Friday, August 30, 2013

How to write a great guest post?

Many people are now being convinced of the benefits that can arise from doing guest blogging activities. Guest blogging not only helps the guest blogger reach more people and promote his or her product, service or website to a different audience but also helps the website or blog accepting guest posts gain high quality content and build good and lasting relationships with guest bloggers. However, a lot of people seem to have problems when they do guest posts and often don’t make the most out of the guest blogging activities. Therefore, here are some of the most important things that guest bloggers have to consider and take note of in order for them to create great guest posts that work!

1. Take note of the website or blog where you will post.

The website or blog where you will post your guest article should be taken into consideration first before you even start writing. First, you have to make sure that the blog or website has a good reputation and an acceptable traffic. Next, you must see to it that the blog’s audience is appropriate or will be interested in your product, service, or website that you will be promoting.

Afterwards, take some time to look at the posts that are currently written in the blog or website. Take note of the style, tone, and the range of topics that are usually talked about. It’s also best if you read the blog or website’s most popular posts and see how people or the readers are reacting to it by reading the comments. Use this as your basis or model for writing your guest post. See to it that the style and topic will be of interest to the readers and that they would find time to read it even if it is a guest post. The bottom line is that your post must not be too different from the rest of the articles present in that website and must be able to blend in and comparable enough to the best articles ever written in that website or blog.

2. Take note of the blog or website’s audience.

After you have analyzed the blog or website you then have to take a look at the people reading the website. You must be able to identify what they like and don’t like. Remember that your goal is to reach these people and make them your readers as well. Analyze the reasons why they are visiting that website or blog where you are going to do the guest post and apply it to your own strategy. However, you must also be careful not to be too similar to the website or blog where you will do the guest posts because this will make the impression that you have nothing different or new to offer them, resulting for them not bothering to take a look at your website or even consider your product or service.

3. Focus on your writing style.

Make it to a point that you showcase your unique writing style to the readers when you do guest blogging. It’s important that they recognize or distinguish your writing and find your topic interesting enough for them to visit your own website. Talk about interesting topics but also at the same time give the readers the feeling of wanting more of the kind of stuff that you have written. When readers feel like they want to see more of you inevitably they will visit and become regular readers of your website. Remember to always provide high quality and interesting guest posts because these represent your websites to other people and these guest posts are your ticket to success as well.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Frustrations Of An Ethical Guest Blogger



Do you have a blog that needs traffic and backlinks? Did you hear about how great guest blogging is for your site? If you can’t wait to jump the gun on guest blogging because of its benefits, then you should probably hold your horses and read on to learn the challenges and frustrations that ethical guest bloggers encounter in the blogosphere.

I’m not trying to discourage you out of guest blogging; I just want you to understand that it’s not all rainbows and sunshine in the world of guest blogging. You’ll certainly encounter a lot of challenges and frustrations that can break your determination and possibly gets you to think of quitting.

By reading this article, you will have a better understanding of what it takes to succeed as a guest blogger. You’ll come to understand the challenges and frustrations that most guest bloggers encounter and be able to come up with a plan and be ready to face them.

You should understand that you are not alone and you’re certainly not first to encounter these frustrations. Your determination will determine whether you will succeed or not. If you quit, then of course you would fail but if you’re persistent in learning and writing then someday your time will come.

The first challenge in guest blogging is finding the right blog to get your article published. This is after you have written an article that you’ve researched like crazy, optimized to be search engine friendly and had made sure that it’s 100% unique and plagiarism free.


You would probably find a lot of blogs out there and it is important to choose the right blog for you. You should be wary of deceitful bloggers that would steal your article faster than a Ferrari. What makes this very frustrating and infuriating is that you’ll just suddenly find your article that you’ve worked so hard for in another blog and they have taken all the credit.

You should also avoid bloggers that are charging guest bloggers a fee just to review your guest post request and does not even guarantee that your article will be published. Just cross out this blogger and look somewhere else.

Why not just guest post on top blog? If these top blogs publish your article then it would be like winning American Idol. This would certainly improve your reputation and credibility but as I’ve mentioned, it’s like winning American Idol which only happens once a year. The competition to attract the attention of the blog manager is very fierce and these blog managers are also a 100 times busier than most bloggers.

You should certainly avoid blogs that are dead or dying. If there are no updates to the blog for months then that itself would be a good reason to cross it out of your list. And you would also encounter bloggers that think that they are on top even if they are not. It’s when they get moderate traffic that they suddenly require guest bloggers to walk barefoot on a road full of broken glass while playing the violin and singing at the same time. It’s ridiculous!




At the time that you’ve chosen a blog, don’t be surprised to see a 2000- word manual for guest posting. It’s like they don’t want you to submit a guest blog from these manual and even you have already read through the manual, it is still not clear whether you should send your article through email or contact form.

Blog owners also have the habit of not getting back to you once you’ve submitted your request. This is certainly frustrating because it would leave you wondering whether the blogger has read your request or not. It would also force you to face a difficult decision if you should request that same article to a different blog or still wait for the response of the first blogger.

What you really don’t want to happen is that the same content would be posted in two different blogs. This would surely damage your reputation and credibility if the two blogs would overlap audience-wise.

Though more blog sites have an easy process of submitting your guest post, there are still those out there that are quite challenging. You really need to stretch your patience and not be discouraged in facing these challenges and frustrations and instead face them with courage and confidence.

It’s your turn!

Whatever ideas comments or suggestions that you have, please share it in the comments section below.

I hope to hear from you soon. Cheers!

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Friday, August 23, 2013

What You Need to Know About SEO for Bing


Until 2010, it appeared that Google would perpetually be the king of the internet. SEO strategy for most SEO companies revolved solely around Google, with little thought to other search engines. However, with each additional year, Bing gains market share in the United States and abroad. Bing requires an approach to SEO that is similar to that of Google, but the best results are achieved by focusing on the unique Bing search algorithm separately.

Bing Indexing Differences

According to Microsoft's own internal memos, the company is now sharing a search algorithm with Yahoo – isn’t that crazy!? This merger means that the combined Bing/Yahoo entity now accounts for more than a quarter of all web traffic. Bing, however, has some technological limitations in the way that its web crawler indexes pages. 

  • For one, Bing does not support canonical URL tagging, so web designers must be careful with how they manage their URL's through the Bing Webmaster Tools.
  • Additionally, some shopping sites might be negatively impacted by Bing's page limit. Since Bing only indexes 100k pages on any given root domain, sites with many different product pages would be better served by spreading them categorically across several domains.
  • Bing does not allow the use of meta-refreshes, and it further does not support any form of redirect other than a 302.
  • An experience SEO company should be able to take a look at your website to determine if it meets the standards of both Google and Bing, and ensure that the site won't be de-indexed due to sloppy programming.

Backlinks for Bing


As most web-savvy developers know, the majority of a website's Page Rank is dependent on the number, but more importantly the quality, of its backlinks. Bing has a smaller search index than Google, so it is unable to see some of the backlinks that Google sees.

For SEO purposes, this means that your SEO company should focus on a smaller number of backlinks on high authority websites that are clearly indexed by Bing. Interestingly, Bing has been known to drop a website from its search results if it doesn’t have at least one external backlink pointing to it.

Conclusion

Bing is not going away anytime soon. In fact, if Bing continues to grow at the same rate, it is likely to account for nearly half of all search traffic by 2020. SEO authorities need to modify both their internal page design as well as their link building, or link earning, strategy to account for Bing's quirks and differences. As Bing continues to evolve, it is likely that it will become even more differentiated from Google, and it will force an even bigger shift in SEO strategy.

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