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Quit guest blogging to make money

by Max Greenflame
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Hi, this is Max. Learning guest blogging makes me wonder. It requires a lot of time and hard work to do research, write a post, get pictures, record videos and pass an exam waiting for it to be approved or rejected. Then, if it's published, you only receive some traffic for a certain period of time, after that the number of visits to your website drops down and you see no effect. Couple visits today, no visits tomorrow, dozen later.

You need to contribute guest posts regularly to achieve readership engagement and keep up your public recognition in the circles of blog audience you guest on. If that blog ceases or stops accepting guest posts your business suffers from losses.

Hiring guest bloggers is difficult. The author you pay has to write acceptable content for those blogs. It's often costly. There are also online services that make guest posts with guaranteed approvals on random highly ranked blogs of their choice in your niche. This is not effective because you've got to be a regular contributor on the same blogs. It's also not cost friendly - they normally charge $50-80 per post.

Meanwhile, you could just rent an ad space on the same popular blog you target. The price range varies $100-500 or more.

For something like $250/month you can get a profitable ad spot on a popular blog with thousands of visitors per day, all laser targeted high quality prospects for your business.

During the whole month your ad will be exposed to EVERYONE who arrives on the blog. Not to only those who finds a specific post located in a subcategory of specific category, hell hard to unearth. Plus, promote anything you want, you don't have to mask it, this is your ad.

How many guest posts do you need to achieve the same visibility, convert the same amount of traffic as with your blog ad? Tens, hundreds? Perfect, the price for your long term guest blogging is only worth $250. Good deal? Slavery.

OK, sure by guest blogging you build long term traffic sources to bring you unlimited income for years. However, are they reliable? You don't know what's gonna happen to your guest post tomorrow. If not tomorrow, in a month, in a year. It could be deleted, links removed, modified or just lose its interest. Your content might lose value, everything changes all the time. It can also be consigned to oblivion due to its newer updated, stronger duplicates submitted by your competitors to the same blog. Your guest content will also be kicked off first pages of search engines because newer content on the same blog or other blogs outranks yours.

Your posts will be kept unwanted and dusty in a huge vault of information.
I vote for blog ads. What about you?

I don't make any claims, this is my review and opinion, would like to know yours. Thanks.
#ads #blog #blogging #guest
  • Profile picture of the author Larry Leggett
    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    Hi, this is Max. Learning guest blogging makes me wonder. It requires a lot of time and hard work to do research, write a post, get pictures, record videos and pass an exam waiting for it to be approved or rejected. Then, if it's published, you only receive some traffic for a certain period of time, after that the number of visits to your website drops down and you see no effect. Couple visits today, no visits tomorrow, dozen later.

    You need to contribute guest posts regularly to achieve readership engagement and keep up your public recognition in the circles of blog audience you guest on. If that blog ceases or stops accepting guest posts your business suffers from losses.

    Hiring guest bloggers is difficult. The author you pay has to write acceptable content for those blogs. It's often costly. There are also online services that make guest posts with guaranteed approvals on random highly ranked blogs of their choice in your niche. This is not effective because you've got to be a regular contributor on the same blogs. It's also not cost friendly - they normally charge $50-80 per post.

    Meanwhile, you could just rent an ad space on the same popular blog you target. The price range varies $100-500 or more.

    For something like $250/month you can get a profitable ad spot on a popular blog with thousands of visitors per day, all laser targeted high quality prospects for your business.

    During the whole month your ad will be exposed to EVERYONE who arrives on the blog. Not to only those who finds a specific post located in a subcategory of specific category, hell hard to unearth. Plus, promote anything you want, you don't have to mask it, this is your ad.

    How many guest posts do you need to achieve the same visibility, convert the same amount of traffic as with your blog ad? Tens, hundreds? Perfect, the price for your long term guest blogging is only worth $250. Good deal? Slavery.

    OK, sure by guest blogging you build long term traffic sources to bring you unlimited income for years. However, are they reliable? You don't know what's gonna happen to your guest post tomorrow. If not tomorrow, in a month, in a year. It could be deleted, links removed, modified or just lose its interest. Your content might lose value, everything changes all the time. It can also be consigned to oblivion due to its newer updated, stronger duplicates submitted by your competitors to the same blog. Your guest content will also be kicked off first pages of search engines because newer content on the same blog or other blogs outranks yours.

    Your posts will be kept unwanted and dusty in a huge vault of information.
    I vote for blog ads. What about you?

    I don't make any claims, this is my review and opinion, would like to know yours. Thanks.
    You raised some good points here I think. To achieve good readership, it need regular contribution to a blog otherwise you will get a few traffic and that's it. I will definitely vote for Ad space in terms of getting traffic.

    But let me remind you, most of the guest bloggers does guest posting only for backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author DTGeorge
    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    Hi, this is Max. Learning guest blogging makes me wonder. It requires a lot of time and hard work to do research, write a post, get pictures, record videos and pass an exam waiting for it to be approved or rejected. Then, if it's published, you only receive some traffic for a certain period of time, after that the number of visits to your website drops down and you see no effect. Couple visits today, no visits tomorrow, dozen later.

    You need to contribute guest posts regularly to achieve readership engagement and keep up your public recognition in the circles of blog audience you guest on. If that blog ceases or stops accepting guest posts your business suffers from losses.

    Hiring guest bloggers is difficult. The author you pay has to write acceptable content for those blogs. It's often costly. There are also online services that make guest posts with guaranteed approvals on random highly ranked blogs of their choice in your niche. This is not effective because you've got to be a regular contributor on the same blogs. It's also not cost friendly - they normally charge $50-80 per post.

    Meanwhile, you could just rent an ad space on the same popular blog you target. The price range varies $100-500 or more.

    For something like $250/month you can get a profitable ad spot on a popular blog with thousands of visitors per day, all laser targeted high quality prospects for your business.

    During the whole month your ad will be exposed to EVERYONE who arrives on the blog. Not to only those who finds a specific post located in a subcategory of specific category, hell hard to unearth. Plus, promote anything you want, you don't have to mask it, this is your ad.

    How many guest posts do you need to achieve the same visibility, convert the same amount of traffic as with your blog ad? Tens, hundreds? Perfect, the price for your long term guest blogging is only worth $250. Good deal? Slavery.

    OK, sure by guest blogging you build long term traffic sources to bring you unlimited income for years. However, are they reliable? You don't know what's gonna happen to your guest post tomorrow. If not tomorrow, in a month, in a year. It could be deleted, links removed, modified or just lose its interest. Your content might lose value, everything changes all the time. It can also be consigned to oblivion due to its newer updated, stronger duplicates submitted by your competitors to the same blog. Your guest content will also be kicked off first pages of search engines because newer content on the same blog or other blogs outranks yours.

    Your posts will be kept unwanted and dusty in a huge vault of information.
    I vote for blog ads. What about you?

    I don't make any claims, this is my review and opinion, would like to know yours. Thanks.
    Hey Max,

    I see nothing wrong with both.

    There are several purposes to a good guest post - including demonstrating experience and authority, something that a banner ad cannot do.

    Also, you don't always have to pay people to guest post on their blog - there are probably hundreds of sites that accept guest posts in every niche either for free or where they pay you for your guest post.

    There are also many reputable and high traffic blogs that do NOT accept advertising of any kind - how do you reach their readers?

    Of course, you should never rely on only one method of promotion, but guest posting has a number of great benefits - including demonstrating authority, increasing your own site's SEO, that a banner ad cannot offer.

    That's my 2 cents anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    Much of the non-writing legwork can be outsourced. In fact, there are many people who can get you tons of juicy guest post leads with PR, niche relevancy, and contact form urls/emails -nicely formatted and ready to contact-for only $3.75 an hour.
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  • Profile picture of the author uttoransen
    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    Hi, this is Max. Learning guest blogging makes me wonder. It requires a lot of time and hard work to do research, write a post, get pictures, record videos and pass an exam waiting for it to be approved or rejected. Then, if it's published, you only receive some traffic for a certain period of time, after that the number of visits to your website drops down and you see no effect. Couple visits today, no visits tomorrow, dozen later.
    Good to know that you are learning about guest blogging.

    if you do guest blogging manually, yourself - then yes, it is a lot of work. And the benefits that you get, depends on the blog you have targeted. I have written for problogger - and got hundreds of visitors, and it kept coming after weeks. It still bring me some traffic everyday.

    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    You need to contribute guest posts regularly to achieve readership engagement and keep up your public recognition in the circles of blog audience you guest on. If that blog ceases or stops accepting guest posts your business suffers from losses.
    Not really! then you need to find some other blog. A blog can stop to accept ads too, or it just might shut down. You just move on. Use a different blog to guest post.

    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    Hiring guest bloggers is difficult. The author you pay has to write acceptable content for those blogs. It's often costly. There are also online services that make guest posts with guaranteed approvals on random highly ranked blogs of their choice in your niche. This is not effective because you've got to be a regular contributor on the same blogs. It's also not cost friendly - they normally charge $50-80 per post.
    most of those high quality blogs will charge more than $200+ for a monthly ad spot. so it is still cheap.

    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    Meanwhile, you could just rent an ad space on the same popular blog you target. The price range varies $100-500 or more.
    Exactly my point. and it stays for a month? so $500 for a monthly ad... or a permanent post that stays always for, say one/tenth of the ad price.

    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    For something like $250/month you can get a profitable ad spot on a popular blog with thousands of visitors per day, all laser targeted high quality prospects for your business.
    organic is always better than ad. guest post traffic converts better than ad. we might disagree on this - but most people will agree - that organic is better.

    also, say for $250 - you can get published on forbes/huff post - but even for $2500+ you won't get an ad on those.

    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    During the whole month your ad will be exposed to EVERYONE who arrives on the blog. Not to only those who finds a specific post located in a subcategory of specific category, hell hard to unearth. Plus, promote anything you want, you don't have to mask it, this is your ad.

    How many guest posts do you need to achieve the same visibility, convert the same amount of traffic as with your blog ad? Tens, hundreds? Perfect, the price for your long term guest blogging is only worth $250. Good deal? Slavery.
    give me an example of such an ad. for $250 - no high quality blog will accept your ad for a month.

    as for guest blogging - make a guest post on a huge blog for $250. for around that price, you can get published on any high quality blog. The post is permanent - it will rank in search engine due to the size of the blog it is getting published on - and the benefits will be available for years to come.

    Originally Posted by Max Greenflame View Post

    OK, sure by guest blogging you build long term traffic sources to bring you unlimited income for years. However, are they reliable? You don't know what's gonna happen to your guest post tomorrow. If not tomorrow, in a month, in a year. It could be deleted, links removed, modified or just lose its interest. Your content might lose value, everything changes all the time. It can also be consigned to oblivion due to its newer updated, stronger duplicates submitted by your competitors to the same blog. Your guest content will also be kicked off first pages of search engines because newer content on the same blog or other blogs outranks yours.
    From personal experience - i have blogs that are still live - after 5+ years of it being posted. Perhaps one in ten gets deleted... but that is ok. That much is affordable.

    Ad ad space costs a lot, it stays for a month... and it is nofollow. So no search benefits.

    As for guest blogging - one link from an authority site - can make your blog huge. One link from Nytimes/independent/mashable - can change your blog into an authority!

    Guest blogging is better than PPC.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Guest blogging has lost a bit of it's charm about making money as compared to the past, now it takes lot of hard work and time to reach closer to make money,
    and it's a fact now that guest blogging is now done only to get good targetted traffic and for backlinking only.
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    • Profile picture of the author DTGeorge
      Originally Posted by Moneymaker2012 View Post

      Guest blogging has lost a bit of it's charm about making money as compared to the past, now it takes lot of hard work and time to reach closer to make money,
      and it's a fact now that guest blogging is now done only to get good targetted traffic and for backlinking only.
      Wrong wrong wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author WordpressManiac
    I think guest blogging is really hard work, but it has a lot of advantages over advertising. The biggest one is the durability and longterm traffic in my eyes. Both methods have their place in marketing!
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