A guest post a day keeps all Google penalties away.
This is the motto that I live by and you should too. Before I get into guest posting and how to get more guest posts accepted, I think it is better to understand exactly what are guest posts.
What are guest posts?
A guest post is simply a great piece of content that is posted on another bloggers site as opposed to your own. One way to tell if a guest post is good enough for another blog is to ask yourself, “Would I place this on my blog?” If your answer is no, then that is probably what the other bloggers answer is going to be as well.
Now, I am not going to get into some of the basics of guest posts because honestly, you should know them by now. Bloggers have put enough emphasis on guest posts for quite some time and if you have not started writing them, then you are behind and have some catching up to do. For most bloggers, guest posts are the only form of ethical link building out there and that is why they participate in id.
I am writing this guest post today with one goal in mind – to teach you how to get more guest posts accepted. So, lets get started, shall we?
How To Get More Guest Posts Accepted
Network With Other Bloggers
Networking is one of the best ways to get your guest posts accepted. I know for a fact that some of my guest posts would not have been published if it wasn’t for my friendship with the blog owner. The key here is not to spam their blog and comment 5 times on each post (unless it is relevant), they key is to email the blogger with suggestions, promote their content on social media sites and even link to their blog from your site. Doing all of this can get the blog owners attention and that is the trick to building a network.
Read Other Blogs
Just because you sent a link to another blogger doesn’t mean they owe you anything. What you should consider is reading as many blog posts as you can on that particular blog until you get a good idea of who their readers are and what they have to offer. If you don’t read the blog that you want to write a guest post for, then you won’t have any idea of what kind of guest post will be best. Just do yourself and the blogger a favor and read their content before you try to submit a guest post about a topic that has already been covered or doesn’t pertain to the niche one bit.
Ms. Ileane says the biggest mistake people make when requesting guest posts here is not following the instructions which are clearly stated on the contact page.
Email Blog Owner With Ideas
Do you know that the biggest mistake a guest blogger can make is to assume that the blog owner will accept a guest post from them about any topic relating to their niche? I say this because it has happened to me many times in the past. What I would do is write a guest post and then submit it to a blog owner, hoping they would accept it. It wasn’t until Daniel Scocco over at Dailyblogtips.com told me that he already had a post similar to mine that was already scheduled to be published.
It is because of my mistakes that I want to help you avoid this same thing. Just email the blog owner with the idea you have for a guest post and see if they would be open to you writing it. What is the worst thing that could happen – they either say no or they give you a different topic to write about.
Create Killer Content
Writing a guest post is easy, however, creating a killer piece is a lot harder. When creating killer content you have to do extensive research on your topic, you must go above and beyond, it should cater to the blogs audience and most importantly, it is an article that readers want to share. Whether you are writing a guest post about blogging, business or even lung cancer (who shares articles on lung cancer?), the article must be good enough to get people to Tweet their followers and share it with their friends.
Failure to create killer content is one of the leading causes of guest post being denied. Although, every blogger has a different style, we can all agree that a well thought out and written article is never out of style. This is why creating killer content is more than enough to get your guest posts accepted no matter how good your relationship with that blog owner is.
As you can see, getting more guest posts accepted does not take a lot more than what you are doing now. If you spend the time writing a guest post, then you should make sure it is published on the best blog possible. This is why networking is so important, as well as the rest of the key points that I talked about above.
I could go on and on about guest posts, how to write one, ways to get more traffic, tricks to get your guest posts to rank higher and so on, however, it is time for you to take action. So, if you have anything to add, then please comment below but if not, then start networking with other bloggers today.