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Is MyBlogGuest Safe to Use After Being Penalized?

Posted by on March 2nd, 2017

There’s a lot of controversy about MyBlogGuest, with vehement protectors of opinions on both sides of the issue. Let’s take a look at what’s gone down, and where things stand today. What is MyBlogGuest? MyBlogGuest is an interesting content sharing network. Some people think of it as a content database, some as a private blog […]

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15 Ways Guest Posts Can Actually Hurt Your Rankings

Posted by on February 25th, 2017

Guest posting can help your site immensely, though as noted in a few other posts I’ve written, it’s a slow burn. No one guest post is going to skyrocket your rankings, but a sustained campaign of guest posting over time will build and compound into an engine of brand recognition and traffic generation. That said, […]

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How to Determine if a Guest Post Pitch is Spam or Not

Posted by on February 17th, 2017

It can be quite beneficial to accept guest posts on your site, but there’s a lot of risk involved in the process. If you end up publishing something that’s copied or stolen, it can cause a lot of trouble, and it can hurt your site rankings in the process. So how do you filter out […]

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How to Check the Size and Popularity of a Blog

Posted by on February 8th, 2017

One thing you often want to do when you’re guest posting is determine how popular your target blog actually is. We all know the industry giants, of course. You know a link from Neil Patel, from Moz, or from Forbes is going to be pretty valuable. What about the smaller sites, though? The ones that […]

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How Guest Blogging Affects Rankings and SEO

Posted by on January 31st, 2017

Writing guest posts is a high risk, high reward venture. It can be moderately valuable to your marketing presence, or it can be detrimental on a varying scale. A few bad guest posts aren’t going to destroy your site, but neither are a few good posts going to skyrocket you to fame. Guest blogging is […]

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15 Tips to Share Your Infographic Through Guest Posting

Posted by on January 21st, 2017

Infographics are a pretty great way to gain exposure, get your brand name out there and recognized, and showcase how good you are at both design and at the critical thinking necessary to produce something thought provoking with solid data to back it up. However, an infographic only goes as far as you’re able to […]

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Should You Pay to Have Your Guest Posts Published?

Posted by on January 15th, 2017

The question in the title here brings up a lot of interesting questions, financial and moral. It all comes down to your perspective, the value you assign to a guest post, and how much you care about the industry around you. There are three potential options for a financial transaction involving a guest post. You […]

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How Much Traffic Can I Expect from Guest Blogging?

Posted by on January 5th, 2017

Guest blogging is a difficult action to quantify. Usually, when discussing a marketing technique, we boil it down in terms of profit and return on investment. With guest blogging, both sides of the equation get a little muddy, and many of the benefits are hard to track. On the cost side, for example, how much […]

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How to Become a Guest Blogger at The Huffington Post

Posted by on January 2nd, 2017

The Huffington Post is one of the largest sites on the web today. They publish dozens of articles per day, and they have an interesting reputation. They’re leaning towards the liberal site of the political spectrum, and while they cover news and current events, they also have a significant amount of opinion publications. It’s a […]

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Can It Harm My Site to Accept a Guest Post Article?

Posted by on December 27th, 2016

One of the things I mentioned in this recent article is that a lot of bloggers are very hesitant to publish blog posts. They’re skeptical of the source, they’re picky about the content, and some don’t even want to deal with the potential SEO hassles. They’ve all heard stories about sites that published a ton […]

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