If you have a business or blog, you should be looking into guest posting on blogs. Guest posting is when you write an article on a blog which is not your own. Guest posting is not when you write a post about your company/blog and pay for it to be featured on a blog.
There is some debate amongst the blogging community on whether or not a guest poster should be paid for their post. In my opinion, guest posters should be compensated for their post but the compensation does not need to be monetary.
Here at TOTS we accept guest posts. We do not pay for the post, but in exchange we will include a short bio at the end of the post which includes a link back to their blog/website.
How is this fair compensation if you just said that people get PAID to guest post?
The answer is three-fold.
Relationships. Guest posting starts to build relationships with other people and brands. Not to toot my own horn here, but I think TOTS is a great brand to start building a relationship with. Not only do Cat and I work extremely hard on TOTS, but we are also small business owners and have an extensive group that we network with. On the flip side I have guest posted for sites who I wanted to build relationships with and guest posting is a perfect way to get your foot in the door. The brands not only get to know a bit about you, but they can also see your work ethic.
Exposure/Traffic. Guest posting is a super cheap (cannot get cheaper than free) way to expose your brand to a relevant audience. To gain the most from any exposure you get make sure to post on relevant blog, not just ones that have tonnes of followers. For example, my business From The Stash sells used cloth diapers. It would not make sense for me to guest post on TOTS, as most of our readers are here to learn about business. However I would guest post on Housewife Mama or Zephyr Hill as Stephanie and Anne post about cloth diapers on a regular basis. Make sense? If your business links are in your bio you might even get some click-through traffic.
Link Juice. We have talked about link juice and page rank before. Don’t know what I am talking about? Check out our post on What is PageRank. If you make sure your link(s) are DoFollow and are from a reputable site you will get some good link juice from it.
Have you guest posted before?
P.S. If you are thinking about guest posting on TOTS or TOTS: Family, feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected].
I’m about to start a blog of my own, and always wondered how this worked. I keep reading that it’s important to be a guest blogger as well as have them. Thanks for the info!!
Yes doing both is best 🙂
Thank you for the information. I was not sure about the in and outs of guest posts.
Guest posting is awesome. We should swap. 🙂
I need to do more guest blogs.
I absolutely know this is important but I don’t do it very much because I can barely ger everything done for my own blog!
If only there were 30 hours in a day. I find it hard most of the time too.
I’ve guest posted once and it turned out to be a nightmare. I may try again in the future.
Oh no! If you want to try out guest posting again you could write a post for us on your bad experience 😉
Thanks for the reminder that I need to do more guest posting. 🙂
I used to write quite a few guest posts, but have really slacked off. I’ve been thinking about guest posting again to expand my audience. Great tips!
Yes, I guest post and I accept guest posts. I think its nice for my readers to have a break from me on occasion 🙂
It’s not just you :). I think having a break also refreshes me.
I would love to guest post more but need to find the right connections. Thanks for the tips
Make the connections yourself (well that is what I did). I cold emailed people and let then know I loved their blog and what I could offer them
I recently started guest blogging for a fairly big news site that is in Google news. My pageviews are now over 30,000 monthly. Guest posting works!
Whelan insists Martinez will stay
Agen Bola indo11.com reported, Wigan chairman David Whelan feels manager Roberto Martinez will remain with the club after guiding them to the first major trophy.
Martinez’s men sealed victory in the FA Cup final with a dramatic 1-0 win over Manchester City at Wembley on Saturday, Ben Watson heading an injury-time winner for the relegation-threatened side.
The Spaniard has earned great plaudits for keeping Wigan in the Premier League since joining the club in 2009 and has been linked with a move away as a result of his achievements with the DW Stadium outfit.
However, the often outspoken Whelan has stressed his view that the former Swansea boss will continue his work with Wigan, but that survival remains the immediate priority with Martinez’s side currently three points adrift of safety.
He told the BBC: “The big fight is to stay up, the second thing is Roberto will make his own mind up, I do not make anything for him. as reported by Indo Eleven.
Source : http://www.indo11.com
Sevilla close in on Alvaro Morata
Agen Bola indo11.com reported, Sevilla are on the verge of signing Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata.
Los Rojiblancos are set to stay without a number of high-profile players in the summer and they are forced to search for cheap replacements.
According to El Correo de Andalucia, the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan outfit are closing in on the first signing for the 2013/2014 season.
A source close to the club has revealed that the transfer taking Real Madrid hotshot Alvaro Morata to Sevilla is 80% completed, although it remains to be seen whether the talented forward will arrive on loan or outright transfer.
Morata, 20, is hoping to leave Santiago Bernabeu in search of first team football, having started just four La Liga fixtures this season. as reported by Indo Eleven.
With more star players expected to arrive at Real Madrid in the summer, Morata is well aware he needs to leave the club if he is to get more playing time.
Source : http://www.indo11.com
I haven’t guest posted in a long time but I need to.
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