Content Marketing and Guest Posting

The Best SEO and Guest Posting Companies Reviewed in 2019

Posted by James Parsons on May 3rd, 2019

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 […]

How to Submit a Guest Post to an .EDU Site

Posted by James Parsons on March 31st, 2019

When talking about backlinks, one concept that comes up fairly often is the idea that some links are better than others. This is true, of course, but there are a few pieces of misinformation floating around. Obviously, nofollowed links are much less valuable than followed links. Links from high quality, relevant sites are much better […]

So You Want to Submit a Guest Post to Ad Age, Huh?

Posted by James Parsons on March 24th, 2019

AdAge.com is an interesting site to me. For all that they are an old and venerated advertising and marketing website, they still have some signs of not quite knowing what they’re doing, or at least not really caring. For example, check out their Google snippet right now. This is what I see: Can you think […]

10 Search Footprints to Find Blogs Accepting Guest Posts

Posted by James Parsons on March 20th, 2019

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: one of the hardest parts of guest posting is simply finding sites that are willing to accept guest posts. Oh, sure, you can pitch any site so long as you can find the information for the relevant editor, but if that’s your plan, you’re going to […]

Can Reciprocal Guest Posting Hurt Your Rankings?

Posted by James Parsons on March 11th, 2019

Guest posting is a white hat technique with a few gray areas around the edges. It’s also a very old technique that, when used improperly, can cause issues with the current and future growth of your website. The Situation So here’s a situation. You run Site A. Someone else runs Site B. You want to […]

The Top 100 Marketing Blogs That Accept Guest Posts

Posted by James Parsons on March 4th, 2019

Guest posting is a complex task with long-term benefits, but it often requires a lot of up-front effort. It feels bad to spend hours or days on something only to barely see tangible results. You want a shortcut, and I don’t blame you. That’s why I made this site in the first place! One of […]