Blogging Collaborations and Best Practices For years now I have been encouraging businesses and bloggers to stop competing and start collaborating. I even announced that Collaborating is THE Word for 2011 and I still believe that. Every blogger will benefit from adding a geographic component to their existing blog as I explain in Why Your Geographic Location IS a Niche and in Bloggers: Position Yourself Where the Money Is. Use these tips from professional copywriter Donna Anderson (@SheWritesALot) on writing compelling local content. I am personally mentoring groups of bloggers to develop best practices. Bloggers Wanted to Lead Blog Collaborations Click Image for the Most Advanced Example of Influential Bloggers Offering Advertising and Blog Outreach to Business Rohan @365thingstododc wrote about my small business advice offerings and ran with my blogger collaboration ideas. Homeschooling Deals blogger Kelli @momof3boys3702 is leading a formal blog mentoring collaboration and wrote YES! The following two tabs change content below.
Guest Posting Made MUCH Easier with PostJoint In a new twist to how guest blogging sites usually work – instead of businesses seeking bloggers to write for them – they submit quality content they would like to have published to PostJoint and bloggers bid for the right to publish that content. NEW: Listen to this podcast where I explain how PostJoint works for Andy Nathan’s eMarketing Experience. PostJoint calls the businesses posting the content advertisers. Moderators manually review all guest posts to ensure quality and uniqueness. Guest posts must be well written, non-promotional, and can not be published anywhere else. They can be typed directly into PostJoint or copied and pasted from WordPress or other blogs or applications. All blogs are pre-screened for quality and must meet PostJoint’s Blog Acceptance Policies. If any questions come up, you can use the built-in messaging system to clarify. These specifics will answer many frequently asked questions about PostJoint:
The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Guest Blogging With “content marketing” being the indisputable SEO buzzword of 2012, we can expect 2013 to see an onslaught of marketers trying to build links with guest posts. The growth in this market will cause some sites to lower their guest posting standards, others to raise them, and still more to stop accepting them altogether. Google will target low quality guest posts with increasing zeal, and it will get harder to see results if the effort and strategy aren't there. 1. Let's kick this off by talking about where to seek out guest post opportunities. 20 Things You Should Do and Pay Attention to Look for platforms where it will make sense to readers for you to post. 20 Things You Should Avoid Your choices for guest posting opportunities are ridiculously numerous, and you will waste resources if you pursue guest posts from sub-par blogs. Blogs that accept all content sent their way with the obvious goal of publishing as much content as quickly as possible. Where to Find Places to Guest Post 2.
10 Useful Tips for Guest Blogging as a Link Building Strategy Sometimes guest blogging can feel like you are pushing a boulder up the steep side of a mountain. Other times, it feels like the world is finally on your side. Replies to your pitches are rolling in and you wonder if something is secretly terribly wrong because most of the time, nothing is ever easy. There has been a lot of buzz lately about the long-term effectiveness of a guest blogging strategy for links (see this post from SEOMoz). Some experts see this tactic as long and over-drawn, with diminishing returns at best. 1. Before choosing the blogs you are going to pitch to for guest blogging, it is very important to do some basic research. You can find relevant sites though a detailed Google search. First, make sure you have the SEOQuake add-on for either Firefox or Chrome. Second, I would check Compete.com and look into the site’s traffic levels. Lastly, look into their social media sites. 2. On average, I would try to read at least 3 blog posts before drafting a pitch letter. 3. 4.