Why I still do Guest Blogging
Despite what Matt Cutts wrote, here is why I still guest blog.
Blogging
Blogs are one of the most popular forms of content marketing. That's probably because adding a blog to your site can be an extremely successful way to add timely content, attract engagement, and naturally increase your keyword relevance. You can even take this tactic off your site and use guest blogging as a way to earn links.
Whether you're a beginning blogger or have been blogging for years, there's always something new to be learned. Below you'll find the most recent posts from the Moz Blog. In addition, we've selected a few quality resources that deserve particular attention.
Is Content Marketing Right for My Business? : When marketing your business, you have several choices to invest in. What sets content marketing apart from other channel?
Blog Post Ideas: Maximize Your Reach with the Right Topics : How do you come up with the best topics for new blog posts? Here we explore different paths to great topic ideas.
When Is a Blog the Right Form of Content Marketing? : Blogging isn't for everyone. In fact, should you explore other types of content marketing first?
10 Simple Steps for Creating a Blog Your Readers Will Adore : You're blog is going nowhere if your audience doesn't love it. Here are tips for creating content that actually engages people.
Most Recent Articles on Blogging
Time for Guest Blogging With a Purpose
Guest blogging isn't dead. Being a Spammy McSpammer who only guest blogs to build links is dead.
Four Reasons Why Guest Posts on Popular Sites Don't Always Get Results (and What to Do about Them)
So you write a kick-ass article and publish it on a reputable blog. Surely, a post on [insert famous blog here] would send an avalanche of new visitors/subscribers/leads your way. Except that it doesn’t. What went wrong?
11 Marketing Survival Lessons Learned from Accidentally Enraging an Island City-State
600,000 unique visitors flooded in to read the post and half of them were not happy with me. This post outlines the 11 most important marketing lessons I learned from accidentally enraging a good portion of the island of Singapore.
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How to Live Blog for Links and Notoriety
Live blogging is equal parts exhilarating, nerve wracking and pressure filled. You need to think fast and use both sides of your brain as you soak in and spit out information at the same time. I imagine that a live blogger probably looks very similar to cookie monster to other conference goers as you pound away furiously at your computer and snap countless photos of the speaker.
Blogger Outreach - What Do They Think About SEOs?
Have you ever wondered why bloggers didn’t reply to your last outreach email? Why they refused to link to your shiny new infographic, or what they really think about SEOs? This post walks through the results from a survey of bloggers, offering a window into their world.
Five Steps to Finding (the Right) Guest-Blogging Opportunities
Guest blogging can be an effective way to build credibility and attract the right customers to your business and your community. Here are five simple steps for finding the right opportunities.
How to Get Your Guest Post Request Thrown in The Trash Instantly
As someone who is on both sides of guest posting, requester and requestee, I’ve seen my fair share of great guest post requests and I’ve seen some truly awful ones. The truly appalling requests get thrown out right away. Identifying these types of posts is pretty easy, so easy that I can scan through an email and usually label it trash within a few seconds. Here are six things to avoid when sending out guest posts requests if you don't want your request landing in the trash:
Guest Post Outreach Best Practices
This is a section from the Page One Power Employee Handbook, with minor edits. In the spirit of TAGFEE we thought it'd be fun and (hopefully) helpful to share some of the information and best practices we use internally. Hope you enjoy!
5 Unique Ways to Find Blog Post Ideas For Even the Most Painfully Boring Industries
It's no fun coming up with blog ideas in those boring industries outside of SEO and marketing. You know what I mean, the 'real' world of forklifts, car dealerships, garden furniture and bedding. Even when coming up with new content for your own blog, in your own specialty niche, sometimes it can be a bit tough.
10 Lessons from a 100k Pageview Post
This kind of thing might happen to Rand all the time, but it’s not often that a digital marketing company based in Leeds gets 100,000+ people reading anything it does (at least on its own site). That’s what unexpectedly happened to us on www.branded3.com a few weeks ago – what essentially started as a rant from some guy having a bad day blew up and now has 1,184 votes on Hacker News (and incoming links from some of the biggest sites in the world).
Deciding Where to Guest Blog: A TV Guide Approach
Guest blogging can be one of the most daunting tasks for both professionals and casual bloggers, alike. You are faced with this unfathomably large sea of information and you are trying to find someone who will accept your little guest post on how to make tastier sugar cookies (or whatever). It certainly isn’t easy, and it’s going to take a lot of leg work before you start posting material that will generate a following for your own blog. The best thing that you can do – and sometimes, the only thing that you can do – is to try and impress a reputable blog to start building your own credibility as a writer.
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. We're going to help you combat this by sharing how we got posts up on ProBlogger and Search Engine Journal, and by introducing you to our strategy for success with our clients.
How To Blog Successfully About Anything
In order to create a successful blog, you must be passionately curious about the topic you're covering. Learn how to turn even the most uninteresting blog post topics into goldmines with these tips for successful bloggers.