Guest blogging for other blogs of a favorite niche is a kind of passion and another way of making money by just doing the same exact blogging tasks you are already used to follow on your own blog!
But many normal people don’t prefer to guest blog but just wish to have their own blog never-mind the difficulty in designing and developing a blog.
Here is why people do so:
Being afraid that the administrator may ban you.
Just say the admin that you are a first-timer and sure they may or may not approve your post, but they’ll help you improve and they’ll never ban you.
Wondering whether it will earn you some money or not
Some websites allow adding AdSense code and have a revenue sharing program while some have competitions for guest bloggers just as FamousBloggers have. There are, of course, blogs which does not give you any kind of income but will definitely earn you a lot of fame. And you know, fame is priceless.
Being jealous
This may not be accepted by any guest blogger openly, but it is very much true. Being jealous of a blog’s owner and not writing posts in it to prevent him earn name and fame is also a major thing in guest blogging. What if he earns more than you? After all he is your mate, right?
Will the owner of the blog help me in anyway?
Of course he will. You write a post, tweet it and share it in Facebook, hence driving a pretty much of traffic to his blog. He too, will promote your blog and he will guest post in your blog (If it is of the same niche)
Giving credits to the wrong person
Saved the best for the last. Suppose that I have written this article, and you credit Hesham saying:
Nice post, Hesham.
What should I feel like? This is the most frustrating thing that could happen to any guest blogger. The only solution to this problem is the person who has been credited by mistake should say to the commentator whom to credit. That may prove to be an extra motivation to the guest author.
Do you write guest posts? If yes, what are the difficulties you face in guest blogging?
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Article by Murugappan
Music freak, Facebook addict, Cricket crazy, Tenth-Grader, Part time blogger. In short, A typical teenager who falls in love with everything except studies ;)
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Hi Murugappan,
All valid points, and I’m glad that you were able to squash these myths!
Guest blogging is nothing but filled with awesomness! Not to mention you get to meet so many new and awesome people.
Fantastic post!
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Well its just being stupid to turn your back to guest blogging. It is one of the growing trends among bloggers.
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September 14, 2010 at 3:25 am
Thanks Hesham for this great post!
Kidding.
There can be another problem to resisting one from guest posting. When I don’t have much time to maintain my posting schedule, I won’t be able to request for guest posting. He/she is writing for own blog. But it is not hard to realize the fact that the guest post can be a great aid in promoting his/her own blog. This can save time to write even more quality content.
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I think guest blogging is important to get link and earn some readers. But I understand why some bloggers do not prefer guest blogging, maybe because of pride or something…
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I think for me it’s more laziness. Coming up with original content that you didn’t post before, racking your brain where it may have been posted elsewhere.
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I think guest blogging is a very beneficial thing for any blogger. I think for anyone who have just started guest blogging, they will be the fear of things that you’ve mentioned. But with trial and error and good effort put into your post, I really believe you won’t be doing something so wrong that they will ban you from guest posting. The most they can tell you is to rewrite your articles completely. Still I think you have made good points about the fear of guest blogging.
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Thanks for sharing this. I agree that guest blogging is one of the most effective ways to gain audiences almost instantly. if you write a very valuable post, people might visit your site to know more about you, or the best scenario here, they might also subscribe to your newsletter.
I once wrote a guest post to a high-ranking blog, and it generated me 23 new subscribers in just a matter of hours after it went live.
kind regards,
Gary
A very interesting post indeed. Some will agree with the points you mentioned and others won’t. I guess it depends on the individual themself. I have started to accept guest posts and also have a revenue sharing program and the response has been great.
I do think that I should also find another way to reward my guest bloggers, thanks for the idea
Nice post Hesham…lol
Murugappan,
Personally the main reason I do not do much guest blogging is because I rather have that content on my site. If your website is already ranking well and receives a fair amount of traffic, there is not as much incentive to go out and write guest posts. But in the first stages of your blog, these guest posts will help you a lot. And it is probably the best back-linking strategy out there – although don’t go out and write a bunch of guest posts just for backlinks (this should be a consequence, not the incentive). Guest blogging should be done with the idea of positioning yourself as an expert in your field, gaining more “followers” and driving quality traffic to your site.
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The problem you mentioned does happen often. People will from time to time write “Nice post Hesham” in response to a blog post. But I think it completely depends on the blog.
On a blog such as FB it will only happen a few times since this blog is a multi-author blog. If I would post a guest post on my blog the chances of someone replying “Nice post Julius” would be much higher simply because usually on my blog there only appear my articles.
Nice post Murugappan
(I simply had to write it)
Guest posts are one of the best ways to get more traffic for your site. Not only does it improve your SEO ranking, but you can get many more clicks to your site from people reading your guest post. It’s important to remember to have a killer post ready for your site when your guest post goes live to take advantage of the extra traffic.
but of course the biggest problem with guest posts is finding the time to write them
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Nice post Murugappan!
Proves I’m an avid and careful reader I guess lol. But on a serious note, many people dont realise that just by being associated with a well known and respected industry blog with a large following, you yourself are being pushed up there into the limelight as an industry expert. I couldn’t tell you how many times I have read a guest post and ended up subscribing to the authors own blog straight afterwards, particularly if the post was good quality!
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July 19, 2010 at 7:29 am
I will agree with Illz and say that I expected rejection to be on there.
I’ve been writing for various web sites since 2004 (mainly professional wrestling) and I still feel that pain when an article is initially rejected.
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July 19, 2010 at 4:54 am
All you said here are make sense bro. Just want to remind you, guest blogging is one way to get more connection with other blogger and find a new place to hang out and meet new audience. This is happened if you have a blog already. You will get more readers and traffic with Guest Blogging.
Thanks for your awesome opinion.
Yes we must be careful with blog that we want to guest blogging
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I personally love guest blogging. I think that people who have bad experiences do so because they are participating for the wrong reason. It should be less about getting a link and more about the potential benefit of ‘networking’ in this way. Consider any links acquired a bonus and focus first and foremost on creating content that the target blog’s audience is likely to enjoy.
Obviously, yo always risk the article being rejected. But ask for feedback if this happens. Ask why and ask for some constructive crticism. This will help you to improve your writing!
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July 19, 2010 at 1:11 am
Interesting points you have here. I have been contemplating guest blogging for some time. I love reading the articles posted here, but I am totally out of my niche. I can ‘adapt’ a post for guest blogging, but for the very reasons you have in your article, I feel that my post would not get accepted. I guess I will continue to learn how to guest post on other blogs and stay true to my work or my style of writing for my own blog.
Great read. Thank you.
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Nice post, Hesham.
Just kidding! I don’t think I ever guest blogged on anyone else’s blog. I have so many sites and blogs of my own – just don’t have the time to contribute on another blog.
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Hi Murugappan,
After reading this post, I got the feeling that I need to wake up. I haven’t yet done a single guest post. So naturally, I fear that will my writing style suit that guest blog? How will the readers accept the post?If anyone clicks through the link to my own blog, what impression will he/she get about my own blog?(it’s a very new blog atm). All these questions are holding me back from doing my first guest post.
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Look, if someone credited the wrong person, obviously this person never even read the post, he or she is just here for spam comment.
Secondly, earning money from guest post, well.. the only way and also the fastest way I knew thus far, is to allow guest poster (if he had his own product of course) to put it on the right side of the post for a certain amount of time till the next post is up.
What I mean is he doesn’t had to write a review of the producet, just putting the banner such as 300 x 250 will do.
And if the guest poster had a affiliate program, both the guest poster and administrator will earn at the same time if someone buy it.
Well, I haven’t seen any blogger did that, but obviously putting a banner is better then putting adsense I think and you can kill 3 birds with 1 stone….
That is 1) you get fame which is priceless
2) you get to promote and sell your own product
3) you and the admin can both rack in cash together.
How’s that for an ideal….?
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This is a wonderful and timely article for me. I never tried guest postings anywhere before. But since reading and frequenting FB, I’m gaining interest on making my first ever guest post. Hesham encouraged me to do so.
As for that, I’m still thinking of a topic to write about. I just wanted my first ever guest post to be meaningful, that’s all.
Thanks for writing something like this and hope you’ll post more in the future. More power!
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July 18, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Nice post Murugappan,
Thanks for sharing these reasons about not wanting to guest post. These are the excuses I used to not guest post. Now I write for famous Bloggers at least once a month and several other months. I would prefer to guest more, but timing isn’t the best right now to spend a lot time guest writing.
I have talked with other new bloggers and they have said the same things about not wanting to as you mentioned above. If we can get the benefits across to everyone, then we can have more people guest writing for us.
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July 18, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Hey Murugappan,
Nice post dude. Doing guest post is really easy (at least for me).
I’ve done 4 guest posts so far and i’m really happy with the results.
Thanks for sharing this great Post. Great work man.
~Dev
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Were is rejection on the list. I thought that would be the main one. Spend a lot of time writing something, and fearing it could be rejected. Time wasted.
Some really good points. The main one for me, is not having a post accepted. Especially for the bigger bloggers, they expect you to send the fully written post before they will consider you. And because you have tailor written a post especially for their community, if it is not accepted then your post can go to waste (or you have to heavily edit it for someone else).
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Hi Murugappan,
When new to guest posting I was intimidated. I thought my writing style wasn’t up to snuff and that readers would be critical of my work.
After my first guest post I released this fear and have penned about 11 guest posts since then.
To me writing a guest post is a no-brainer. Fear may stop you but when the benefits are weighed it’s usually enough to counteract the fear.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
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I haven’t guest-posted in a while – as much as I like promotion, and contributing to others’ blogs, and helping people out, I do feel like I have something to say online, and I would prefer to say that on my own blog.
That doesn’t mean I’m opposed to guest-posting. In fact, I’d like to help a blog or two out by chipping in small updates (things like posts that link out a lot) here and there. But I do feel focus has to be on my content at this moment.
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Hi Murugappan. I believe that the perfect scenario is to have your own blog, but spend time guest blogging as well. Writing guest posts allows you to connect with a different group of visitors, thereby expanding your reach. In addition, you’re forming alliances with the blog owners, which means everyone wins. Even if some people fail to notice who the author is, many others will notice. If they enjoyed your post, some of them will naturally want to read more from you, and will click through to your blog. This gives you a chance to obtain new loyal blog visitors.
I hope anyone who has been afraid to be a guest blogger in the past, will take your advice and go for it. It’s a win-win-win situation.
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Thanks for tip, Donna!
But still, i like guest blogging coz it has less responsibilities and therefore a tenth-grader can be tension free. if i have my own blog i’ll have to try hard getting more traffic, be regular in posting…
Guest-blog if you are a passionate blogger and write in your own blog if you are a professional blogger – that’s my motto!
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