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37 Mind Blowing Secrets About Guest Blog Posts. As someone who is involved in blogging and all things related to it, you probably come across a lot of information from various sources.

37 Mind Blowing Secrets About Guest Blog Posts

This would normally be a good thing, but the problem is that not all the information that comes your way is accurate or up-to-date. As with virtually everything related to the Web, there are a lot of misconceptions out there surrounding blogs and blogging. There are also plenty of lesser-known bits of information that can affect the performance of your blog and your day-to-day activities as a blogger. I therefore thought it was a good idea to share some of these trade secrets in the hope of clearing up some confusion you may have.

Guest-Blogging-eBook. The Ultimate Resource Guide to Blogger Outreach and Guest Blogging. The Guest Blogging Myth You Likely Believe. There’s this popular misconception that IF you’re Guest Posting for an A-List blog, THEN your blog will blow up.

The Guest Blogging Myth You Likely Believe

Readers will be like, “Hey you posted on that site I love. HERE, TAKE MY MONEY!” Before your guest blog goes live, you’ve preemptively increased your hosting, lest all these new salivating visitors crash your website because they’ve been starved and they’re hungry to devour your awesomeness . The inner circle of blogging elite are all firing emails off through their secret network saying “You’ve Got To See This?!” , while simultaneously arguing, and making power plays vying for who’s going to book you to write next. Smaller blogs in your field simmer with Awe and Envy because you achieved what they never could. Those who can swallow their pride ask you, the recently ascended, your secrets and if you would mentor them (because you’re not so far removed from their world that you have forgotten how to talk to mere mortals) Which of course, never happens.

In fact, none of it happens. Common Blogging Mistakes: Editorial Guidelines for Bloggers. Find Guest Post Opportunities With One Powerful Query. There are a lot of guides for discovering guest post opportunities.

Find Guest Post Opportunities With One Powerful Query

However, these guides usually require to perform a long list of search queries in order to find all the relevant opportunities. And while every search yields results ordered by rank and relevancy but you can't compare two results from different search queries. In order to unify all these queries into one query we should advance from simple queries to complex Boolean queries.

However, many people may find Boolean search very formalistic and even counter-intuitive. In this post I'm going to focus on the practical aspects of Boolean search, and hopefully help the readers to phrase highly complex queries without the need to deal with formal definitions. Practical Boolean Search While I'm not going to get into the formal definition of Boolean operators, I would like to clarify one formal aspect of Boolean search first. For example, suppose we manage a social media campaign on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Find The Patterns. How to Evaluate Guest Post Opportunities. With all the recent turbulence in the SERPs, many agencies and businesses are recognising the need to move budgets from the lower-end link building tactics to techniques like guest posting.

How to Evaluate Guest Post Opportunities

Guest posting is very easy to get wrong though, as a technique it may well be considered high-quality but just like any other link building tactic, it's the execution which determines whether the links earned are high-quality (the devil is in the detail!). My main concern with all the hub-bub going on around guest blogging is that in say 18 months time when Google launches say, the Badger update, folks will have been buzzing along thinking they're building links that are Google-proof and then SMACK! They get hit by the update which filters out much of the low-quality guest posting that by then will probably be widespread. - Your field guide for evaluating guest post opportunities - Introduction The relevance and quality of the site.

Ann Smarty: How to be a Guest Blogging Rockstar. Thinking about a guest blogging strategy?

Ann Smarty: How to be a Guest Blogging Rockstar

Get the lowdown from Ann Smarty, founder of MyBlogGuest and former Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Journal. I’ve been on the Internet marketing and blogging for about seven years; I’m happy to hear people know me as the owner of MyBlogGuest. I guess that’s already an accomplishment. I used to be much better known as the Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Journal (one of the top resources for search and social news). I’d been contributing and editing for like three years before I resigned to be a self-funded entrepreneur.

These two years have been crazy! Oh, I can talk a lot about that. Just a few examples… Guest blogging is a long-term task. Many people quit before they even realize the power: guest blogging is where you need to work hard for a long time without being able to see the results. But at the end of the day, it’s well worth it! Sure! Start with those blogs you are reading daily or weekly. In short, I suggest asking first. I blog a lot. 3 Smart Google Search Tips to Hunt for Guest Post Opportunities. By Guest Author This is a guest post by Ann Smarty. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Guest posting is one of the most effective ways to promote your blog, meet new audience and build valuable contacts.

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