One of the very best ways to promote your blog, your expertise and your brand is by guest posting on blogs.
As a guest blogger you’re giving yourself the opportunity to expand your reach far beyond the confines of your own blog. In other words, your guest post published on a successful blog that has a large readership, has the potential of putting you in front of a much larger, more diverse group of interested eyes, and that simply means more traffic for you.
But because of the rise in popularity of guest posting and the mad rush to guest post on popular blogs, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to get your guest post accepted, however that’s not a reason to ignore this powerful promotional strategy, not at all.
Here are 3 simple but powerful guest posting tips and guidelines that will help you find blogs to post on and ensure your post gets accepted.
1. Find Blogs that will publish your guest post
Use Alltop and Technorati to find blogs in your niche. You can also use this search argument in Google to find sites that accept guest posts
intitle: “guest posts” yournichekeywords
This may simply turn up guest posts on blogs, but you can assume that if the blog has guest posts on it, they’re likely to accept a guest post from you.
- Look for blogs that have lots of activity, meaning that visitors are commenting on their posts.
- Make sure the blog is maintained, in other words if their last post was 6 months ago, you may want to keep looking.
- Look for original content and avoid blogs that syndicate a lot of existing content.
2. Very carefully read the blog’s guest posting requirements and guidelines.
Don’t assume that all blogs have the same requirements and guidelines for guest posting. Read through the instructions carefully and make sure you are complying with all their requirements. Webmasters don’t have time to spoon feed you through their process, many of them simply get too many blog post requests, so if you miss a requirement you’ll just simply be ignored. It’s harsh I know, but a fact nevertheless.
3. Make Your Pitch
Many blogs have a tab or link that you can follow where they openly request guest posts, however there are blogs that don’t, so you may have to pitch your guest post request.
For those blogs simply compose an email to the blog administrator or owner and include the following:
- Introduce yourself by name
- Include your website
- Share a few site statistics like your number of monthly unique visitors.
- You may also want to include your Alexa ranking or anything that will help demonstrate that a guest post from you will benefit them in terms of quality traffic and useful links.
Also don’t simply ask if you can guest post on the blog, instead include the guest post in your email. Don’t waste everyone’s time emailing back and forth asking for permission, simply attach your guest post and request that they let you know their decision to post.
General Guidelines for Guest Posting
As mentioned above, most blogs accepting guest posts have their own set of guidelines or instructions, but for those that don’t, these are standard guidelines for guest posts that you will want to use.
1. Submit only original posts written by you. That means your guest post must be written by you and not previously published elsewhere, including on your own blog or website.
2. Make your content useful and interesting. Generic, dull content that people have seen a hundred times around the web is a lot less likely to be approved than a blog post that is useful, unique and something a reader can benefit from, apply to their business or help improve their life. Keep your content interesting by adding a personal flavor and make it something a reader can pull value from.
3. No advertisements, product or affiliate promotions. Most blog will not accept guest posts that include advertising or product promotions of any kind.
4. Use good grammar and your spellchecker. If your content has spelling errors or poor grammar you can be sure it won’t be accepted, so be careful to submit only quality posts.
5. Posts should be 400 – 600 words. Many blogs will accept up to 1000 word posts, but generally speaking they prefer at least 400 words.
6. Include your biography or resource box with your guest posts. Don’t forget to add your bio and link to your website. Include a head shot link as well. They may not use it, but it’s good practice to include it.
Be advised that most blog publishers will require exclusive rights to your post, so keep that in mind.
Don’t underestimate the power of guest posting, it’s still one of the most valuable promotional methods for boosting traffic to your blog or website.
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