What You Need To Know As A Guest Blogger

Guest blogging is the act of writing and submitting content to other people's blog for free. The person that is writing the article is known as a guest blogger. Guest blogging is free but it is famous because both the guest blogger and the owner of the blog will both benefit from the association. Is like "symbiosis" relationship in biology.
The blog owner get enough contents to meet up with his ever increasing readers demand while the guest blogger get the chance to market his blog and get traffic through backlinks he provides in the post.
Guest blogger is similar to freelance writer but you get paid as a freelance writer while you write for free in guest blogging.

How do i find blog to write for as a guest blogger 

By using diplomacy approach

This is kind of approach where you first visit the blog and comment for sometimes. Let your comments be meaningful and useful because with this the blog owner will see you as a career mate, someone who is sensible and brilliant in that field. Try to build a relationship with the blog owner and after that you can ask to guest blog.

Use search engines

Another method is to search on google for blogs in your niche that you can guest blog for. Assuming you are looking for furniture blogs to write for, then go to google search and type " write for us " < furniture > and click search. what you will see next are results for furniture blogs that need guest bloggers. Another method is to simply type -blog that need guest bloggers- in search engines.

Some of guest blogging ethics you need to know

If you are given a rare chance make sure you utilize the opportunity by writing qualitative and quantitative post.

Make sure the number of words in your post is more than 500.

Let your letters be factual, simple, clear and not repetitive.

Don't copy and paste article from another blog. Take your time to do research and write the post in your own way i.e be original.

You should know that you want to add value to the site and not extracting value from it with your post that look spamming.

By posting a quality and informative contents on other people's site you are thereby making people see you has someone who is reliable, authoritative and useful.

Write in good manner and don't be aggressive by asking people to follow your link or visit your site.

I suggest you familiarize yourself with the blog owner and the blog contents so that you will know the manner, vission and mission of the blog as this will help you to write content that will meet up with their standard.

You can follow the blog on social media and even help to share some of the blog post on your page.

Guest blogging certainly help a blog to get exposure, awareness and traffic from backlinks so don't be stingy with your best post when you are guest blogging. It is human to build our house with quality materials because we don't want to die from house collapse while we build other people's house with inferior materials because we want to make money. To succeed as a guest blogger avoid this human trait and always give out one of your best post.

Don't focus on what you want to gain from your guest blogging but on how you want to add value to the blog, increase people's knowledge and build a good reputation for yourself. If you do these, other benefits you don't foresee will be yours in the longrun.

Some of the sites you can visit in order to get blogs that need guest blogger includes:

GuestBlogGenius, BlogDash, Buzzstream, postjoint, myBlogGuest, Guestr, Blogsynergy, google.com/blogsearch

Finally, when you have posted an article for guest posting, don't go back and change or edit anything as this may mean that you are misguiding the readers and this will put your reputation and the reputation of the blog owner in question.

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