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How effective is Free or Paid Guest Posting on Authority Blogs ?

by freotech
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I was wondering if anyone having luck with Paid Guest Posting ? Is it good for SEO ? Traffic ?

Can you post product reviews with affiliate link ?
#affiliate #authority #blog #blogging #blogs #effective #guest #posting
  • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
    I'd like to know more about this, too.

    This article says that Google's algorithm is changing to better determine quality posts:

    Penguin 2.0: How Guest Blogging Will Be Affected

    (I am not affiliated with the above link in any way. Just thought it was a good article and would like to hear what the article marketing experts have to say about it.)
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Originally Posted by freotech View Post

    I was wondering if anyone having luck with Guest Posting ? Is it good for SEO ? Traffic ?

    Can you post product reviews with affiliate link ?
    For any given article, 'luck' can be the operative word. Some posts will garner a bunch of traffic, others not much. That's why you keep putting out content over time.

    It can be good for SEO, if your post really is on an "authority blog". If it's on a big blog with a bunch of random guest posts, probably not so much. Especially if the article linked in post #2 is correct about Panda 2.0.

    It can bring bursts of high-quality traffic, followed by dribs and drabs over months or years.

    As for posting affiliate reviews, I've yet to see a true authority blog accept those as guest posts. In fact, I'd say that affiliates trying to do things like this are what lead to real bloggers making life tougher.

    BTW, when I say things like 'true authority blog' or 'real bloggers', I mean sites where whoever runs the site cares about what's published under their banner. As opposed to imitations set to auto-accept any piece of crap that floats in.
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  • Profile picture of the author salmanijaz
    i think its waste of time now ... there is a very little chance of your post getting approved by the website owner, so instead of posting 50 - 100 comments and hoping that some of them are approved, its better to spend this time writing quality article and submit it in quality directories like ezine etc ...

    Just my 0.02 ...
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  • Profile picture of the author MovingAround
    Originally Posted by freotech View Post

    I was wondering if anyone having luck with Paid Guest Posting ? Is it good for SEO ? Traffic ?

    Can you post product reviews with affiliate link ?
    I've done some guest posting and in 20% of the articles I had posted, the webmaster turned the links to nofollow after a month; this were "reputable" sites and my posts were unique and better than the actual content on the sites. Of course, I called them out on this and the majority put the links back to dofollow. The other guy refused, so I brought the matters to Google and got the particular page with my article deindexed from his site; I then posted the same article on my site and I'm enjoying almost 300 visitors per day to just that article alone Could not be happier.

    All I can say is be careful and ensure that the webmaster knows of the guest blogging protocol and etiquette. Also, if you can get your Google Autorship inserted then even better.
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