Guest Blogging?

14 years ago

No. It's not safe to assume that.

You should research those sites and see which ones reach the most people.

The top site could be just an information site and the number 10 site have an ezine with 1,000,000 readers.

Don't look at guest blogging from link building terms but how you can reach the most people.

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JimDucharme

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

No. It's not safe to assume that.

You should research those sites and see which ones reach the most people.

The top site could be just an information site and the number 10 site have an ezine with 1,000,000 readers.

Don't look at guest blogging from link building terms but how you can reach the most people.

Andy

I agree with Andy. Find out what blogs are considered authority sites with the community you want to reach. Check out the comment action and see if the discussion is lively too. How often do they post new content and so on.

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jim

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RevenueGal

14 years ago

Guest blogging is a wonderful opportunity. Look for active blogs in your niche where the community is thriving. Most will require exclusive content, and this is good since it makes the blog higher quality.

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3genter

14 years ago

Originally Posted by RevenueGal

Guest blogging is a wonderful opportunity. Look for active blogs in your niche where the community is thriving. Most will require exclusive content, and this is good since it makes the blog higher quality.

Agreed you don't exclusive content equals a high quality site, in-turn will give you high quality backlinks.

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tamiro1992

14 years ago

Originally Posted by RevenueGal

Guest blogging is a wonderful opportunity. Look for active blogs in your niche where the community is thriving. Most will require exclusive content, and this is good since it makes the blog higher quality.

very well put. quality backlinks are very important. when you have backlinks with content related to your site it can be better then 100 regular backlinks

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14 years ago

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nm5419

14 years ago

Originally Posted by trnz

I am having a go at guest blogging. When i google for suitable sites is it safe to believe that the ones on page one and/or near the top are the best ones to go for? Some of them insist on the content being exclusive to them i.e
I can't use it elsewhere. What do you think about this? Would it include my own blog? Any advice at all is welcome.

You can find a bunch of places here: » 500+ Places to Syndicate Your Content

And yes, exclusivity is a requirement. You cannot publish the same content on your own blog.

Good luck!

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by nm5419

And yes, exclusivity is a requirement. You cannot publish the same content on your own blog.

This is completely wrong.

:rolleyes:

All the guest posts I have ever submitted in 3 years (and that's a lot, now!) have been previously published on one of my own blogs.

Originally Posted by trnz

is it safe to believe that the ones on page one and/or near the top are the best ones to go for?

No - it isn't wise to assume that at all.

The best ones for you to go for are the ones that have the highest concentration of readers at whom your site is very highly targeted.

Originally Posted by trnz

Some of them insist on the content being exclusive to them i.e I can't use it elsewhere. What do you think about this?

Well, it's just silly, isn't it? :rolleyes:

I've been doing some guest blogging, on and off, for nearly 3 years, now, and nobody's ever asked me whether the content I'm providing is "previously unpublished", or expected that.

Some of their webmasters have been among the huge number of people who also syndicate content from Ezine Articles, and they'd hardly be doing that if they wouldn't accept previously published work, would they?

So, clearly, by definition, it can't possibly be right to state that you "cannot" publish the same content on your own blog. This bizarre assertion obviously doesn't stand up to examination even for a second, does it?

I suppose it's just about conceivable, if I found some super authority site with enormous traffic I could reach no other way, which (for some very strange reason) would accept only previously unpublished content, that I might be willing to re-write something for them ("never say 'never',"!) but it certainly hasn't happened yet.

I strongly suspect that the majority of people to whom that matters have simply failed to appreciate the huge differences between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content". :p

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nm5419

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This is completely wrong.

:rolleyes:

Well seeing there's a simple way to demonstrate your position, prove it.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by nm5419

Well seeing there's a simple way to demonstrate your position, prove it.

If you think about it for a second instead of making sweepingly inaccurate statements, Dave, I think you may manage to see the point for yourself.

As stated in the post to which you replied, some of the webmasters of the many sites on which I've done guest blogging have been among the large number of people who also syndicate some of their content from Ezine Articles, and from other places. Now they'd hardly be doing that, if they didn't republish previously published articles, would they?

I think we can all see that, by definition, it can't possibly be right to state that you "cannot" publish the same content on your own blog.

It just doesn't stand up to examination at all. :rolleyes:

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nm5419

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

If you think about it for a second instead of making sweepingly inaccurate statements, Dave, I think you may manage to see the point for yourself.

Where are these "sweeping inaccurate statements," exactly?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by nm5419

Where are these "sweeping inaccurate statements," exactly?

The one in this thread is in post #6, where you said, completely wrongly: "You cannot publish the same content on your own blog". Which has already been effortlessly disproved, just above.

Much though it's a pleasure to demonstrate your misinformation to other people, Dave, just to make sure they don't take it seriously, I now have better things to do than to let it turn into yet another one of these conversations, so please excuse me.

Have the last word, by all means.

Knock yourself out.

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nm5419

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

The one in this thread is in post #6, where you said, completely wrongly: "You cannot publish the same content on your own blog". Which has already been effortlessly disproved, just above.

Much though it's a pleasure to demonstrate your misinformation to other people, Dave, just to make sure they don't take it seriously, I now have better things to do than to let it turn into yet another one of these conversations, so please excuse me.

Have the last word, by all means.

Knock yourself out.

You haven't demonstrated anything other than an incapability to publically acknowledge what exclusive content is or means. And thanks to you, that is what this thread has unfortunately turned into.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by matt5409

ALL blogs i have come across require a unique post if guest writing.

Then you've come across the wrong ones. Think about what you're saying for a moment, Matt. Do all the huge number of webmasters who syndicate content from Ezine Articles for their blogs require their articles to be "unique posts"? No, clearly not. The articles from there that they re-publish on their own sites have all been previously published, by definition, haven't they? In Ezine Articles, and usually before that on their authors' own sites, yes? And those are articles, by definition, "available for syndication", otherwise they wouldn't be sitting in an article directory, because that's what an article directory's there for, to list that content, yes? So they can become widely syndicated, too, yes? But that doesn't prevent people from re-publishing them, does it? (No!).

So, when someone syndicates one of your articles from Ezine Articles and you contact them offering to do guest-blogging on their site (and this can include some real authority sites), they can hardly tell you that "they only accept previously unpublished content", can they?

:confused:

The reality is that they don't even ask. Because (as we already know) it isn't something that matters to them.

Rightly!

They re-publish content that they want to share with their their readers/subscribers.

That's what content marketing is. That's how the whole thing works.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

As mentioned above, all the guest blog posts I have ever submitted in the last 3 years have been previously published on one of my own sites. It's a simple, factual statement. Sorry!

There are also, of course, other blogs which announce that they accept only previously unpublished content from guest bloggers. And this thread was started off by someone asking the question "What do you think about that?". And my answer to it was (and is) "Well, it's just silly, isn't it?". Who needs them? :p

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kochtgr

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Then you've come across the wrong ones. Think about what you're saying for a moment, Matt. Do all the huge number of webmasters who syndicate content from Ezine Articles for their blogs require their articles to be "unique posts"? No, clearly not. The articles from there that they re-publish on their own sites have all been previously published, by definition, haven't they? In Ezine Articles, and usually before that on their authors' own sites, yes? And those are articles, by definition, "available for syndication", otherwise they wouldn't be sitting in an article directory, because that's what an article directory's there for, to list that content, yes? So they can become widely syndicated, too, yes? But that doesn't prevent people from re-publishing them, does it? (No!).

So, when someone syndicates one of your articles from Ezine Articles and you contact them offering to do guest-blogging on their site (and this can include some real authority sites), they can hardly tell you that "they only accept previously unpublished content", can they?

:confused:

The reality is that they don't even ask. Because (as we already know) it isn't something that matters to them.

Rightly!

They re-publish content that they want to share with their their readers/subscribers.

That's what content marketing is. That's how the whole thing works.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5035794

As mentioned above, all the guest blog posts I have ever submitted in the last 3 years have been previously published on one of my own sites. It's a simple, factual statement. Sorry!

There are also, of course, other blogs which announce that they accept only previously unpublished content from guest bloggers. And this thread was started off by someone asking the question "What do you think about that?". And my answer to it was (and is) "Well, it's just silly, isn't it?". Who needs them? :p

Alexa you probably didn't guest post on authority and high traffic blogs because there is no possible way an authority blog would allow someone to republish an already published article (not even rewrite).

I have a multi author blog and I know most of the top bloggers in the IM niche. I am sure none of us would like to republish an article no matter how good it is, since the point of blogging is to give the most up to date and informational content on the web to your readers.

So please anyone who wants to guest blog should write unique, informative and exclusive articles, otherwise he/she will just waste his/her time "and the bloggers time who read it and check it for plagiarism"

Guest blogging it's not article marketing, it's not just about the links, the most valuable benefit of guest blogging is that you build relations with influential bloggers and their audience.

Of course if you guest post in a low quality, low traffic blog which publish a post once per month and use ezines as a source to find articles for his/her blog you might get accepted with a non unique article but you cannot expect to get anything from this, it would be better to publish it in 1.000.000.000 article directories:p

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JimDucharme

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kochtgr

Guest blogging it's not article marketing, it's not just about the links, the most valuable benefit of guest blogging is that you build relations with influential bloggers and their audience.

Fascinating discussion here. I have to agree with the quoted statement above. You build relations and brand recognition and establish influence. I do quite a bit of guest blogging and contributing and I don't sweat the backlinks -- that's not my primary reason for doing it.

In one case with a major online publication, they simply asked me to re-write a (previously published) post to avoid any duplication issues with Google. However, in most of my dealings with publications, when it is a guest post, I retain the ownership of that content and simply allow them to carry it (Which isn't to say that those blogs would be thrilled to see my post all over the place). However, I have been asked to grant exclusivity to some publishers even when its a guest post. I guess it depends on how much clout they think they weild.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by kochtgr

Alexa you probably didn't guest post on authority and high traffic blogs

I've done guest-blogging posts on plenty of authority and high-traffic blogs over the past couple of years, thanks.

Originally Posted by kochtgr

there is no possible way an authority blog would allow someone to republish an already published article (not even rewrite).

This is utter nonsense, I'm afraid - it's just pure fiction.

Sorry - I'm not trying to be impolite for the sake of it: I just think it's a great and avoidable shame if people read stuff like this and end up actually believing it, as some of them may, and as I once did myself.

:rolleyes:

It typifies the kind of misinformation that I myself relied on, when I first started, which was why I earned next-to-nothing for about 4 months.

Originally Posted by kochtgr

Guest blogging it's not article marketing, it's not just about the links

Indeed not.

And neither is article marketing.

Article marketing isn't "a form of SEO".

But if you think of article marketing as being "just about the links", then it goes part of the way to explaining why you have the belief-set you apparently do about guest blogging, too.

Originally Posted by kochtgr

the most valuable benefit of guest blogging is that you build relations with influential bloggers and their audience.

Indeed - exactly so. And exactly the same is true of article marketing. It's a relationship-building business. And although article marketing and guest blogging are two different things, this is one of the aspects they share.

Originally Posted by kochtgr

Of course if you guest post in a low quality, low traffic blog which publish a post once per month and use ezines as a source to find articles for his/her blog you might get accepted with a non unique article but you cannot expect to get anything from this

I think I agree, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "ezines". I'm hoping very much that you're not thinking of "Ezine Articles" as "ezines"?!

Even with your confusions about "article marketing", it'll really help you to appreciate the difference between an "ezine" and an "article directory": an "article directory is a website depository of content available for syndication, and an "ezine" is a sort of electronic-magazine, sent out by email to its subscribers. This little thread may help to clarify it for you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

"Ezine articles" is called "ezine articles" because it's a source of articles for ezines, not because it's "an ezine".

However, one can also get "non-unique" (as you put it) articles accepted in some high-traffic authority sites, including many owned/run by universities/colleges, with no difficulty at all. Provided of course, that the articles are written for syndication in the first place.

I've found that article marketing can lead to some guest blogging, too: sometimes a webmaster will syndicate an article, and when you then contact them to thank them and start building your relationship with them, guest blogging can come up pretty quickly in the conversation. It's already known, after all, by definition (a) that they like your writing, and (b) that they're willing and happy - as many are - to re-publish previously published material.

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kochtgr

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I've done guest-blogging posts on plenty of authority and high-traffic blogs over the past couple of years, thanks.

This is utter nonsense, I'm afraid - it's just pure fiction.

Sorry - I'm not trying to be impolite for the sake of it: I just think it's a great and avoidable shame if people read stuff like this and end up actually believing it, as some of them may, and as I once did myself.

It typifies the kind of misinformation that I myself relied on, when I first started, which was why I earned next-to-nothing for about 4 months.

Indeed not.

And neither is article marketing.

Article marketing isn't "a form of SEO".

But if you think of article marketing as being "just about the links", then it goes part of the way to explaining why you have the belief-set you apparently do about guest blogging, too.

Indeed - exactly so. And exactly the same is true of article marketing. It's a relationship-building business. And although article marketing and guest blogging are two different things, this is one of the aspects they share.

I think I agree, but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "ezines". I'm hoping very much that you're not thinking of "Ezine Articles" as "ezines"?!

Even with your confusions about "article marketing", it'll really help you to appreciate the difference between an "ezine" and an "article directory": an "article directory is a website depository of content available for syndication, and an "ezine" is a sort of electronic-magazine, sent out by email to its subscribers. This little thread may help to clarify it for you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

"Ezine articles" is called "ezine articles" because it's a source of articles for ezines, not because it's "an ezine".

However, one can also get "non-unique" (as you put it) articles accepted in some high-traffic authority sites, including many owned/run by universities/colleges, with no difficulty at all. Provided of course, that the articles are written for syndication in the first place.

I've found that article marketing can lead to some guest blogging, too: sometimes a webmaster will syndicate an article, and when you then contact them to thank them and start building your relationship with them, guest blogging can come up pretty quickly in the conversation. It's already known, after all, by definition (a) that they like your writing, and (b) that they're willing and happy - as many are - to re-publish previously published material.

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Alexa you are really funny

you should become a layer

(maybe you are!!!)

Explaining the difference of ezines and ezine articles it's just an overkill, anyway of course I meant "ezine articles" and other article directories I just didn't want to write all this phrase:p

Can you share with us what authority blogs accepted your non unique non exclusive articles and did you tell them that these articles are not unique. Something else have you checked your articles after the publishing day of your not unique articles because your links might not be there anymore

A final word, there is no point to argue about this here, anyone who wants to guest post on a blog he/she should first check the rules of the blogger.

Even though 99% of blogs state clearly that they accept only unique and exclusive content that can not be used as a whole anywhere else on the web without giving credit to the source (the blog) (of course someone can use an excerpt which will link to the original article) they might find those 1% blogs or less that don't care about uniqueness and exclusivity.

"Most of the times exclusivity it's only about the web, so someone can publish his/her article offline"

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JohnMcCabe

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kochtgr

Even though 99% of blogs state clearly that they accept only unique and exclusive content that can not be used as a whole anywhere else on the web without giving credit to the source (the blog) (of course someone can use an excerpt which will link to the original article) they might find those 1% blogs or less that don't care about uniqueness and exclusivity.

I'm just curious, maybe it's the latent engineer in the back of my head poking me, but here's my query...

Since I'm pretty sure you haven't devoted your life to verifying each and every blog on the Internet, how big was the sample you used to provide statistical validity to this statement?

Or is it hyperbole used to make a point, disguised as an actual statistic?

Enquiring minds want to know...

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absolutelee

14 years ago

Guest blogging in general is aimed at attracting human visitors to your site, not necessarily boosting you in the SERPs, although it can do that. Just looking at the top sites on a Google search is probably not the best way to figure out who are the real players. You might want to consider something like Technorati.

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matt5409

14 years ago

@alexa - obviously you are often the go-to-girl on this topic, but whether right or wrong i must argue that ALL blogs i have come across require a unique post if guest writing.

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matt5409

14 years ago

Hey, didnt say it was right or wrong - the jury will always be out on that one! However I have guest blogged dozens of times and they always request previously unpublished material. So this is what I provide. More than happy if *that* gets syndicated

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14 years ago

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matt5409

14 years ago

Originally Posted by techie21

Guest blog posting is a very effective method for online marketing. It gives more exposure for your brand and website by introducing yourself to the audiences. The more people finds you in different location, the more they will grow to like and trust you.
Another opportunity is to get backlinks, more traffic and leads from the blog. Your post will be permanent and will continue to send traffic to your site over time. One such blog that I found is techmagnets(dot) com where I had submitted my guest post and now I am getting daily traffic from this website.

is this YOUR website? gettout.

Originally Posted by 3drendering

dnt have any idea about it..

nice contribution... :rolleyes:

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lecorcans

14 years ago

Read more about guest blogging. It will give a better understanding on what to do.

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Dimagiba

14 years ago

Thanks Alexa Smith, I found your answer very informative. Especially to me.

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Viramara

14 years ago

Been doing guest blogging for a while, and it depends on the website owner policy. Blogs aren't same with article directories and therefore not as strict. Most of them indeed asked previously unpublished but I usually just manually re-write (not spin) the article with different style, format, and adding my own stories that's not published in other places. Waiting for weeks to approve but the traffic resulted afterward worths it. But the only thing I wary about guest bloggging is the blog traffic, does the blog has enough quality traffic to submit my article to? Some people guest blogging for backlink juice, but I rather do it for traffic....because the blogs I've been guest writing for already has loyal visitors who keep checking postings update.

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Brendan Vraibel

14 years ago

Quick question for you, Alexa, if you don't mind. I've seen you say it a couple of times that when you find an article of yours syndicated, you'll contact the site owner and ask if they'd like you to guest blog. Of course, I understand why you would do that but is there an advantage for the owner to accept your offer when they can just get a post of yours from ezine since it wouldn't be unique anyways?

Just trying to understand the whole syndication process a bit better.

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Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Brendan Vraibel

Quick question for you, Joe, if you don't mind. I've seen you say it a couple of times that when you find an article of yours syndicated, you'll contact the site owner and ask if they'd like you to guest blog. Of course, I understand why you would do that but is there an advantage for the owner to accept your offer when they can just get a post of yours from ezine since it wouldn't be unique anyways?

Just trying to understand the whole syndication process a bit better.

I got this.

In essence, your content is the benefit that your syndication partner will be receiving. That and the fact that they get said content directly from you and before you actually post it to a directory like EZA. It streamlines the publishing process for them. It also shows publishers that you are appreciative of the fact that they published your work (and thus strengthening your relationship).

Once you get things going, you will become less dependent on using EZA for passive syndication. (I believe Alexa stated that she drops her articles there last "as an afterthought"). Think of EZA as nothing more than a way to get your foot in the door, so that you don't have to go "cold calling" potential syndication partners. Although that is an option as well.

Hope that helped out.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Hi Brendan,

Originally Posted by Brendan Vraibel

Quick question for you, Alexa, if you don't mind. I've seen you say it a couple of times that when you find an article of yours syndicated, you'll contact the site owner and ask if they'd like you to guest blog. Of course, I understand why you would do that but is there an advantage for the owner to accept your offer when they can just get a post of yours from ezine since it wouldn't be unique anyways?

Just trying to understand the whole syndication process a bit better.

Yes, sure ... what I'm offering them when I contact them is material not in EZA.

The reality, among people with decent sites/ezines who habitually syndicate content from EZA is that nearly always they'll already have looked at my (pen-name's) author profile and other articles there, and either "taken more for later" or at least "bookmarked more for later". But from their perspective, as well as from the article marketer's, of course, it's a "relationship-building business" and people who want content to syndicate seem typically to be pretty pleased to build relationships with potential content-providers. No great surprise there, though?

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Brendan Vraibel

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Joe Robinson

I got this.

In essence, your content is the benefit that your syndication partner will be receiving. That and the fact that they get said content directly from you and before you actually post it to a directory like EZA. It streamlines the publishing process for them. It also shows publishers that you are appreciative of the fact that they published your work (and thus strengthening your relationship).

Once you get things going, you will become less dependent on using EZA for passive syndication. (I believe Alexa stated that she drops her articles there last "as an afterthought"). Think of EZA as nothing more than a way to get your foot in the door, so that you don't have to go "cold calling" potential syndication partners. Although that is an option as well.

Hope that helped out.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Hi Brendan,

Yes, sure ... what I'm offering them when I contact them is material not in EZA.

The reality, among people with decent sites/ezines who habitually syndicate content from EZA is that nearly always they'll already have looked at my (pen-name's) author profile and other articles there, and either "taken more for later" or at least "bookmarked more for later". But from their perspective, as well as from the article marketer's, of course, it's a "relationship-building business" and people who want content to syndicate seem typically to be pretty pleased to build relationships with potential content-providers. No great surprise there, though?

Understood. Thanks for the replies Joe and Alexa. Very helpful as always.

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Ben Armstrong 14 years ago

I prefer to directly approach the owners of sites I want to guest blog on. It doesn't take long to email about 20 different people and from that I find I usually get about 5 green lights.
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JanusNg

14 years ago

I think guest posting is a great way for driving targeted traffic and building quality links at the same time. Whether or not the content should be exclusive depends on the site's guidelines.

For example, Technorati allows you to republish the content as long as it's first published on their site. Here's an excerpt taken from their site:

"Articles must be written in English, published first on Technorati and will be reviewed by the “seasoned” Technorati Editorial Team..."

On the other hand, DailyBlogTips does not allow you to publish the guest post elsewhere. Here's an excerpt:

"Your post must be original and must have never been published before on the Internet...You agree to not publish the post anywhere else (i.e., in your own blog or as a guest post in other blogs)..."

But whether you comply with their rules, and/or whether they enforce on theirs, is another question.

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sbucciarel

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by trnz

I am having a go at guest blogging. When i google for suitable sites is it safe to believe that the ones on page one and/or near the top are the best ones to go for? Some of them insist on the content being exclusive to them i.e
I can't use it elsewhere. What do you think about this? Would it include my own blog? Any advice at all is welcome.

If I accepted a guest blogger, the content would have to be unique to my blog and not used elsewhere. What would be the benefit to me to let people post duplicate content on my blog?

Choose the ones that you ask about guest blogging by popularity. A blog that pulls in the readers like Shoemoney or Problogger would be better than a site that provides just information to sell an affiliate product.

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WilsonJ

14 years ago

The discussion is getting interesting here..
I have two things to add/ask here..

1. I was wondering if I want to guest post on some blog/website, how should I search which one of them is relevant and will accept my blog post. I tried Googling them but the results arent that good. I even checked the Top 100 categories of technorati but to no avail..

2. If I go for the other way around..like I want some bloggers who can write for me/my website/my product or even my organization then how should I approach them.

Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated

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kochtgr

14 years ago

Originally Posted by WilsonJ

The discussion is getting interesting here..
I have two things to add/ask here..

1. I was wondering if I want to guest post on some blog/website, how should I search which one of them is relevant and will accept my blog post. I tried Googling them but the results arent that good. I even checked the Top 100 categories of technorati but to no avail..

2. If I go for the other way around..like I want some bloggers who can write for me/my website/my product or even my organization then how should I approach them.

Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated

There are a few communities where you can find many bloggers asking for guest posts, the most popular are myblogguest.com and BloggerLinkUp.com

Recently I published a guest post about both of them and additionally how to use Google to find blogs in your niche that accept guest posts.

Check it out and let me know if you found it helpful...
The 3 Easiest Ways to Get Started Guest Blogging

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trnz

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kochtgr

There are a few communities where you can find many bloggers asking for guest posts, the most popular are myblogguest.com and BloggerLinkUp.com

Recently I published a guest post about both of them and additionally how to use Google to find blogs in your niche that accept guest posts.

Check it out and let me know if you found it helpful...
The 3 Easiest Ways to Get Started Guest Blogging

GREAT!!! 2 great sites and a great guest blog which I found VERY HELPFUL

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Nicola Lane

14 years ago

I had a little time today so I decided to take up a "challenge" set down by another warrior.

To save everyone the bother of scrolling up and down the thread I will reproduce the relevant portions of the "challenge" exchange:

Originally Posted by nm5419

You can find a bunch of places here: » 500+ Places to Syndicate Your Content

And yes, exclusivity is a requirement. You cannot publish the same content on your own blog.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

This is completely wrong.

:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by nm5419

Well seeing there's a simple way to demonstrate your position, prove it.

I took the list kindly provided by Dave and started investigating:

1. Bloggers Base

From their faq, found here: BloggersBase F.A.Q. Page

Please note: BloggersBase does not require exclusivity we encourage you to publish all your posts on your own personal blog as well. We'll also gladly link your profile and posts to your sites of choice.

2. Blog Engage

The whole idea of blog engage is that you submit articles from your blog to them - this is what their faq has to say, found here: Blog Engage FAQ | Blog Engage Blog Traffic

Blog Engage allows you to submit your Blog Article(s) that will be placed in queue and promoted by our members to the front page. The ideal of Blog Engage is to promote interaction between bloggers by "Engaging" with each others blogs. Interaction that builds up quality comments and interactive discussions.

3. Blog Carnival

From the faq, fond here: Blog Carnival - Frequently Asked Questions

A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks.

4. Technorati

From the "write for technorati" page, found here: Apply to write for Technorati - Technorati

Articles must be written in English, published first on Technorati and will be reviewed by the "seasoned" Technorati Editorial Team.

Please note, that is "published first" and not "exclusive"

So - the first four on the list don't require exclusive content.

I think you will find that most blogs requiring exclusive content are those run by internet marketers.

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drmani 14 years ago

I guest blog on high traffic blogs in the IM niche, including
'Entrepreneurs Journey' and 'Problogger'.

One of the requirements is that my content is unique to these
blogs, though none have explicitly forbidden me from re-posting
them AFTER they are published on their blog.

Over the years, I've submitted content to around 100 different
high traffic resources, and the rules have varied. Generally,
the higher the site's popularity, the more likely they have
been to require unique content that is published first to
their site. Some expressly and explicitly forbid using the
content elsewhere - including my own site/blog.

My impression: There are no 'general' guidelines. Each case
will be different. Check the terms involved, and decide if it
is worth creating unique/exclusive content for other sites as
a part of your content strategy.

All success
Dr.Mani

P.S. - Incidentally, the "rights to first publication" issue is pretty standard
practice in academic publishing. Try sending a scientific article to a
reputed journal, while telling them it has already been published somewhere
else!
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- fin 14 years ago
  
  Speaking as someone who hopes he has a little common sense - surely deciding whether to offer unique content comes down to a business position.
  
  If it will cost you more money to produce the article than what you will get out of it, then don't do it.
  
  If writing a unique article will produce more than the cost of writing it; ie a blog with 100,000 visitors per month, targeted, they respect their blog author - then surely that's just good business.
  
  Refusing to offer unique content in that instant would be a bad business decision, IMO.
  
  Alternatively, if you make enough money from content you can syndicate and are happy, then stick to that.
  
  Or maybe do both.
  
  If people want to write spun articles for backlinks, then good on you.
  
  It's quite funny to see this topic turn into a massive argument between tens of people every two days. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it so don't stop:p, but maybe all of you should make a thread that could be a sticky for unsuspecting newbies, lol.
  
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Michael Harrington

14 years ago

I love guest blogging.
I have guest Blogged on a few sites, and I have had Guest Bloggers on my site.
It is a win/win situation.
Just make sure you are all in the same niche.

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MaryMartha

14 years ago

guest blogging good for hug traffic, i have guest blogging site

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OrangutanMarketing

14 years ago

Happy new year everyone!

Another way to find a good place to guest post (besides doing your own research) is by checking out the top site in your niche and have a look a the websites of some of the commentors on it.

Some will be like yourself, but others could be quite influential people in that niche or even friends of the site owner him/ herself.

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14 years ago

Select a blog which suits your niche and analyze that site whether it suits for your needs,

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14 years ago

Hi, You need to search proper niche community site for guest blog posting.

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14 years ago

By guest blogging you’re being exposed to the audience of another blogger who don’t know or care about you so they will always give their honest opinion of you. This helps improve your work and make it easy for others to move along with you.

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freaky316

14 years ago

if you use the same content in many sites, then it will become a copied content and it does not have link juice!

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MattCatania

14 years ago

^^ Wow. So little contributed within the last few replies.

It's truly amazing how much misinformation there is out there.

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Nicola Lane

14 years ago

Matt, the thing is that actually reading the thread and making a sensible contribution would mean they couldn't get thier sig link exposed as much.

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zakizarifah

14 years ago

I got more confused.

Is guess blogging part of syndication or we guess blog in hope that our content get syndicate?

Help, PLEASE.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by zakizarifah

Is guess blogging part of syndication or we guess blog in hope that our content get syndicate?

It can be either/both.

"Guest blogging" has many things in common with article syndication. So much so that some would say that it is, really, article syndication. (I seem to recall Joseph Robinson saying that a couple of days ago, and I seem to recall agreeing with him, too). But it can also - in a sense - be a step in a relationship-building process, somewhere in-between "commenting" and "article syndication" per se. The possible difference between "guest blogging" and "article syndication" is that some people are even willing to write/submit "unique content" to an impressive enough niche blog, for the sake of that relationship-building, and in the process give someone else's site content that hasn't previously been published and indexed on their own site. Churlish skepchick that I am, I'm not willing to do that, myself, and I've never found it necessary.

Some people (apparently) believe fairly firmly that "other people's blogs will only publish previously unpublished content". With no wish to resurrect the argument, they're just mistaken about that, as can be seen clearly enough from much of the discussion on the previous page.

Don't take too much notice of parts of this thread, though, Zak: it was mostly a year ago, and substantial parts of it were simply "debate" with a particularly provocative troll who was banned shortly after his "contributions" to this thread and some others around the same time (his comments appear above with the label "guest" below his name, signifying that he was banned permanently without his posts all being deleted). Not to be taken too seriously.

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zakizarifah

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It can be either/both.

"Guest blogging" has many things in common with article syndication. So much so that some would say that it is, really, article syndication. (I seem to recall Joseph Robinson saying that a couple of days ago, and I seem to recall agreeing with him, too). But it can also - in a sense - be a step in a relationship-building process, somewhere in-between "commenting" and "article syndication" per se. The possible difference between "guest blogging" and "article syndication" is that some people are even willing to write/submit "unique content" to an impressive enough niche blog, for the sake of that relationship-building, and in the process give someone else's site content that hasn't previously been published and indexed on their own site. Churlish skepchick that I am, I'm not willing to do that, myself, and I've never found it necessary.

Hi Alexa

Thank you for replying.

Now I understand If the site don't required for unique then I is article syndication. Hope I'm right.

Contribute unique content in exchange for relationship-building - Well I agree with you, I rather build my site then build other person site.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Some people (apparently) believe fairly firmly that "other people's blogs will only publish previously unpublished content". With no wish to resurrect the argument, they're just mistaken about that, as can be seen clearly enough from much of the discussion on the previous page.

Well then I guess I must always remember to read the blog rules or contact the blog owner before submit my already index article. - Note for me to remember.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Don't take too much notice of parts of this thread, though, Zak: it was mostly a year ago, and substantial parts of it were simply "debate" with a particularly provocative troll who was banned shortly after his "contributions" to this thread and some others around the same time (his comments appear above with the label "guest" below his name, signifying that he was banned permanently without his posts all being deleted). Not to be taken too seriously.

I'm so sorry if I'm about to start another "debate".

Thank you again for replying.

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