A little while ago I wrote a blog post about how to get your blog moaning with pleasure.
As a result of the blog post, a regular commenter here and a good blogging buddy, Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing recommended I add a page listing my guest posts. i.e. having links to the guest posts I have had published.
Well I have finally got around to setting this up and I have crossed it off my list.
Some of my best writing has been published on other blogs and this is a great way to tell my readers – so thank YOU Dennis.
You can see the new page here:
If you get a few minutes have a read and I hope some of them make a difference to your blogging experiences.
Andrew
Excellent job man!
And may I be the first to say, holy crap jack, that’s a lotta guest posts. Nice!
Dennis,
Thanks for the original idea.
I do like guest posting!
Andrew
That’s great— funny I had that same idea when I woke up this morning..where can I put my guest posts? Now I am not the only one who had that idea! Thanks!
Julie
Now…it’s just a little action to follow up on the idea!
Andrew
Wow, that is a lot of guest posts, good job! How do you get so many guest posting opportunities? Do you just contact the site owners and offer to write something?
Rachel
In many cases I have built up a bit of a realtionship with the blog owners beforehand.
Andrew
Hey Andrew,
Dennis is full of great ideas, isn’t he? 😉
I’ve been wanting to do something similar ever since I started guest posting, but I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to create an actual page or to create a post that lists them all.
What would you recommend?
Thanks man. I’m actually changing all my pages to posts for extra benefits. 😉
I was thinking an actual post would be better also, since there are more SEO benefits and such.
Do both!
One as a post and then a permanent reminder to visitors – as a page.
Andrew
Hmm… not a bad idea there, Andrew! Now I just need to get all of my posts together… lol.
No need, jut build a navigation link list on the sidebar or something…link to the post.
What I meant was, I need to find all of my guest posts on the other blogs and get them together to create the post/page. 😉
Sorry Alan, that last reply of mine “No need, just build a navigation link list on the sidebar or something…link to the post.” – was in reply to Andrew. 🙂
Now that you mentioned it though, you should always keep track of your guest posts. 😉
Don’t forget comments, it turns anything into an instant FAQ, which could be very handy for some “pages”.
I always have comments enabled for pages. Nice tip, Dennis. 🙂
Lucky you, I think that’s a theme thing though. I’ve never been able to enable comments on a page.
flexsqueeze allows it?
Awe… that makes sense now. 😉
Yeah, I should have but just never did. I know the blogs they’re on, so I just gotta go find them… lol.
Actually, it’s a WordPress thing. I’m not sure if there are official settings for this, but if you go to your pages and click on “Quick Edit” there will be a check box to allow comments for that page.
That’s what I thought at first; mine are all set to allow comments, yet, nothing; which has always led me to think it’s a theme thing.