Content Marketing and Guest Posting

How to Get Featured on USAToday’s Business Spotlight

Posted by James Parsons on June 20th, 2019

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’re no stranger to my specific guides for contributing to various sites. For examples: So You Want to Submit a Guest Post to Ad Age, Huh? The Ultimate Guide to Writing For The Washington Post 5 Steps to Submit Your First Blog Post to Gizmodo How […]

Links vs Citations: What’s The Difference Between the Two?

Posted by James Parsons on June 9th, 2019

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In the world of SEO, we often talk about links. Links are important, links drive the internet, links help you be found. Yet there’s another kind of reference, another way for people to find you and for your search presence to go up, that isn’t a link. Local SEO masters know all about it, but […]

The Benefits and Dangers of Guest Blogging Automation

Posted by James Parsons on June 7th, 2019

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Guest blogging is a highly beneficial strategy when performed properly, as many marketers can attest. Moreover, it’s fairly easy to scale, to a certain extent. It’s subject to the snowball effect; the more top-tier positioning you get, the more easily you can get more, and the better off you’ll be. Growth leads to growth. This […]

15 Methods to Promote Your Guest Post After Publishing

Posted by James Parsons on May 27th, 2019

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Guest blogging is a three phase process. The first phase is your research and pitching. The second phase is creating and getting your guest posts published. The third and final phase is promoting your guest post, and it’s often overlooked. Which is unfortunate, because the third phase is arguably the most important. Getting a post […]

When It Comes to Guest Posting, Never Ignore Quality

Posted by James Parsons on May 20th, 2019

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You’ve heard the beating of the drum for years now, no doubt. Content is King. Content Must Be High Quality. Quality is better than quantity. Over and over, it’s beaten into you, and you may have internalized it, or maybe not. With guest posting, I always consider quality to be even more important than in […]

The Best SEO and Guest Posting Companies Reviewed in 2019

Posted by James Parsons on May 3rd, 2019

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The world of web marketing is a fantastically complicated place, with thousands of companies all offering similar services and vying for your attention. They are, after all, marketing companies. They’re going to be all in your face trying to get your business, and they have a million different strategies to do it. Strategies they can […]

Pitchbox Review: Email Outreach and Guest Blogging Tool

Posted by James Parsons on April 29th, 2019

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If you’ve spent any time at all browsing different blogs while looking for tips and tools relating to outreach and guest posting, one tool you’ll see come up time and time again is Pitchbox. So what is it, and is it worth all the hype it gets, or is it just another over-hyped product for […]

SubmitShop Review: Features, Pricing, and Guest Post Quality

Posted by James Parsons on April 22nd, 2019

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Submitshop is a web marketing company. In their own words, in fact, they are “a search engine optimization submission, web promotion, internet marketing and ranking placement company.” Are they any good? Let’s find out. Who and What is SubmitShop? Submitshop is a generalized web marketing company with a lot of buzzwords in their profile. They […]

Review of Newswire: Does Their PR Distribution Work?

Posted by James Parsons on April 14th, 2019

The term “newswire” is an older term for what is usually called a news agency today. As with many archaic terms, it has been co-opted and turned into a brand name. Not just one, in fact, but many; thus a bit of confusion with this article. When you ask me if Newswire is a brand […]

Is It Getting Harder to Get Guest Posts Published?

Posted by James Parsons on April 5th, 2019

Now and then someone comes to me talking about guest posting, and they’re usually bemoaning how hard it is these days. Years ago, it was so easy to get a guest post published, even on high quality sites. These days, it seems so much harder. Is it, though? The Guest Post Apocalypse There have been […]