Day 26: Guest Star on Niche-Relevant Blogs to Boost Your Exposure
Posted on August 25th, 2009 by Jim under 30-Day Blogging
We’re stringing together two consecutive posts (a first?) today, and getting you another powerful marketing technique. Because we have built up our blog from scratch and have everything monetized and ready to go… we need to get the word out to interested readers, so it’s time for a little bit of marketing! 
Our strategy yesterday was to steal some traffic (and, more importantly, readers) from popular blogs in your niche area. Now, we are going to expand upon this method and even more fully infiltrate other bloggers’ domains by guest posting.
Why Guest Posting Rocks
Guest posting is a great way to expand your reach and your reader base because you are literally putting your top stuff right in front of another established audience. While I want to encourage you to focus in on your own blog, there is definitely room to grow by branching out and giving content (with a link back) to other sites. By doing this, you are going to tap into a fresh pool of hundreds of readers, and throwing your link out there isn’t a bad way to boost your own RSS numbers and generate some good leads.
How to Properly Guest Post
Since we are doing this in 30 minutes, I would recommend using your time to search around for contact information from bloggers you know and bloggers that are popular on the internet. A great way to find relevant bloggers is to do a keyword search in Google’s Blog Search Engine, a targeted source for the web’s popular websites. Once you have a list, start making some content! 
When you write for someone else’s blog, you need to make sure first off that you are producing quality work. If people aren’t enjoying what you are writing… who is going to subscribe to your blog? It’s debatable whether you want to put forth your top stuff, or simply a teaser to get users to come over to your website for better stuff, but most agree that guest posts must be interesting.
Once you have your content and your list of potential blogs to post to, go ahead and shoot out your articles to the people on your contact list and see if they will post it and get you a link back. You always want to give them the content up front… I can’t tell you how many people ask me “can I guest post?” to which I reply “I’m not sure, you haven’t showed me anything.”
PRO TIP: One thing that I have done is hire an article writer from the Digital Point Forums to make me 500-word articles for a few bucks… and then sent those out en masse to blogs in my area. This will get you tons of high-quality back links if you do it right.
Assuming that you have followed this “game plan,” it won’t be long before you have new users coming in from your competitor’s blogs asking for more of your stuff. Congratulations… you have just converted a following! 
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Thanks for great blogging advice
Excellent idea. Get a freelancer to write you a great article and submitting it to blog authors sounds like a winner. Considering buy links can be very expensive, the investment in having an article written for fee is a wise investment.
Hire a ghost writer to help write quality material is a common task amongst business owners. Due to the lack of a standard price with ghost writers, business owners tend to shop around and hire a ghost writer who they think is the cheapest. But is this a smart thing to do? Can you really justify paying triple the price for a professional ghost writer?
Amazing tips and ideas. Guest blogging does rock! The PRO TIP is really efficient and comes in pretty cheap
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Guest post is the cheapest way to get backlinks. The only thing it costs is your hardwork.
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This is a great technique thanks for sharing it. Guest posts are a great way to get subscribers and some traffic. Especially if you write good content. I like the idea of hiring a professional writer to write the article for you. But if they ever want you to come back you would have to hire the same writer.
Thanks for stopping by and for the comment brother, I am still kicking and screaming…but not as much as I would like. The businesses are keeping me pretty busy.
Best,
TAM
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But finding a good writer on digital point can be hard. I rarely get satisfied with the quality of writers in that forum
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Guest posting is a good idea and using your contacts and networking with other bloggers can definitely help in that respect.
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You are right it could be very beneficial.
Thanks for the tip! This is one of the few things I have not gotten around to trying yet. I will definitely have to try it, as it does seem like it would be a very valuable backlink.
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Guest posting always DO WONDERS. Everyone should do it. I know this because I am the only stupid person who does it rarely.
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I think guest posting, (not mentioning contests) is the fastest way to boost a blogs popularity,.,
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I still prefer Guest posting since it has the magic wand to get much popularity.
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Guest star is nice idea, i will try.
David
Comments posted by guest star is awesome idea to boost the exposure of the blog or website. By this guest posting, the exposure will raise along with the comments made by the guests on our blogs about their valuable content and information.
We are almost there. 4 more days to go, or well, 4 more post!
Waiting for the next few. You are doing an awesome job, Jim!
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This post contain with very good blogging advices. thanks for it.
Guest post brings quality, unique content which brings good PR ranking at Google. In this way, blogger can attract more visitors through search engines.
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Google values backlinks as much as the actual content of your website. They think that if other publishers link to your website, it indicated that your content is quality content.
By creating quality articles and publishing them to as guest post on different blogs, you will gain very good backlinks. Publishers go on article websites and get content to publish to their website with a link to your website as a credit for the free article he just grabbed.
there is definitely room to grow by branching out and giving content (with a link back) to other sites. By doing this, you are going to tap into a fresh pool of hundreds of readers, and throwing your link out there isn’t a bad way to boost your own RSS numbers and generate some good leads.
Blogger can attract viewers through search engines, great blogging advice.
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that’s good ! nice information for making a blog.
That is true. Writing guest posts can do wonders for your blog and so can doing interviews as well. One thing that I want to know is how to get bloggers to write guest posts for my blog. I have approached a couple of people but the declined (not so much as in saying no) but the communication went cold.
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Quite creative idea of properly guest post and believes its also gives big room to grow, guest post also may become helpful to expand our contact and reach to different blogger.
We are looking forward to you for another interesting update. I hope you will make it very soon. thanks
Very interesting, your site has very good information. lol
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Good idea! I think i should start guest posting too.
I would say that guest posts do add significance if:
1. Writer is known in his niche
2. Post exudes the quality
3. It’s mutually beneficial.
It would definitely benefit if both the blogs are doing well in same niche.
Guest start make the variation of content point of view. Thanks for the idea.
Kus
thanks for the tips
You can Hire a freelancer to write you articles and submitting it to blog authors.
Great point. Not only does guest posting get you exposure to people who might be interested in following you, but this also gets you some great high quality back links to help boost the search engine ranking of your own blog. This is a strategy every serious Internet Marketer or blogger should use.
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Guest post are great source of traffic, once i wrote a guest post on John Chow dot Com, i can say on the that basis that you automatically get notice by hundred of new visitors and readers.
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When you make a guest post on a popular blog, you’ll also see quite the traffic spike as people read the post and then click through to your own blog. The better you present yourself and your blog in the post (which is usually done in the form of a one paragraph bio at the end), the more traffic you will see from your guest appearance. Put some serious thought into your guest post, make it good and then craft a compelling by-line.
Thanks for the blog post, quality information as always!
Thanks Jim
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You make a lot of good points in this post. I didn’t think about asking an established blog if I could guest post. It’d make one less post for them, and could really bring on a bunch of new readers for myself. Makes sense! Win Win Situation, and I like those
Guest blogging is a great way to gain more links. Include one or two links in your post to related content on your own website and start building up those links with each guest post you write.
Hey Jim, Haven’t been over in awhile and must apologize for that. I am just getting around to doing my social networking and reading some great posts lately. This one of yours is very informative and I like your idea about guest posting although it’s not a new thought but I think it’s one that we tend to forget about. I seem to get quite a few guest post for MY blog, but I would never or seem to have enough time to write a post for someone else. When I ask for a guest post I do however like to make sure that they have a great blog of their own and that they can convey what I need them to, to my readers.Thanks for the reminder and the good info. jj
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Really great read – are you having fun with it? Keep up the good work and good luck with your site!
Great advice on this blog post. There’s no question that guest posting might be one of the best ways to get more exposure, find interested readers, and gather good back links all with one fell swoop. Can’t ask for better than that.
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I concur. Guest posting is a great way to get exposure if it is an option…though in some niches you might be hard pressed to find many other related blogs.
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Due to the lack of a standard price with ghost writers, business owners tend to shop around and hire a ghost writer who they think is the cheapest. But is this a smart thing to do? Can you really justify paying triple the price for a professional ghost writer?
I could be interested in guest posting, give me a shout
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Superb Idea…Great Tips..i really like this type of tips……
I do article exchange a lot and it’s way better than link exchange since you will not only gain a good content but also will get a quality backlink compared to link exchange. Thanks for the great article about guest posting, sometimes it’s hard to look for a site that will accept your offer.
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Can you really justify paying triple the price for a professional ghost writer?
here’s no question that guest posting might be one of the best ways to get more exposure, find interested readers, and gather good back links all with one fell swoop. Can’t ask for better than that.
It’s a very great thought Jim!
I’d see all kinds of ads about blogging on the Internet to earn money, but don’t know of anybody that has actually made any money this way. I’d love to hear from anybody who has.
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I participate a lot in blogs relevant to mine by doing blog commenting and also asking for an exchange article to gain backlinks and good content. I usually hire writers since I’m not that good at writing articles.
The truth is, I find it a hard time guest posting. Some blog owners are picky <_<
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What a wonderful and powerful strategy! I tested it with my own website, and with relatively low cost I was able to achieve great results. It’s definitely worth spending more of my time to refine it even further. As a general rule, hiring a freeelancer to do tedious tasks is always a great solution.
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I try and use guest writers often. It’s a great way to not only forge links and relationships but it is also a good way of sharing experiences which overall makes for a better resource for your readers, which can only be a good thing!
I think it was a great idea with this article writer. I, personally, do something similar. I pay my friend from the university to do that;).
Considering buy links can be very expensive, the investment in having an article written for fee is a wise investment.
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but seriously very nice tips, PR tips are outstanding.