A guest post is an article written by a certain author professionally and is intended to be published at a blogger's site. Here the guest poster will contact the blog owner to discuss his or her intentions. A guest poster is a professional writer not connected to the blog owner. He writes high-quality articles of any topic for a certain blog site.
Photo Credits Guest Infographic by Brandon Rhodes demonstrating the benefits to enjoy by the author from his guest blog posting.
And from guest blog posting, the writer who offers his knowledge and know-how will enjoy the expansion of his reach to the blogger's audience and the blog owner will also enjoy some great high-quality articles completely for free with free links going to the site of the guest poster.
Below is an offer I received on June 12, 2014 from a certain guest poster. I withheld her name, I quote:
Hi,
My name is Ms. X and I had gone through your blog and found it very informative. I would like to share my experience and knowledge with your audience by publishing Guest Post on your blog. You can suggest me any topic on which you want me to write article on for publishing it as a Guest Post on your website.
I can also suggest you great topics for your blog.
Looking forward to your reply.
Best Regards
Ms. X
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On the same day, I replied her letter with simple instructions, I quote:
Hi Ms. X,
I accept your offer. If you can write articles about people/celebrities between 400 and 500 words length with photos I would appreciate them. First write three articles for the said subjects and then send them off to ppruel@yahoo.com as attachments. In case your articles were already published on your blog site, website or on other publications - change the "Title" and rewrite the "Introduction".
Your articles should bear the following: your author's name, your blog site or website name with a valid URL link, if published on other publication include the link and your articles should have at least 3 to 5 tags (write them on the bottom of each article).
Your submitted articles will be published at Wikinut Awesome Publishing Site For Articles
And be sure that you are the original author for those articles. Do not forget to include the link going to your own site (it will help increase your site views and traffic). Once the articles are published - they will travel automatically across the Internet through the social networks (Facebook and Twitter), G+, Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious, Pinterest and other bookmarking sites I am connected with.
This time I do not accept explicit materials or matured contents. I will also appreciate if you will link my blog to your site.
That's all for now. Thank you for the interest. I will wait those submissions from you.
Best regards,
Paul Pruel
(PS: If everything works well - I will display some of your best articles to my own domain website at Wikinut Awesome Blog.)
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The next day June 13, 2014, her reply of two words arrived, I quote: "OK. Thanks."
From June 14 until now - there was no additional communications from her that my yahoo mail box has recorded. And yet, still, until now I am still waiting for her submissions.
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Nowadays, guest blog posting is trending its popularity and is considered as an effective marketing and advertising approach applied by professional online writers and bloggers. While it is helping to promote a writer's career and profession, it is also helping to promote a blog site to boost its traffic and views as well as helping the site to increase its page rank on search engines. And there are more advantages to mention from this method.
However, there are also disadvantages from guest blog posting - one is, it pushes the blog owner to become lazy. He would stop from thinking what to update for his own blog site as he is depending from those guest blog postings from authors who happened to use his blog to promote their stuff and expertise. The blog owner would no longer be inspired to do his research on good topics thinking that there are people outside who are willing to feed high-quality articles for his blog site. And the worst of all worst is when the blog owner becomes idle - his tendency to learn for new discoveries to enhancing his blogging expertise will decrease. And eventually he would no longer be interested to write his own high-quality articles for his own blog site.
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