When you have a product, you want people to see it. On the Internet, the product in question is often your website, and besides the people who already know about it and visit it regularly, a sizable portion of your site traffic should be the result of search engine queries. Given the role search engines play in a site’s performance, it’s no wonder why everyone who works on the web is obsessed with search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is the process through which a site improves its position on a search engine’s results page. There are many different ways to approach SEO, and writing guest blogs is one of the most effective methods out there. By sharing your work (with a link to your personal blog) on a well-received and often-frequented blog or site, you’ll introduce a different and wider audience to your work while building strong links back to your own site.
Creating Your SEO Strategy
When devising an SEO strategy, it’s important to understand how search engines view and rank websites. Obviously the algorithms are top secret, but the factors that the engines value are widely known. Like the people using them, search engines seek sites that provide visitors with original, high-quality content because they want to present the user with the best possible results for their query. That’s why, regardless of how amazingly written your blogs are, writing solid, regularly-updated posts won’t convince the search engine that your blog is definitely worth visiting; you need someone else to also vouch for the quality of your work. A guest blog that’s featured on a site with an established audience will serve as a ringing endorsement of your blog, and the search engine, upon viewing the guest blog, will have an improved perception of your site due to your relationship with one known to be of quality.
Writing Guest Blog Posts
As for the actual blog, general content rules apply: Your post should be comprehensive, and you should use keywords. Whether you decide to write an entirely new blog or share one of your old favorites is up to you, but since your guest blog will be the first time many people encounter your writing, be sure that the guest blog encapsulates your blog’s personality and point of view — after all, you’re doing all this work to get people to visit and to continue visiting your blog.
Who to Write for
In addition to your content, it’s important to consider where you want to contribute a guest blog. Reputation matters a lot on the Internet, so you should pursue guest blogging opportunities on blogs that cover similar topics or topics that intersect organically with your blog’s subject matter. As SEO illustrates, relationships carry a lot of the weight on the Internet, and writing a guest blog is a great way to introduce your work to a new audience while forming a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with another blogger.
Joshua oversees community relations for the University of Southern California, which provides a Masters in Military Social Work degree online and an opportunity for Social Work Licensure.
Well gotta agree on one point, regarding regular updating, i update my blog after 8 months, but their was not difference in visitors and other things, just a bit drop in Alexa ranking and nothing else
There are a number of internet marketers doing guest posting. If you Google their name with a common introductory phrase like “this weeks guest post is by” you can see this is a technique some have used hundreds of times.
Try it with someone in your niche and you may find lots of potential sites to approach.
Not number but most of internet marketers are doing so nowadays just because this has been proved effective in link building without fears of panda or penguin
thanks for sharing this post. Blogging is a great way to share useful information with the users. It also helps great to get more traffic. a nice and a useful on blogging.
All mention points are important. but Guest posting and commenting is the best part of SEO Strategy.
Well it looks like your new theme (Thesis 2) has some sort of problem with commenting. I am facing problem with it.
What exactly the problem you mean? Everything is fine from my site
I am also facing the problem, first of all I need to fillup the comment form again and again. secondly: while commenting I can’t select and delete words.
One thing I like to do is every now and then review my old post’s and see which ones i can update. that way the info doesn’t get stale and it also bring in new traffic sometimes.
Well said, one can write guest posts in top blogging sites. One can also write reviews with an affilate which might increase your business. Building your audience is the ultimate thing in blogging.
Word of mouth is one of the best marketing tools available, and social media sites feed directly into the conversation. Include social share widgets for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, StumbleUpon, etc. with every post so that interested readers can pass content along to their friends and colleagues.
Well, I think if you are a determined person, And ready to compete with other then you are getting it.
Determination is what it makes possible for us to achieve our Goal.
In your post here you say do guest posting. I went to google and searched for online games guest posting blogs and their was no good results. How do people find sites that allow a guest post for particular types of sites and stuff? Thanks.
SEO is really important. We have to learn it. Good share buddy!
Keep it up.
Blog is your second website or almost sister site providing related extra information. One of the best sources to get good traffic.
Nice and more informative post……I agree with all your points Thanks for the sharing…….
this articles gives is a good suggestion for beginners and seems quite useful for other bloggers
Consider writing guest posts for big technology blogs where one could get more reputation and recognition.
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Now more than ever on site seo seems to be more and more important as google is constantly trying to rank the best sites higher and drop the rubbish. I know I can improve my on site seo and have been playing with it for a while. Link building now I think has to be the long game no more of this whack out 1000 backlinks in a day. To me this is a positive
Thanks lee
After the Penguin and Panda updates “Guest post” authority is on rise. Thinking logically, working fundamental of the article submission websites (like ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com etc) is somehow doubtful. They are “used only for backlinks” purpose by almost every author and the moderator process are less strict.
A good blog always attracts the readers and if your blog is well known then guest writing can be an advantage over it. It always helps to build the audience.