform. Great job Ann!
thanks for your information your information might be very helpful for the SEO peoples. with your information anyone can get the good ranking thanks for your information.
Update: deleted the above comments, because the issue seems settled
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Hey, Christopher. I’m not sure if you’re still listening to this thread. #2 ignoring your audience by doing a guest post and run was one of my biggest pet peeves. I don’t understand what guest bloggers hope to accomplish by doing this. If it’s just the link they’re after then I guess they’ve got what they came for, but I rarely follow a guest blogger back to their site if they’re not responsive to the comments left on their guest post.
This is entirely through. I’ve been doing same stuff for quite sometime now and it really worked.
How can I find blogs that will allow their guest to post on their blog site? Is there any free blog for guest blogging. Have been looking for that and I guess it is not free, isn’t it?
Yes there are blogs that you can post your own articles. Please keep in mind to provide useful and great ideas.
John@How to Start a Cleaning Business Reply:
March 4th, 2011 at 5:10 am
could you give me a sample or it would be better if a list ^_^ . thanks in advance!
What’s the success rate of something like this? Are people generally willing to let you post content? I love writing and researching other topics, so i’d love to be able to contribute to someone else’s site.
Guest blogging is fast becoming very popular. Writers need exposure and blogs need content so guest blogging suits everyone.
I think a lot of writers have become disillusioned with article directories because of their slowness at publishing our articles.
I also think there has been so many ‘junkie’ articles sent in that don’t offer much value and the article directories have become bogged down in this onslaught of spun articles. Quality writing today is a rare find
I guess the success rate of a strategy as guest blogging will really depend on how relevant and informative every post would be. Great article by the way. Guest blogging could be an addition to one of your arsenals when it comes to link building I guess.
Getting better name recognition through guess blogging can be effective once you know the proper techniques. Thanks for making the basics of blogging a little more clearer.
All those things you send many of us know it, but is good to see that someone is keeping track of it. Sometimes we forget he basic rules.
This strategy has been effective. By interacting with other blogger you get the chance to enhance your product or article. This technique is efficient for your own web presence.
In terms of linkbuilding or building links going back to one’s website with a strategy as guest blogging can be far more than effective ones you know the proper techniques in doing so. Most would only leave comments that are sometimes out of line or irrelevant for that matter so much so that no one would even notice the post and all the more visit their website. Being reminded of the basics can be helpful as well.
a lot of internet marketers even usual users are fun of using social media sites and they are really interesting to be used.
Guest blogging is actually really good for building online relationships which is really important for web based business. I have built so pretty profitable relationships online and they can go much much farther the just a back link.
Guest blogging for me can be quite intimidating. I do like to let others what I think though. I do think that the writers need to up thier game on content. No one likes to read something that is not concise or chalked full of information
I like this strategy so much, till now it still so powerful for my blogs network and I would like to suggest who are fear about Google panda update.. this strategy will help you to beat them.
Thank for share Christopher :0