Guest posting is harder than it initially looks. If you are aiming to get a place on an influencer’s website, then let’s be real, it’s not an easy thing to achieve. Of course, a website that isn’t very useful or may even harm your site by providing a backlink is very easy to get into but not exactly desirable.
To make things easy for you, here we have come up with 10 things that will help you succeed in your guest posting ventures. You might as well take a look:
10 Tips To Succeed In Guest Posting:
1. The Purpose Of Guest Post:
Before making the jump, one must ask oneself about the purpose of guest blogging and how will it benefit them. People may have various things they want to achieve, but for the most part, people either want backlinks or exposure. You need to be clear on what you want.
2. The Right Blogs:
Finding the right places to do a guest post in is significant, and you should keep aside a little bit of time to research and shortlist. If you are just starting out, it’s best to stay away from big influencers and looks at what small but approachable influencers has to offer.
3. Individual Rules Of Posting:
Every blog has it’s unique rules and regulations that you must thoroughly follow if you want to appear on the site. Make sure to read the instructions through and thorough before making the pitch.
4. Understand The Site
Its recommended that you study the website where you have planned to pitch a guest post. That’s because the purpose of the guest post will be to serve both your site and theirs. And it’s important that both interests are met.
5. Offer Something Unique:
Next, you will need to think about what sort of post should be on the site but hasn’t been written. Come up with something so unique, and exciting that the influencer to which the site belongs won’t be able to turn down your offers.
6. Pitching:
Now follow the instructions on how to pitch that is available on the website. Like we said before different websites have different needs and it’s good to abide by that law, or your pitch will be ignored.
7. Mind The Bio:
After all that effort, it’s foolish to ignore the bio. You will need to write a smart bio and make sure that you convince people to click through and check out the link to your site or at least be interested in finding you.
8. Promote The Guest Post:
Even after they hit the publish button, your work is not over. Share and promote the post as much as you can.
9. Respond To Comments:
If the site you just guest posted is a popular one, you are bound to receive a comment, make sure to answer queries to the best of your abilities and thank people when they praise you. Interaction will further help your motive. Do not ignore this point.
10. Be In Touch:
Befriend the influencer, who knows what he/she can do to your business. You may be lucky enough to get him/her on-board as a mentor. Do not ignore the people with whom you have worked.
After following these instructions, tell us how many bloggers got back to you after you made them the pitch?
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