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Paying to Guest Post

by hockeyplayer85 Banned
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Hi all;

Getting accepted to write a guest post on a high-pr site can be both tedious, and (depending on the quality of your own site) a pain in the butt to get approval for anything higher than a Pr 2-3.

My question is, do you think that webmasters would be open to the concept of getting paid to have someone write a guest post on their site? The webmaster gets $$$ for getting new content added and the poster gets a valuable backlink to their own site. Sounds like a win/win...

Personally, I would pay about $20 for a PR1 or 2 and upwards of $100 for a PR5+

Any thoughts to this? Or, even better, is there a service that currently offers this kind of match-making?

Thanks for the comments

P.S. If you have a HighPR blog or site and you wouldn't mind getting some money for letting me write a guest post or two, do let me know!

P.P.S. Sorry if this is already a very well known strategy, just looking for some insights.

Chad
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Chad,

    Obviously webmasters would be interested in being paid. They (we) are a notoriously greedy and corrupt bunch

    I personally wouldn't do it, but I'm sure many will.
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  • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
    There are a lot of verticals (especially the coupon niche for some reason) where this is the norm.

    They literally have a normal "write for us" page to reel you in...and when you email them they send you their price list.

    Whether it's worth it or not depends on a million things, like your black hat/white hat stance, how easy it is to get links in your vertical etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author hockeyplayer85
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      Would we really class this a black-hat though? Yes, Google frowns on paid links (that's an understatement) but there is no way to tell that these are paid links for a start, and this would basically be the same principle as guest posting which is oft considered one of the whitest backlink methods available.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    If you submit new content it's most likely going on a new web page that doesn't have any PR (yet), so your not really buying any PR.

    If you can get a link on a site that has niche traffic, that's not a bad deal IMO, PR will might happen eventually on the new web page but the direct traffic would be a better deal IMO.
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    • Profile picture of the author hockeyplayer85
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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      If you submit new content it's most likely going on a new web page that doesn't have any PR (yet), so your not really buying any PR.

      If you can get a link on a site that has niche traffic, that's not a bad deal IMO, PR will might happen eventually on the new web page but the direct traffic would be a better deal IMO.

      Creating a new web page & buying a link on an existing web page with PR aren't the same things.
      This is a good point. But I think getting the link on a page without PR on a domain with high PR is a good practice. Not only that, but the trickle down of traffic (particularly niche traffic as you pointed out) would be an excellent factor to consider. Also, a well written article could gain PR based on the quality of site you were posting on if the links you were drawing from other authority sites in the same space were building up.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by hockeyplayer85 View Post

        This is a good point. But I think getting the link on a page without PR on a domain with high PR is a good practice. Not only that, but the trickle down of traffic (particularly niche traffic as you pointed out) would be an excellent factor to consider. Also, a well written article could gain PR based on the quality of site you were posting on if the links you were drawing from other authority sites in the same space were building up.
        If your page is one of thousands of pages on a domain & gets buried with no direct link from a higher authority/PR page/s, doubtful you'll ever see much of a PR increase (long term).
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        • Profile picture of the author ChevyCam
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          If your page is one of thousands of pages on a domain & gets buried with no direct link from a higher authority/PR page/s, doubtful you'll ever see much of a PR increase (long term).
          But it increases rankings, since mostly in guest posts everyone uses keyword anchor text.

          Also if that blog has a high traffic, you still can get some good traffic too if your article is interesting.

          After all SEO is for traffic anyways. So by leaving a guest post on high traffic website you can get traffic too.
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        • Profile picture of the author hockeyplayer85
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          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          If your page is one of thousands of pages on a domain & gets buried with no direct link from a higher authority/PR page/s, doubtful you'll ever see much of a PR increase (long term).
          This is true, however, the traffic benefits cannot be understated and the likelihood of a good article getting buried on a high PR site without at least 1 or 2 authority sites linking to it is highly improbable.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by hockeyplayer85 View Post

            This is true, however, the traffic benefits cannot be understated and the likelihood of a good article getting buried on a high PR site without at least 1 or 2 authority sites linking to it is highly improbable.
            If your shopping for links here on WF/SEO sub-forum, odds are your going to get a link on a backlink network, doubtful it will have much (If any) traffic. You might get a PR link at first but it will most likely roll off the Index page into oblivion (long term), unless you keep paying to bump your link back to an existing PR page.

            If your serious about buying links that generate niche traffic, this isn't the place to be (SEO sub-forum). Go to the authority sites in your niche, then work your way down the list until you get the links you want.

            Things like article directories are crap.
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            • Profile picture of the author hockeyplayer85
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              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              If your shopping for links here on WF/SEO sub-forum, odds are your going to get a link on a backlink network, doubtful it will have much (If any) traffic. You might get a PR link at first but it will most likely roll off the Index page into oblivion (long term), unless you keep paying to bump your link back to an existing PR page.

              If your serious about buying links that generate niche traffic, this isn't the place to be (SEO sub-forum). Go to the authority sites in your niche, then work your way down the list until you get the links you want.

              Things like article directories are crap.
              Hi Yukon,

              I wasn't shopping for links. I was just asking about some opinions on the concept. It would be my plan to ask the authority sites in my niche, not just become part of a crappy backlink network, if that were the case I would just nuke my site :p
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              • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
                Originally Posted by hockeyplayer85 View Post

                Hi Yukon,

                I wasn't shopping for links. I was just asking about some opinions on the concept. It would be my plan to ask the authority sites in my niche, not just become part of a crappy backlink network, if that were the case I would just nuke my site :p
                Nothing wrong with the concept at all and its not necessarily true that the page will not have PR because its new. It all depends on the navigation on the site. PR is updated constantly. PR toolbar means little. If the page were linked near the top of the home page for example it could easily have a PR1 or even PR2 from a PR3 home page and it would have that juice the next time the site was crawled
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  • Profile picture of the author Lukas
    it is weird how article directories are crap. the big ones too. They have high PR, high d/a yet the niche blogs are below the big article dirs in metrics. So, there must be another Google metric.
    A friendly word of advice, look at how the best blog posts look. They don't have 1 or 2 links to a commercial site. They have 3 or 4 (sometimes more than that) going to different sources including a commercial site. Now that is natural looking and helpful instead of 1 link to your business. You gotta keep G honest and on their heels or they catch up & you get penalized.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by Lukas View Post

      it is weird how article directories are crap. the big ones too. They have high PR, high d/a yet the niche blogs are below the big article dirs in metrics. So, there must be another Google metric.
      OBL So many pages with so many links dilutes everything.
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  • Profile picture of the author GourmetItalian
    Looking for a free good blog on where you can leave your links through guest posting are quite difficult but there are few of them still accepting free guest post.
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  • Profile picture of the author intergen
    Use Payperpost.com (IZEA) - you can tell them what you want, how many links, embed a video etc. They write the post - you accept the post. You can also pick the PR of the sites you want your post on. And its a lot less than you state you want to pay.
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  • Profile picture of the author alexnob
    Originally Posted by hockeyplayer85 View Post

    Hi all;

    Getting accepted to write a guest post on a high-pr site can be both tedious, and (depending on the quality of your own site) a pain in the butt to get approval for anything higher than a Pr 2-3.

    My question is, do you think that webmasters would be open to the concept of getting paid to have someone write a guest post on their site? The webmaster gets $$$ for getting new content added and the poster gets a valuable backlink to their own site. Sounds like a win/win...

    Personally, I would pay about $20 for a PR1 or 2 and upwards of $100 for a PR5+

    Any thoughts to this? Or, even better, is there a service that currently offers this kind of match-making?

    Thanks for the comments

    P.S. If you have a HighPR blog or site and you wouldn't mind getting some money for letting me write a guest post or two, do let me know!

    P.P.S. Sorry if this is already a very well known strategy, just looking for some insights.

    Chad
    Well, what are niches and minimum page rank you're looking for? Please PM me, thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author abhigoogle
    Oh man, PR of a homepage doesn't matter. What matters the most is the PR of your guest article on that blog. And building that PR is in your own hands - the more you link to it from other relevant and good sources, the better will be the PR. Break the myth!
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  • Profile picture of the author Pawprints34
    This is an interesting thread because I've been trying to get my head around why everyone is crazy about guest blogging.

    I have thought to myself the same as Yukon... aren't I getting a link on a PR0 brand new page? Ok if it is big authority then yes it will pass some PR but my article won't probably be close to the homepage. I'm sure these big sites have some sort of silo structure so it will be placed within a relevant category and be 2-3 pages from the homepage.

    And it would be very difficult to get the webmasters of authority sites that would be good enough for this purpose to agree to accept my guest post linking to my relatively new site when they know I would not be an authority in the niche. Maybe if I paid them but surely it wouldn't be worth the cost for a PR0 link?

    Maybe the authority is worth it? But in the end I am still thinking.... there are easier ways to get more link juice than this will pass..... I'm thinking spend my money on a well researched expired domain with PR and domain authority and page authority above 30.

    That way I'm in control and the webmaster won't delete my guest post after 90 days or something.

    Am I on the right track here?
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