Top 5 Reasons to Start Guest Blogging
To tell the world about your site, you can comment regularly on other blogs with the content similar to yours, advertise on popular blogs, submit your posts to social bookmark sites, or submit a guest post on popular blogs in your niche.
If you are a relatively new blogger or website owner who is looking to attract new readers and extend the visibility of your site, guest blogging might be a nice opportunity for you.
What is guest blogging and how does it work?
Guest blogging is about writing an article, story, review, or case study and have it posted on someone else’s blog. The content must be relevant to the blog’s general theme. Imagine you have a couple of favorite blogs you visit regularly. You read the posts and share your thoughts with the blog’s owner and other readers in comments. But you feel you can tell more on the given problem, share your experience in that area, or maybe you found a tool that you think would be useful for the blog’s readers. So why not write a story or product review and offer the blogger to post it on their blog? This is what guest blogging for. You prepare your content, contact the blog’s owner, tell them that you have some interesting and useful information to share with their readers and ask them to consider posting your article on their blog. If they accept guest posts and if they find your story worth to be posted, your article will be published.
What exactly are the benefits of guest blogging?
Is guest blogging really worth it for both the host blog and the guest blogger? There are indeed a couple of benefits to both the host blog and the guest blogger on short-term as well as long-term. Here are 5 great reasons for you to start posting on other blogs:
- Valid links to your own blog/website. You know that backlinks from relevant sites give much more in terms of Google juice. Most blog owners will happily give a backlink back to your blog or website either directly in the post itself or on the blogroll. This link will help your future rankings in the search engines, and is a great way to earn quality inbound links at no cost except the time invested in writing the guest post itself.
- New right visitors. Demonstrating your writing skills and knowledge in the given niche to the readership of other blogs is a great way to gain new and interested visitors. Every blog has a set of readers, and guest blogging on it exposes your blog or website to them. By guest blogging you can get visitors to your site who are already interested in the topic you write and therefore are more likely to convert to regular readers of your blog. You know a thousand of visitors daily is nice, but 100 targeted visitors at any time are better. A targeted user is more likely to bookmark your site, sign up for your newsletter and bring new visitors along with him.
- More traffic to your own blog/website. The appearance of your post on a popular and well visited blog will give more exposure to your own blog, and will most likely bring traffic from the host blog as the visitors will come to see and read more of your stuff if the post is interesting enough. Although not all of those readers will want to visit your blog at once, they will surely notice your blog name and the next time you submit a guest post on the same blog or another blog they read, they will want to check out your blog.
- Making friends. Guest blogging also helps build relationships with other bloggers and establish you as an authority on your chosen subject. Just regard other bloggers in your chosen niche as partners and not as enemies because other blogs are well enough visited and you can make your blog or website more popular by having a post on those blogs.
- Reciprocal interest. If the blog owner likes your post, he can return the favor to you at some point. The same reasons that make you writing a guest blost, is a great reason for the blog owner to write a guest entry on your blog.
For the host blog there are also several benefits:
- The host blog will benefit from an increased exposure from another blog or website, as the guest blogger will more likely inform his/her own readers that he is now posting on other respected blogs.
- The blogger can have a break while his blog is up and running. Plus, they get a fresh perspective on their topic.
…And the reader wins because they get a new, fresh standpoint concerning the blog’s subject that indicates the host blogger cares for his readership, and wants to bring as much information and knowledge to his visitors as possible.
Guest Blogging on www.fastblogfinder.com
Publishing guest posts on popular blogs is a tried and tested way to get inbound links and traffic. The guest blogger gets visibility and a link back, and the host blog gets a useful content and a fresh point of view on the blog subject.
I am looking forward to help you get the most out of guest blogging and I am opening www.fastblogfinder.com for guest blogging.
My guest blogging policy is simple:
- Write an article relevant to www.fastblogfinder.com theme: tips, tricks, case studies on the internet marketing, SEO, link building, website promotion.
Requirements:
- The article must be more than 350 words.
- The article must have a unique content, not published yet on any blog or website including yours.
- The article must not contain any affiliate links.
- The article must not be ranting or negative in any way. I need inspiring posts for future guest bloggers. - Send it to me either in the body of an e-mail or in the attachment at support (at) glocksoft.com.
- Include your biography: name (as you would like it to appear), credentials (if you have any like children, etc.), and links to your blog, website and your blog feed (if you have them).
Obviously, the content of your story must be relevant to the site but arrangements can be made if necessary. If I like your article and it is reasonably on topic, I’ll strongly consider posting it.
I don’t want to promise you a flood of new traffic, but if you haven’t done any guest blogging before, maybe posting in a new environment and exposing your content to new readers will result in a gain of readership. Anyway, it won’t certainly hurt.
So send me your posts! I am always looking for great content to post and other points of views that readers may find valuable.
When done properly, guest blogging is a win-win-win opportunity: the audience first, next the guest and last (but not least) the host blog. A bit of foresight can prevent disaster. Do it right and it can be fantastic for all parties.
In the upcoming article I will tell you about how to find the blogs to offer your guest post and write a guest post that the blogger can’t refuse. And the last article will be about how to find the opportune moment to contact the blogger and what to tell them to have your guest post accepted.
Let me know what you think by posting your comments below.
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Hey,
I have undergone a few guest posts myself and I think it’s very useful and a powerful way of getting some good inbound links. Although these alone have not been enough to increase my search engine ranking as of yet, as soon as I start to post a few more I’m sure it will start to rise.
Julia,
That sounds like a great idea.I’m new to blogging and I’ve heard this is a great way to start getting traffic.I am already using the free edition of G-Lock Blog Finder.
Unlike much on-line advice, your 5 reasons are right on target. What you mentioned is exactly the why many people are making a full time income with blogs.
I find the software not bad but it finds too many irrelavant blogs in other words if I give in bad credit eraser it will just pick one of those words and nail down blogs with only that word in.I know blogs exist with all 3 words in I have found them manually.
Regards Peter
Hi Peter,
Thank you and other users for leaving comments on the blog. I appreciate them much.
Regarding your comment: the Blog Finder showed those blogs because Google considered them to be relevant to your search terms. If you want to find the blogs with all 3 words on the page, try to use the exact search type, i.e. put your search query in quotes. You can also click on “Toggle Highlighting Keywords” button on the toolbar above the Preview window and the program will highlight your keywords on the opened page.
I think as well as all that it does a good job in building your credibility. Especially if you can get on one of the big name blogs.
Julia
I have never come across this concept before and look forward to your next articles.
Would you suggest doing what you have done and actually post a request for guest bloggers?
Paul
Hi Paul,
If you have a blog, I would suggest that you do the same. It won’t hurt. Just the reverse, your blog will get new fresh content that your readers will most likely appreciate. If you decide to open your site for guest blogging, you must post a request, of course. Otherwise, nobody will know you are open for guest bloggers.
Yes, its true that link building is very effective by this method. I used it earlier too, but I had never had a chance to use a web tool that could help me achieve more results in less time. The painstaking job of finding related blogs is taken up by the tool and the burden of checking the link type is off me now. I am open for guest bloggers at my site.
{snip: no personal urls in the comments please}
The authors bio will be posted along with the article, The inclusion is free so the scrutiny will be strict. A worthy article with a theme of Life, Dreams,Success, God or Relationships will work the best. Any Offbeat article is also welcomed on any topic that matches the content of the site (Sculptures, Web Developement).
The articles will also be posted and promoted all throughout the community through the community toolbar.
I have looked at making posts at various blogs and forums and I’ve wondered how one gets links back.
Here, at this blog, it is obvious because the posters identity can include a website reference. However, on many other blogs I haven’t seen this. Is there some other way to get links from posting there?
Great post and although I’ve heard of the concept before in the form of submitting articles or content to websites and asking them to publish it with a link back, it is good to hear it from this perspective.
I do like using fastblogfinder however it appears on several occasions the same main blogs are pulled, just different posts, even though I search for different niches. I have not tried using quotes as you mentioned to Peter above so I will give that a try as I think that may help. It would also be nice if there was a way to sort by post date as many times the posts are old and they may not allow commenting anymore. Sorry this has gone off topic, but I also wish the software would record that I commented if I decide to comment on a different post then the one found by fastblogfinder. For example say it found an old post and I use fastblogfinder to navigate to a newer post that is still relevant or at least something I can make a decent comment on and then I decide to comment there (instead of the post it originally found). When I do that I can make a comment however the software does not record it in fastblogfinder (unless I’m missing something) that I made a comment.
Overall it’s a handy tool to have in my tool belt and worth the money.
Thanks.
David
Hi Julia,
The article above is excellent fodder. I feel privileged leaving a reply to such a good article. I sensethis article will be around for years. Whatever preparation you have done will see excellent Google ranking as a consequence.
The very technique above is what I’m doing now.
I’ll be sending you an article… Let’s hope it meets your high standards.
Cheers
Phil
Spain
Hi Julia
Many thanks for sharing that technique, I’ve only recently purchased Fastblogfinder and it is too early to comment on how beneficial that has been. However I cannot imagine it doing anything other than good, it certainly saves time on researching blogs in your niche, hopefully positive results will follow. With regards to social book marking I’m utilising pingomatic, pingoat, feedshark, only wire and much more.
I firmly believe that my posts stand up for scrutiny but still dont feel that I have enjoyed the best of benefits from my blogging thus far.
With regards to your post on guest blogging, I read this with interest and will be considering how I could write a post with quality content beneficial to both of us.
Thanks again for sharing this post!
Kind Regards
Chris
Hi Julia:
Thank you for some insight into the concept of “guest blogging”. We really had not known about the concept prior to reading your insights. We look forward to putting your ideas into practice. Thank you for the previous information you sent regarding how to maximize the use of the Fast Blog Finder tool….it helps immensely.
Best to you,
David
Great article on blogging, thank you for sharing the many relevant ideas with everyone. One thought I would promote or suggest would be how to get maximum exposure to your blog with such tools as pinging…
There seem to be quite a few such tools available, some as freeware, some as demo’s.
Ove rthe next day I will be reviewing these tools and more and the results will be available on my blogspot
{snip: no personal urls in the comments please}
Please feel free to guest blog on this idea or subjects of similiar interest to help New online business owners.
Best Regards,
Danny Denney
Thou I haven’t bought the full version yet, your software is great. Not sure if I can write an article about someone else but I will keep using it currently and upgrade to the full power of the software soon.
Hi David,
Thank you for your comment.
>It would also be nice if there was a way to sort by post date as many times the posts are old and they may not allow commenting anymore.
Unfortunately, this cannot be done because the date format differs from post to post and some posts may not have a date at all. You can only sort your comments by Post Date within the program. To do this, click on the Post Date column heading in the Blog Finder.
>Sorry this has gone off topic, but I also wish the software would record that I commented if I decide to comment on a different post then the one found by fastblogfinder. For example say it found an old post and I use fastblogfinder to navigate to a newer post that is still relevant or at least something I can make a decent comment on and then I decide to comment there (instead of the post it originally found). When I do that I can make a comment however the software does not record it in fastblogfinder (unless I’m missing something) that I made a comment.
The Blog Finder does add a new post page to the list. If you open a page, then navigate to another page on that blog, and post your comment on that new page, it is added to the list of URLs. Plus, you can use the “Add to List” button to add it yourself to the list of links. But, please, note that if you use the Free version of Fast Blog Finder and you’ve already found 50 links, the new page will not be added to the list because it will exceed the limit of allowed URLs in the free version.
Hi
I purchased your G lock dir submitter to promote my website as this is a new site and only been online for 3 weeks, i will download your blogfinder Demo and report my finding back here
I expect its going to take several week before any of the blog links get indexed into Google or the main search engines
regards David UK
Hey, coming here for the first time via the newsletter you sent me. I must confess, I haven’t heard about GUEST BLOGGING before. Though the concept itself isn’t new online or offline marketing, but I was ignorant how to apply it to blogging.
Very detailed ideas you’ve given here on this post for the savvy and hard working marketers to take advantage of. Well, the opportunity you’re given on your own blog, I will say, is an ICING ON THE CAKE.
Thanks.
Hi, I am just wondering how the software reacts to blogs that selectively nofollow the posts. I have seen some instance of those.
I know of one website that allows guest blogging and it is open to anyone. They allow 5 post per url a day and 2 links to your website one deep link and one home page link. How would we go about finding guest blogs I would assume go to google and try this seach “keyword” + “guest Post” or “keyword” + “guest Post allowed”. Well I tried it but all I found was forums. Any one else have a way of finding them?
Hi Brian,
Please, try to search for blogs that are looking for guest posts using the queries I describe in this article:
http://www.fastblogfinder.com/how-to-write-a-guest-post/