I recently made myself a goal whereby I’m going to do at least one guest post per week, so I thought I should write an article about it to let you guys know what on earth I’m on about.
Guest posting is nothing new, but is (and has always been) one of the most effective ways of advertising your site, increasing your readership, and also building a community. This article will give you the basics that you need to start guest posting, and also tell you how to guest post effectively.
What is a guest post?
I know there’ll be a few readers who are unsure of what a guest post is, so let me explain. A guest post is where you go on someone else’s blog and write a post for their site. In return, you usually get an author bio where you can put a bit about yourself and also some links.
Why should I guest post?
If this is the first time you’ve really heard about guest posting, you’ll probably be wondering why on earth you’d want to waste your time writing articles for other people’s sites, well, to you people, let me explain. If your post is good, you’re bound to attract some more readers from that blog, thus gaining you some quality readers who will probably check back and comment on your blog. Because of this, it’s a great way of advertising your site on other people’s sites in your niche to get yourself (and your blog) go viral within your niche.
Where should I guest post?
I personally guest post on two different types of sites:
- Popular sites in my niche. This will hopefully build me a good amount of new readers for my blog and get myself known.
- My friends’ sites. I sometimes do guest posts on smaller blogs, too. This is purely to be nice and hopefully help out my friends’ blogs and keep relations good. You’ll often find that in this case, they’ll quite happily guest post back.
You may go to some popular blogs where you want to comment and you won’t see a page related to guest posting. In this case, I would suggest that you email the site owner and ask them NICELY if you can do a guest post. Tell the owner why they should let you do a guest post… persuade them!
If you follow me around the blogosphere, you might have seen some of my guest posts on other people’s blogs, and here are a few of them:
- ‘Solving Negative Thoughts’ on WebJourney.me
- ‘3 Things Every Blog Should Have’ on Chidimar.com
- ‘Ideas for ideas’ on ThinkForMoney.com
If you have a blog and would like me to do a guest post, please just contact me and we can talk further about it (after all, I do want to do a guest post a week). If you’re interested in writing a guest post here on Teenius, please read the designated page about it.
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Cool Post.. looks like you stolen my idea..
Though, really nice !
And thanks for linking to Chidimar Guest Post.
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No problem (regarding the link)
Haha, sorry, didn’t know it was something you were planning on writing about.
Hey, thanks for the link love. Great guest post BTW. I guess, i’m one of the smaller blogs, however, my content is good and my traffic is improving greatly. This is basically my first month and I already have 20,000 page views. Now I just need to turn them into subscribers and build a readership.
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20,000 page views is a pretty impressive statistic, especially if it’s the first month, but, yeah, like you say, a lot of it’s down to whether they’re quality visitors
Simon,
Nice post and you are more than welcome to guest post on mine
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Thanks
I’ll be sending you an email shortly 
Guest post probably is one of the most important thing that a blogger must do. I did my first guest post yesterday. Anyway good post Simon.
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Awesome stuff. Congrats on your first guest post
Have you seen any improvement in the amount of traffic/the amount of quality readers yet?
Ya getting a descent amount of quality traffic. Getting good results out of it.
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Cool. I suppose that just goes to show the importance of guest posting
Hey, would love to see your Guest Post.
Where did you do that ?
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Hope he doesn’t mind me speaking for him, but it was at greatestreviews.net
Well I have also been doing some guest posts on some really popular blogs this month. I aim to get readers as well and target different type of audience.
My suggestion is not to guest post on super popular blogs like chow or problogger. Aside from the fact that its hard to get a content up to their site, your blog wouldn’t also get much traction because they post 2-3 per day…
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Very good point, but then if you think about it, there will still be a lot of people that check those popular blogs every day and read every post that’s been made since they last logged on. I suppose it just varies depending on the reader.
I guest posted in a pretty popular blog once before. I must say that it was a sweet deal. Sweet because I got some traffic and loyal visitors.
Cheers,
Meg
Awesome, nice one
Where did you do the guest post?
Awesome advice. I did a guest post once but if I’m honest it didn’t really work. I noticed a small impact in traffic, probably around 50 UVs, then it died down after a few days.
But then it was on my friend’s blog, so our friendship is still going strong
Yeah. On the smaller blogs I’ve guest posted on, I haven’t really noticed a great change (I only got 2 UVs from one of the guest posts I did), but a lot of it is to do with the community side of things
Awesome post. When i get my new blog up, I’ll definately be guest posting. Great advice
This blog has been a long time coming, can’t wait to finally see it, got any plans for the domain as of yet?
Guest Posting is so much fun. So far I have contributed to two blogs only, and get paid for them. I know it is Paid Writing but still a charm of writing at some one’s blog is different.
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Yeah, I used to get that when I did freelance writing, especially if you know WHERE your post will be shown. Did you get credit for the articles (ie, did you get a linkback?)
Yes I contribute to one them regularly but fortunately managed to get the link back only from one blog.
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Ah OK. Well, that’s still not too bad if you’re getting paid
I think guest posts are a great way to network and promote your own blog.
I like your writing style, please keep posting!
yeah I agree Teenius got a nice writing style to follow. Keep up the good work dude.
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Thanks for the compliments, guys
Hi, good post. I have been pondering this issue,so thanks for sharing. I’ll definitely be subscribing to your posts.
Thanks for the compliment! These sort of comments really make it all worthwhile
Interesting points. Well I have already read a few of your posts in those blogs.
Good work.
Thanks, Kiran. It’s nice to have a compliment every now and again
Thanks for the advice. Saw your guest post at blogriffic and was looking for more info on the guest posting aspect.
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Hey David. First off, thanks for reading my guest post on Blogriffic – it seemed to go pretty well judging by the reponse I got in the comments.
Also, hope you found the info you wanted, and that I can see you around here more often
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