This is a guest post by Anil Gupta from ScopeForMoney.com. In this post, you will get to know 5 effective ways to get more guest bloggers writing on your blog.
Google love blogs as they are updated with fresh and targeted content on regular basis. And as a blogger, it becomes a big challenge coming up with quality posts on regular basis. This is where guest blogging comes into play.
Guest blogging is beneficial for the guest posters and blog owners. With guest blogging, guest posters are able to get valuable and quality one-way backlinks, traffic and branding for their websites with various anchor texts. And with guest blogging concept, blog owners are able to get targeted content coming on their blogs from other website owners and bloggers in their own and related niches.
But now the real problem arises, how to find guest bloggers who will be interested in writing guest posts on your blog. If you are facing the similar problem, I’m going to share 5 tips to help you with getting lots of guest posts coming on your blog:
1. Popular Blogs in Your Niche
Spend some time browsing some of the popular blogs in your niche and make a list of bloggers and website owners contributing guest posts there. Contact all guest bloggers and invite them for guest blogging on your blog. If you have decent blog, there is a good chance that lots of people will respond positively to your invitation.
2. Create Submit Post Section
Create a “Submit Post Section” on your blog indicating your blog readers the opportunity to write guest posts on your blog. You should mention some basic details like the kind of content you accept, words length, link policy, how to contact you etc. on that page.
3. Holding Contests
You can get lots of targeted outputs by holding contests and giving away stuffs that matters. You can think of creating a guest blogging contest on your blog, which will motivate lots of guest bloggers to write for your blog.
I have been running a guest blogging contest on my blog, which looks a great success to me looking the kind of response I’m getting from other bloggers and website owners in the form of guest posts. So you can repeat the same kind of success on your blog doing a similar contest.
4. Inviting Old Guest Bloggers to Contribute More
If your blog has already got some guest posts published from other bloggers. Then why not generate a list of all guest bloggers and invite them to submit further guest posts on your blog. On seeing your guest posts invitation there will be some who will actually be interested in writing more guest posts for your blog. I got some level of success using this technique as well.
5. Create Threads on Discussion Forums
Create threads on MyBlogGuest (a site completely dedicated to guest blogging), Digitalpoint Forum, SitePoint, Warrior Forum kind of discussion forums created around webmasters, SEO and blogging communities. Lots of guest bloggers browse these discussion forums as a way to find blogs where they can submit their guest posts. So you should see some positive response coming on your threads created on these discussion forums.
Do you have something more to add to this list, please share it in the comments section below.
Nice tips Anil, I have always read articles on how to guest posts, how to be a better guest blogger and I must say that finding a good guest blogger is an important task. Adsense revenue sharing is always useful to tempt guest bloggers to writer for your blog. Apart from that I agree with you that having a “Submit Guest Post” section is good way to attract guest bloggers.
great tips, guest posts are win-win situation, owner of the blog gets free article and article author gets backlink + traffic.
This is interesting Anil, I hadn’t thought about having a guest post on my blog, although I always enjoy reading them. I think the easiest way would be your #1 suggestion, contacting people who are already writing guest posts.
My blog hasn’t got a focus, I write about anything, so it may be more difficult for me to find another contributor, though I will certainly consider this for the future. Thanks for the idea Anil.
John
I am always interested in having some guest bloggers due to the fact that we it is hard to be on my game every day or two for an article. Thanks for the tips on who to find and where to find them.
I’m with you, Eddie. It’s refreshing because a lot of the time I might not be 110% on my game when its time to write, and it’s nice to get another voice on your blog to spicen it up. Also, trading content is also a lot of fun because you can reach your buddy bloggers audience, and he/she can reach yours as well! Everyone wins.
Another tip would be to not forget about new bloggers out there. This was sort of mentioned but not in full context. There are plenty of great writers online and some of them do not even have a blog, but they freelance write, write website content etc. The nice thing about getting people to guest post is that the blog owner decides what gets approved and what doesn’t. Therefore, even if you have never heard of the writer before or are not sure of his or her qualities, then you will be able to read the post before posting and make a decision on whether or not it is quality content that will fit your blog well.
Anil – You’ve listed some great tips here. I haven’t started looking for guest bloggers to write guest posts on my blog yet but when I do I will use these tips as my guideline to attracting guest bloggers to my blog.
I love idea of using forums such as digital point to find people who are interested in leaving a guest post on your blog. I will definitely try out this strategy soon, thanks for the tips.
I have over 25 Blogs which are have to get daily updates and the guest blogging source for content is one of the main resource for new content on this blogs. Every blog is a famous and reliable blog in its own niche, so if you have sucha blog it is simple to get some great authors which are writing great posts.
But very cool tips. I think for blog beginners it could be a very very useful post.
Cheers,
Manfred
These are real good tips! I love especially the idea to hold a contest for guest bloggers, it is smart indeed! Well done!
Great post but I wonder if it works for smaller blogs that don’t have their names out there yet.