Guest Posts

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Yesterday, we released the 2nd publish in a number of guest posts compiled by author Greg McFarlane at ProBlogger. And lately you’ll have observed our multi-author series on producing blog comments. So today I figured it may be interesting to discuss the thinking behind testing out series, and step through a few of the issues you’ll wish to avoid should you consider hosting a guest publish series by yourself blog. Just a little history… If you are a normal ProBlogger readers, you’ll realize that we

Your own blog might be packed with great content … but it won’t be doing you much good if you don’t have any readers. One of the best ways to bring readers to your blog is to write guest posts on larger, related, blogs. This not only gets your name and writing in front of people, it also helps your Google rankings (because you’ll get a link to your site from a high-pagerank blog). If you’ve never guest-posted before, you might not know where to start. Here’s your step-by-step guide: Some bloggers

This guest post is by Carol Tice of Make a Living Writing. If you’re looking for a way to grab attention for your blog and grow your income, I’ve had great success with this one: I pay writers. Since May 2011, I’ve been paying $50 for guest posts on my blog. I started paying because my mission is to help writers earn more, and I needed to walk my talk. I usually buy two or three posts a month.

Have you ever published a post on your blog and wanted to change the “author” of the post after it’s already gone live? There are plenty of reasons why you may need to do this; ranging from publishing guest posts under your own name, or wanting to add a new writer or “guest blogger” author to your account. This is something I recently wanted to do on one of my other blogs. To avoid any confusion between actual posts I was writing, and guest posts that were submitted to the

This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. You can’t really turn anywhere these days and not hear somebody telling you that in order to grow your blog, you need to guest post. I know you’ve heard that before, but have you actually done it? Or are you looking for somebody to tell you how to actually go about creating a guest post content strategy, finding the right blogs to guest post for, approaching that blogger and actually writing that post? If so, then you’ve come to the right place.

This guest post is by Ronique Gibson of Freshome. Once you have been blogging for a while, the reality of keeping your content fresh, relevant, and interesting becomes more of a challenge. One way to satisfy these challenges is to host guest blogs on your site.  While there are plenty of tips out there on how to be a good guest blogger, what about being a gracious host? Similarly to inviting guests to your home, you want your guests to feel welcome, relaxed, and oh yeah, they should provide a gift to the

This guest post is by Aman Basanti of ageofmarketing.com. If you have been in the blogging game for any number of months, you already know about the power of guest blogging in generating traffic and exposure to your blog. Yet there are new bloggers out there who hear about the power of guest posting, but still do not understand why it is so effective. Image copyright Franz Pfluegl - Fotolia.com

I can remember clearly when I just started my blog, on the second of April 2010. I didn’t know exactly what I was doing then, but I just knew, somehow, that my blog will grow to a stage where it is read by thousands of people every month. After a few months of blogging, I read a lot of articles giving tips on how to market a blog and drive traffic to it, I implemented as many tips as I came across, but none of them was as effective as guest blogging.