How To Increase Your Incoming Guest Posts

by Kiesha Easley on September 5, 2010 · 70 comments






How To Increase Your Incoming Guest Posts

What do you do when you need a guest post for your blog and no one’s responding to your invitations?

Have you ever been in dire need of fresh content for your blog, but there’s no time to write and no matter how many times you post an announcement that you are “Now Accepting Guest Posts!” – your in-box remains empty? Now you’ve got to skip a day and leave your blog stagnant, yet another day.

Everyday you leave your blog untouched, you loose traffic and reduce the chance that your blog will reach new readers. No new content means no new retweets, Stumbles, or shares on Facebook or other social networks. No new update means your blog is not growing – it’s sitting stagnant.

Of course, everywhere you look you read about the benefits of guest posting on other blogs, but you rarely read about where to find guest posts for YOUR blog.

It’s true guest posting is the best way to grow your blog – it gets you the exposure you need and brings in traffic and new subscribers like no other method. But it has a downside (link to old post) – it may hinder your ability to keep up with your own blog’s need for fresh content. With so many guest posts going out to others, how do you keep your own blog updated?

What do you when you need guest posts, but no one seems to be interested in submitting anything to your blog?

You can organize a guest post contest, but without lots of sponsors for cash prizes, you might not get very many quality submissions.

Thankfully, Ann Smarty has come to the rescue with her new site and forum – MyBlogGuest.   She’s recently added the ability to search a gallery of submitted guest posts that you may use for your blog.

This feature used to be a premium member only benefit, but now it’s open to everyone.

You can visit this site and find guest posts, already written and ready for publication. How awesome is that?

So the next time you’re in a pinch and need fresh, unique content for your blog, jump over to MyBlogGuest.

Have you been trying increase your incoming guest posts? Do you think this is a service that could help you? What other tips could you offer bloggers who need more guest posts for their blog?

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Jawahar September 13, 2010 at 9:16 am

Great tips. Thank you for sharing
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Ana from Blog Traffic Generation September 14, 2010 at 3:31 am

Great advice, Kiesha. I just recently learned of Ann’s website and am planning on taking full advantage of it now that I started to accept guest posts.

Ana Hoffman
http://www.TrafficGenerationCafe.com
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M.sai - Dailyblogtools.com October 29, 2011 at 8:46 am

thanks for your cooment ana.i agree with you.really nice points
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Richard Chidike | Motivatory September 16, 2010 at 11:06 pm

This is a very important post with reference to a wonderful site. This goes to show that some people are really working hard in assisting others make a headway through blogging.
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Raj from macbookreview January 16, 2011 at 10:59 am

Hi
Great technique to increase guest post.I think the technique of giving adsense revenue back to the guest post member is also good.

Thanks For Sharing
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Brad Harmon from Big Feet Marketing February 13, 2011 at 5:19 am

I already snagged the best guest blogger for my site, Kiesha. It was you! :)

I followed your sidebar link from WeBlogBetter to this post. I didn’t know about Ann’s new site (I guess it’s not new now, but it is to me). I’ve just included a couple of her posts in my latest blog on guest posting. She knows her stuff, doesn’t she?

Thanks for sharing Ann’s site with us. I’ll be heading over there to check it out.
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Kiesha from WeBlogBetter February 13, 2011 at 6:54 am

Hi Brad!
Thanks! You’re too kind :) I appreciate it. And yes, you’ve definitely got to set up an account on MyBlogGuest, they’ve got some new features that will allow guest posters to post to your blog and submit for review – a big time saver. :)
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TechBlogger February 19, 2011 at 3:21 am

Nice Post! I will certainly give it a try :)
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Online Marketing August 4, 2011 at 11:00 am

MyBlogGuest is a great community for guest posters and bloggers, I am a member since a few months ago and I have recieved many valuable guest posts that help me increase traffic, I recomment it to anyone who needs guest posts
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Robin from Samsung Tablet August 16, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Organising a contest for guest posting seems to be a very good idea and it can bring in many posts at a time. Excellent information indeed.
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Mukundan Srinivasan November 28, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Sharing revenue with guest bloggers is the important step for getting more guests. Other than that reciprocal guest posting is also equally important.

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