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Accepting Guest Posts Best Practices?

by wadboram
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Hello Warriors,

I've just starting to get some guest posts on my well ranked Car Industry blog and I would like to know your advice about how to get the best of it.

I'm concerned by the following points (provided I'll get unique, 400-500+ words and high quality articles):

1. Should I create a new category on my WP blog for guest bloggers? or should I embed the posts within the site?

2. Should I SEO each article before posting?

3. Any penalty for having such guest posts? after G. zoo animals being thrown online (Penguin, Panda, etc........) ?

4. Guest blogger will have 1-2 outbound links, should I include the main keyword with my site (internal link)?

I'd appreciate to have any other previous experience if you have been through this before
#accepting #guest #guest blog #posts #practices
  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    I do take guest authors for one of my blogs. I use PostRunner (which got accept to the Wordpress Plug-In Repository today!) to get some posts, and I solicit people to write other posts.

    I generally post the articles as-is. I feel that the author took the time to write it out, and I'd like my readers to see the work as it was intended, not as I'd like Google to see it. I've also created a "guest author" category and I label all of them with that so that I can track them more easily.

    As far as outbound links, Google is starting to like those as far as on-page SEO goes. Just make sure that they head out to reputable sites in your industry.

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    • Profile picture of the author fin
      I'd definitely have a stipulation allowing you to edit the articles if necessary. Don't feel you need to add something to your blog if it's going to bring down the user experience.

      I've been noticing recently that even big blogs like Copyblogger/Problogger publish articles with silly little mistakes that take away the overall flow of the article.

      Don't compromise on quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author wadboram
    @JaRyCu, Good idea, I will post the article as it is.

    @fin, yes, quality should be my first objective.

    Should I keep a certain ration between my posts and guest posts? I currently have around 70 posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author kalens99
    Create a terms of submission agreement. Let them know what kind of sites you will link to, that you have the right to edit and what content you are looking for. There is absolutely nothing bad about having guest posts for SEO, provided they are high quality. Too many people submit junk though so you have to watch that.

    Also, would you be willing to post or PM me the link? One of my colleagues needs to do a guest post on a car blog with a good Moz DA ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author wadboram
    I have received four good articles so far. I'll be posting them and see what will be results.
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