Guest Post Galore
Posted by Samar | Posted in Sunday Link Overdose | Posted on 12-04-2009
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Guest posting is a great way to gain exposure for yourself and your blog. It’s also stamp of approval from the blogger on who’s blog you’re posting. The readers of that blog trust you by proxy. You don’t have to work hard on proving your mettle.
If you’re already successful, guest posting is a great way to reach out to new audiences and establish your expertise.
This week, we’re going round up guests post on popular blogs.
- Write to Done is Leo Babauta’s (of Zen Habits fame) writing based blog. Marco Saric of How To Make My Blog wrote a guest post ‘How to Make Your Site go Viral on Twitter‘. That’s a pretty huge pat on the back. Leo has a huge following and if not many, Marco most definitely managed to gain some loyal readers through this post. Not to mention, he added a feather in his blogging cap.
- Chris Brogan’s blog has over 21 thousand subscribers. Theses are just the RSS subscribers. On an estimate, add a few thousand more email and newsletter subscribers and that’s a staggering number to reach out to through a guest post. Jason Alba’s guest post “Handling Negative Comments on Your Blog Post“. The post received 52 comments and 6 track-backs. That is some serious exposure!
- A quick look at Shanon Paul’s Very Official Blog revealed that on an average, her posts receive 7-8 17 comments. That’s an decent awesome level of participation if you ask me. But it’s far from the big leagues. Her guest post “Six Very Official Ways to Improve Your Writing” for Pro Blogger was great exposure.
Shannon’s been busy establishing a solid reputation for herself instead of concentrating on building a blog following. She’s been successful in it to a great extent as she got a mention by Chris Brogan in 8 Marketing Bloggers to Watch in 2009.
- Daily Blog Tips is one of Daniel Scocco’s babies. Daniel was one of the unfortunate bloggers who’s website got hacked. The incident raised a lot of security questions among bloggers. Mr I from Blogging With Success decided to expand on Daniel’s post about website security by listing 5 Plugins to keep WordPress Safe.
- Jonathan Muller’s guest post “How To Become a Better Blogger” for Yan Susanto’s Thou Shall Blog was very well received. Even though Jonathan’s blog hasn’t been updated since early February, it still has a lot of useful information for you to go through.
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Can I write on yours? You can write on mine, then we’ll both be exposed to new readers. I’m writing on someone else’s next week. His name is Dark Roasted Blend. I hope he’s not too weird.
Although I havent had the opportunity to guest post as yet (I will be doing so at the end of the month hopefully), I did host 15 guest bloggers in January ‘09. The result of which was amazing, and my readership has trippled as a result of that 1 week of craziness.
I’m all for it, and it does not happen enough!
Cookie Monster’s last blog post..Change of plans…..
[...] of which… I read this excellent post which was written by Samar on guest posting, and it reminded me of the last week of January, when this blog went guest post crazy! If you [...]
Writing a guest post for ProBlogger was definitely a great opportunity for me to engage with a slightly different audience, however I must point out that the average level of engagement on my blog is quite a bit higher than you indicated in your post.
While I may not be considered “big league” material I’m proud of the fact that there is a considerable amount of engagement there especially considering it’s been less than a year since it launched. A bit of quick math indicates that the average number of comments on a post is actually closer to 17. Maybe this is splitting hairs, but engagement is very important to me — more important than page rank or traffic or links.
Shannon Paul’s last blog post..Overcoming Obstacles to Social Media Integration
Ian: I’ll get back to you in a few days. I hope your guest poster turns out awesome!
Cookie: That’s great! I followed the guest posting on your blog and thought it was a great idea. Not only did you gain readers, your guest posters must have too from all the new people visiting.
Shannon: My apologies. It grates when someone misreports all your hard work. The changes have been made.