Wondering what a guest blog is?
In simple terms, a guest blog is when you write a blog post and post it on someone else’s blog.
Doing this has its advantages like increasing traffic and blog promotion.
Personally, the thing I like about guest blogging is that it shows how bloggers nowadays are willing to help each other out. Indeed, no man is an island, even in the blogging world.
Remember the blogs you publish as guest posts have to be unique and not published elsewhere.
Over the last few weeks I’ve had the benefit of having several of my blog posts published on other blogs.
Guest blogging is not an easy task. You have to make the blog post one of your best because this is your chance to promote your blog to another blogger’s audience and thus increase traffic to your site. But it may not be accepted. The owner of the blog wants to share great advice to their readers, not any old rubbish.
If the blog post is accepted and the readers like your post, hopefully they will be interested enough to visit your site.
I have gathered some links that I know you’ll find really informative and helpful with regards to guest blogging. Feel free to check them out.
How to Guest Blog without Disaster By Chris Garrett
http://www.chrisg.com/how-to-guest-blog-without-disaster/
How to Guest Post to Promote Your Blog By Darren Rowse
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/01/how-to-guest-post-to-promote-your-blog/
Guest Blog Your Way to More Readers and Links By Paekiss
http://worldnetblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/guest-blog-your-way-to-more-readers-and-links/
The Art of Blogging: How Does Guest Blogging Work? By Lorelle VanFossen
http://www.blogherald.com/2007/08/06/the-art-of-blogging-how-does-guest-blogging-work/
How Do I Get Others to Guest Blog on my Blog? By Daniel Scocco
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-do-i-get-others-to-guest-blog-on-my-blog/
10 SEO Blogs Accepting Guest Posts: Promote Yourself By Ann Smarty
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-blogs-guest-posts/15194/
5 Reasons to Write Guest Posts By Misty Belardo
http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/5-reasons-to-write-guest-posts/
Promoting Your Blog By Justilien Gaspard
http://searchenginewatch.com/3633893
Your Opportunity to Guest Blog has Never Been Better By Roderick Ioerger
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/07/your-opportunity-to-guest-blog-has-never-been-better.html
Traffic, subscribers and Backlinks from Guest Posting By John Cow
http://www.johncow.com/traffic-subscribers-and-traffic-from-guest-posting/
What’s your experience of guest blogging? Share your views in the comments below.
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Wow, A great list of guest blogging related articles. Thanks!
I have not guest blogged myself yet, but I do accept guest posts on my blog. Maybe I should start to actively seeking places where to write guest posts.
Andrew, How much traffic have you got out of guest posting? Has the experience been good?
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Guest posting is a great way to increase your traffic – as long as you pick the right blogs!
Here’s a post about my guest post on problogger.net: https://www.webuildyourblog.com/476/traffic-effects-result-guest-blog-post/
Andrew
My first experience of guest post is being rejected.
Dana
Unfortunately, that often happens. If it does – find out why. All feedback is good.
Andrew
Thank you for a great post which for me is very appropriate as I have been approached to be a guest blogger for duration of few weeks on a blog for a professional association. From guest blog we can reach to new audience. While it is a good opportunity to get quality link and the best way to promote the blog.
Excellent news, Chris. I hope you take advantage of your opportunity.
Andrew
I think guess post is really a great opportunity for you to introduce yourself and your blog. We need to really increase our network to get more opportunity to do guess post. The hard thing is that you give your best content to someone else.
Henry
If you guest post on ‘bigger’ blogs that yours then it’s worth giving your best content away.
Andrew
No doubt, there are many advantages of writing guest post on others’ blog. If your guest post is accepted by big guy such as Problogger, Daniel Scocco etc, then you will even get more new readers to your blog. Of course, the quality of the post must be high and grammatical error free.
Andrew, you have a great guest post in my blog earlier, and am waiting for 2nd post. 😀
Have a nice day Andrew!
Cheers,
Lee
Lee,
My guest post on Problogger still brings me traffic today and it was posted months ago.
Here’s my guest post: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/12/how-to-build-credibility/
Andrew
This is on top of my agenda while my blog move happens, writing up tons of saved drafts for guest posting. 🙂
Dennis,
Just sent you a couple of guest posts to think aout.
Andrew
Got ’em. I’ll get back to ya. 😉
Thanks!
Sorry, forgot to subscribe to comments.
OK if commentluv is working the comment didn’t go through. Catch it before commentluv kicks in and the comment goes through.
Think I have issues with Commentluv plugin!
Andrew
Aacckkk! lol
Delete and reinstall, it got mine working again.
I tried that and still not working. Might be a confict with another plugin!
Andrew
Ah ok, what “share” plugin are you using? That screwed up my CL vbut good at one point.
On Andy’s recommendation, I switched to http://www.zyblog.de/wordpress-plugins/sociable-zyblog-edition/
Dennis,
I use the SexyBookmarks plugin for sharing.
Andrew
OK sexy may not be compatible.
I like guest posting. I have been a ghost writer for blogs, but have done very few guest posts. I will be looking into doing more guest posts and having more guest posts in the future.
Gerlaine,
You can always guest post here!
Would love that!
Andrew
My place too! My latest post, linked below, is a call out for guest posts. 😉
http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com/send-me-your-best-articles-ill-send-you-my-best-traffic/
I had to link within the comment. For some reason this blog will no longer let me comment when commentluv is working.
I’ve had to deactivate CommentLuv for some reason – no longer working!
Andrew
Andrew,
Thanks for the list! I’ve recently started using guest posting and it’s working well. I will check out the articles you posted.
Steve
You are welcome.
Is guest posting helping grow your visitors?
Andrew
I do understand that guest blog is an effective way to drive traffic to your site. However, in my case i’m afraid of being rejected. The feeling of rejection just kills me. I need to overcome this fear first before doing this method. Anyways, thanks for the great post.
Gary
You shouldn’t fear the rejection. You will be rejected…no doubt…we all are…but simply move onto the next blog that accepts guest posts.
Andrew
i think guest posting brings you a lot of backlink to which directly effect your Google Pagerank
se on my blog i have more than 5 % posts by guests so i think everyone should do that this guest post on my blog is really awesome
Guest posting is indeed one of the best possible ways of getting recognition, getting traffic to your blog and also building backlinks to your blog.
A well written post on a good blog can do more for your reputation and get you more traffic than you could ever imagine!
As for me i don’t want to give out some of my good content, but i will try problogger
David
I think that is the wrong aproach.
You want to give out your best content – so poeple see it especially if your target a bigger site than yours to guest post on.
Andrew