What is a guest post?

What is a guest post?

Complete Guide to Writing Guest Posts for SEO (+ 6 privacy to get backlinks): A guest post submits an external author with an SEO backlink to its website.

A guest post is submitted to an external author with an SEO backlink to his website.

A guest post is an article posted on a website for free that is not owned by any website and usually has other professions and if a full-time writer, writes in most other publications.

 

If the author writes regularly and primarily for that website, then he is not a regular writer and guest blogger.

If the author is paid to write, he is probably not a paid writer and guest blogger, meaning his work will be submitted to the website and not with a doll-follow backlink to his own website.

Backlinks must be do-follow and counted by search engines, which is usually the case with blog posts - otherwise, there is no point in writing for any other website without being paid and without any written or SEO credit!

Guest postings are usually free, or can be paid in the end but should never be charged. If you pay to have your content published somewhere, it is still considered a sponsored post.

 

It may happen that you get paid for guest posting, but this is not common and should be decided in advance. In this case you should also make sure that in order to improve the SEO of your website you will be submitted as an author with backlinks to your own publication.

What is guest blogging?

Now that you know how to post guest and how to post guest, the next question is what is guest post blogging?

It always depends on which website you publish your guest posts, each of them has different requirements depending on the publishing guidelines on.

However, in general, a guest post is a complete article that is similar to other posts on the website, and contains content related to the content of the website.

Guest blogging is not a low-cost or second-zone essay, but a high-quality publication by a fellow author on the same subject.

The better you write, the more you will make sure to write a good article, the more visitors will read that article and finally come to see the website that got credit for your guest post.

How to find a topic for guest blogging?

Typically, you want to post guests on other websites in your niche, for which the topics are very similar and in general your own articles can be posted on the guest website.

However, the best thing to do after finding a website that accepts guest posts is to ask the website owner to provide you with something related to the niche of your website.

That way, he or she will be able to give space to your creativity by writing content that engages your own audience, and will naturally include space on your website for any link that readers may want to click, as it will respectfully consider the table of contents.

For example, this person who owns a website for tourist services in Equatorial Guinea, asked me for ideas on the topic in a guest post on my site. Although some of my websites are for travel only, all of my websites may use guest posts that complement the content strategy, and allow him to include a link to his website somewhere without writing exclusively about his services, which would not be appropriate. On most of my websites.

How to write a good guest blog?

While there is no work in solutions in all cases, there are general guidelines that will work in most cases, mainly because there are no specific limitations to the host blog's very specific posting guidelines, usually a defined word count that resonates in the content.

10 tips on how to write a guest post:

• Enter 1000+ words to get a complete article,

• Write true evergreen content that has never been used in any language before,

• Include at least one main image with alternate text,

• Don't over-promote other products, but answer the issue instead,

• Include 1 link related to your site in the title of the article, ideally in at least 3 words in the first paragraph,

• Include 2+ links to other articles on the host website to show the relevance of the article,

• Include 1+ related links to third party authority sites to show subject research,

• Quote and submit all data, quotes and content from elsewhere,

• Include only public domain images with your own images or source links,

• Include your name, headshot, short bio and link to be properly credited to the publication.

• If you do not have self-created images for your articles, make sure you are using public domain images, so the host website will not have any issues with copyright.

 

Be sure to leave the original link below the image so that the publisher can download a higher resolution version and double check the license or credit the original manufacturer.

Ideally provide your guest posts in a Google Docs file stored in your Google Drive account for easy sharing and review - a Microsoft Word 7  Document, or Open Office Open document file may be fine but updating will be more complicated in case of issue.

Now that you know how to create an amazing guest post to promote your website and increase your SEO, it's time to find out where to publish your guest posts depending on the content of your content!