I get 3-5 guest post requests per day and while they all sound very promising, I delete them without spending too much time and I will explain below why.<\/p>\n
Guest posting is a good way to promote your work on other websites and gain recognition, traffic and exposure. Unfortunately like other good things on the web, it is over abused by spammers and \u2018SEO consultants\u2019 and it is used solely for link building purposes.<\/p>\n
I have a clear view about guest posting and I had to learn the hard way that guest posting is not only for links<\/a><\/b> but there are many more benefits from having your work published on other trusted websites.<\/p>\n To save you time and effort and to answer to a comment from Prat in this post<\/a>, I will explain below the basic concepts behind guest posting (advantages, disadvantages, criteria for guest blogging on your blog and what to do before publishing a guest post) and also provide an answer as to whether you should accept guest posts on your blog or not.<\/p>\n By a \u2018good guest post\u2019 we mean content that you can safely publish on your blog (if you choose to do so). Such a post should satisfy the criteria below:<\/p>\n Are there any advantages for you as a publisher from hosting a guest post on your blog? Provided that the post meets ALL the above guidelines, by accepting guest posts you can benefit from the following advantages:<\/p>\n On the other hand, by accepting guest posts on your blog it\u2019s a great way to:<\/p>\n In addition to the above characteristics of a \u2018good guest post\u2019 and to make sure that you will benefit from the advantages and not suffer from the disadvantages, you need to set very strict criteria before accepting any guest post. For example, these are the criteria I am using:<\/p>\n You may be thinking that with all the above criteria, no one will be willing to contribute a post. Maybe this true but you don\u2019t want to take any risks at all so better be strict and safe than lenient and risky.<\/p>\n Assuming the all the above conditions are met and you decided to accept a guest post, you need to do the following before publishing it:<\/p>\n Now that you know all the pros and cons and the pre-requisites of a quality guest post, you can safely make your own decision without taking any un-necessary risks.<\/p>\n I personally do not even read guest post requests that are automated or based on some template because I know from advance that their purpose is to get a link back from my website and not offer any real value of my users.<\/p>\n The best way to approach someone and ask for publishing your post is not by sending a pre-defined email but by building connections on social media and pitching your idea when the time is right. I know it is hard and time consuming to do but the benefits in terms of traffic and recognition are far more important than a link in the author bio.<\/p>\n Finally, if you choose to accept guest posts on your blog, do not do it all the time. Make sure that guest posts are used to enrich your publishing strategy and not to overtake it. In other words you still need to publish your own content and in-between the publishing dates you can throw a guest article as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I get 3-5 guest post requests per day and while they all sound very promising, I delete them without spending too much time and I will explain below why. Guest posting is a good way to promote your work on other websites and gain recognition, traffic and exposure. Unfortunately like other good things on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,116,7,115,9,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29233,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/29233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the characteristics of a good guest post?<\/h2>\n
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Advantages of accepting guest posts on your blog<\/h2>\n
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Disadvantages of accepting guest posts on your blog<\/h2>\n
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Set strict criteria for quality guest posting<\/h2>\n
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What to do before publishing a guest post?<\/h2>\n
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Should you accept guest posts on your blog?<\/h2>\n