Google doesn’t like money having an influence on SEO. There’s not a lot they can do about it, of course; money means the ability to pay for the best tools and hire the best people, invest in better audits and larger infrastructures, and it gives large companies access to avenues others might not, like partnerships […]

If you’re looking to get into a campaign of guest posting, you might wonder how long it will take to see returns from it. You might also wonder just how valuable an individual link in a post might be. I’ve covered both of those topics before, and they’re complex enough that you should go read […]

For just about as long as guest blogging has been a viable technique for blog growth, people have been asking this one single question. Which is better: one good blog post, or a handful of mediocre posts? Should you focus on getting one excellent, top-tier guest post spot a month – or every few months […]

One of the hardest parts about a guest blogging campaign is locating sites that will be willing to publish guest posts and accept unsolicited pitches. Everyone can reach out to the big names, like HuffPo, but very few people have the chops to get that publication right off the bat. Often, you need to work […]

Guest posting, as you might have gathered from the rest of this blog, can be a lot of work. There’s a reason I’ve set up all of this to help you, after all. I wouldn’t do it if there wasn’t demand for it. As with any complicated process, there are people who are more than […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

For a long time, the primary driving force behind guest blogging was that ever-coveted link. Each time you wrote a post, you would cite a bunch of sources for your data, up to and including a link to your own website. This link would serve as an authoritative source of PageRank value, the so-called “link […]