9 Guest Posting Tips: Increase Your Chances to Be Accepted

As I have promised, this post will be dedicated to guest posting tips.

You want to be accepted, don’t you? So, let’s increase your chances and look at the most important factors that should not be ignored by you.

But before stepping to those tips, I’ll remind the main benefits of guest posting and its definition.

Definition & Benefits of Guest Posting

Guest posting is simply the idea of serving as a guest writer for another blog or website. It sounds weird, but it only sounds like that. Technically, guest posting provides a variety of tremendous benefits for both you (a guest blogger) and the blog owner, where you want to guest post.

You should remember that… You both have benefits. And if you abase yourself, offering your guest post, you simply don’t understand the value of the gift you are giving.

Benefits of Guest Posting:

1. Decent amount of targeted traffic;
2. Almost guaranteed new subscribers;
3. Quality backlinks;
4. Confidence in yourself, improved reputation and authority;

Benefits of Accepting Guest Posts:

1. You get a day-off;
2. Guest post on your blog will be most likely promoted by the guest blogger;
3. Additional promotion as a blog, that accepts guest posts;

Now let’s get to the tips.

9 Simply Powerful Guest Posting Tips

1. Avoid Being a Flashlight.

   What I mean by that is that you need to appear on a targeted blog (where you want to guest post) as a commenter.

   Make several memorable comments before guest posting. Possibly, this will not lead to some long discussion, but, trust me, you will get the blog’s author attention, because we all read every single comment we get.

   And we naturally build ideas about our commenters.

2. It’s Your First Guest Post? Do Your Very Best!

   Sometimes, it’s very difficult to give away your best posts. I know that.. I used to think it is better to publish my best works on my own blog, rather than on someone else’s.

   But treat it like that – there will be other times for even better posts, that you can publish on your blog. Today, it’s time to promote what you already have. Plus, you can make some sort of a “roundup” of your recent guest posts.

3. 2 Sentences to Catch Readers’ Eyes.

   In most cases, you are allowed to write several sentences about you in the end of your guest post. You have to think really hard on them, because this is your, say, fish-rod.

   What I wouldn’t recommend to write is sentences like “My passion is blogging.. blah-blah-blah“, or “I blog about SEO and blogging tips“, or “I am a part-time blogger and blah-blah-blah“.

   Those examples are so-o-o boring! If you have written something like that, then your guest post was a simple backlink to your blog..

4. Experience vs Assumption.

   Why something, that you have experienced is much more better, than things you haven’t tried, though you know them very well… but as an assumption? Because people are full of assumptions, ideas and hypotheses.

   They want to know how this or that works with others, they want to know your experience. Plus, if you have some successful story from your past or simply your own unique story (we all have them), then this is the best guest posting idea to write about.

5. Detect the Style & Improve It In Your Guest Post.

   This is a great idea to follow the blog author’s style of writing.. of course, if you know how to.

   This will provide some special and unexplained feeling, that you are the one, that you differ from other guest bloggers. That blog’s author, where you want to guest post, most likely will not be able to explain, why you fit like that…

   You can use this method applying some of the blog author’s most used expressions or rare words, that he or she uses. Couple of them in the beginning of your guest post, couple of them in the end.. This will do the job.

   Don’t forget to improve the blog author’s style. How you can do that?

   Find the most used structures of posts. Try to detect places, where those structures could be improved. Possibilities are endless.

6. Prepare Your Own Blog For Guest Posting Effects.

   You realize, that the guest posting itself is the next step of your blog promotion, right? Is your blog ready for it?

   Do you have an “About Me” page? Is your navigation fine? Are there any details you might want to improve? Do you monetize your blog properly?

   Your traffic is about to explode – don’t lose the opportunity to monetize it. Besides, new visitors will get used to your blog with ads much more faster, than if you would have placed ads later.

7. Write SEO-Friendly Guest Posts.

   You don’t care about that blog’s SEO.. I know that. But he or she does. And this is your minus, if you don’t consider to optimize your post. You simply lose to your guest posting competitors.

   Impress the blog’s author with your SEO skills, make him/her love you, because you are doing his/her job, you save his/her hours of on page omptimization. Stand from the crowd and be number 1 to be accepted on that particular blog in the future.

8. Keep Your Positions After Your Guest Post Is Accepted.

   How you supposed to do that?

   There will be comments. This is 100% guaranteed. Don’t you think to leave them without your replies? So, don’t. This will show, that you are, actually, social enough. This simple thing can also lead to some extra subscribers or simply to your own future readers

9. Compete With Other Guest Posting Submissions And Win!

   If it comes to guest posting on some A-list blog, then don’t doubt – you have very strong competitors, and there are a lot of them.

   But stay cool and just go on with guest posting. If you are following the 8 previous tips – your chances are doubled (…at least) to be accepted.

   Besides, even if you were not accepted.. it doesn’t mean, that you should start to cry and never come back. Big bloggers may not notice you in the beginning, but keep trying sending guest posts. One of them could be accepted and this means, that your next guest posts most likely would be also accepted.

   This is it.. you are now officially riding guest posting.

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