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18 Tips for Beginners to Start Guest Blogging

Posted by on December 12th, 2017

Guest blogging can be a complex marketing plan, but more importantly, it is fraught with old techniques and guides that often lead you astray. A lot of the older tips and tricks tend to lead you to strategies Google has essentially “outlawed” in the modern day. It’s important that you get started properly when you’re […]

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Are Guest Posts from Small Websites Still Valuable?

Posted by on November 30th, 2017

I’m going to cover this topic from both angles, so strap in folks, we have a lot to cover. If you’re the one guest posting on other sites, and the site you’re targeting is small, is it worthwhile? And, if you’re publishing guest posts, is it worth it to publish something from a small site? […]

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How to Get an Article Published on Fast Company for Free

Posted by on November 26th, 2017

Fast Company is an interesting magazine and website. Many of the larger business and technology websites that have magazines were, well, older and established magazines long before they became web properties. Fast Company, meanwhile, launched both their website and their magazine in 1995. Over the intervening 22 years, Fast Company has grown to a respectable […]

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What’s The Point of Taking Guest Blogging Certification Courses?

Posted by on November 17th, 2017

Guest blogging certifications are, well, not really a thing. That is, they exist, they’re sometimes actual courses you can take, but they aren’t on the same level as college courses. You won’t go to your local state university and enroll in Guest Blogging 401. There’s no accreditation system for guest blogging courses, or in fact […]

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Will My Site Get a Penalty From Guest Post Links?

Posted by on November 10th, 2017

We marketers have been trying to clean up the fallout for years after the bombshell Matt Cutts dropped on his blog. I’m sure you know the one; the Decay and Fall of Guest Blogging for SEO. I don’t even need to link it, you know right where it is. Published at the start of 2014, […]

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How to Use BuzzSumo to Get More Guest Posts Published

Posted by on November 4th, 2017

BuzzSumo is one of many tools on the web designed to help you with your marketing. In this case, it’s specifically a tool that analyzes posts by recording their social shares, along with a bunch of deeper detail for paying members. Since the tool can be pretty expensive, I’m going to focus on how you […]

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How to Use Ahrefs to Find Your Competitor’s Guest Posts

Posted by on October 30th, 2017

One trick that beginning marketers often overlook is blatant theft. Okay, so it’s not really a trick, it’s a marketing tactic, and it’s not really theft, it’s “competitive intelligence.” You’re not doing anything illegal. You’re not stealing trade secrets, you’re not hacking servers, and you’re not phishing employees. No, all you’re doing is monitoring publicly […]

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How to Publish a Guest Article on Buzzfeed.com

Posted by on October 23rd, 2017

Buzzfeed is an interesting site to try to write for. In my mind, I have the site divided up into two major sections: normal Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News. The reason for this divide is pretty clear. When you think of Buzzfeed, you generally think of the first herald of the clickbait apocalypse, the bringer of […]

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The Number One Mistake People Make When Guest Blogging

Posted by on October 16th, 2017

A lot of people have a lot of different ideas about what mistakes people are making with guest blogging. John Rampton talks about technical elements, like picking a site with the right kind of traffic, writing content that isn’t just self-aggrandizement, and being bad at pitching. Alex Craig takes a bigger picture and cautions you […]

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25 Reasons Why Guest Blogging Will Benefit You

Posted by on October 7th, 2017

A lot of the articles on this site revolve around the value you can get with specific guest blogging strategies, or about the specific techniques you can use to get a guest posting campaign rolling. With this post I’m going to take a bit of a step back and answer one simple question: Why should […]

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