I’ve been blogging for a long time, and when I wrote my first guest post, I learned quite a bit. I’m going to share the lessons I learned from my first guest post, that hopefully will help you, when you’re blogging somewhere other than your own website.
5 Lessons I Learned From My First Guest Post
1 Create an awesome, but short and sweet author biography to share as a guest blogger.
You don’t need to write your resume, or life’s novel in your author bio. You may have some pretty awesome skills, but keep your author bio to the point.
2 Be observant of a website’s content before you submit your own guest post topics.
Some websites have a lot of blog posts, and if you’ve not done your homework, the topic you submit could be rejected. It’s a waste of your time, as well as the time of the website owner that you submitted that topic too. Additionally, make sure your topic actually fits with the website’s existing content. Submitting a topic that is unrelated to the website, just makes you look like a boob.
3 Don’t get upset if the website owner edits your work.
It is their website, and they want the article to look good, but also will do things like edit your grammar, add pictures, or even add links to it.
4 Expect to reply to comments.
If you really want to expand your reach and influence, you need to reply to comments on guest posts that you have written. Leaving the readers high and dry just makes you look like you don’t care about them.
5 Promote your guest post on social network websites.
The website owner of the guest blog that you were publish on, will definitely be promoting the article, but you have to also share it with your own fans and followers. It just makes sense. They did you a favor by exposing you to their community, so you need to do the same. Guest blogging can be a win-win situation for both the guest blogger, and the blog owner, if both are doing all they can to promote the article.
Hope these lessons help you when you guest blog.
Do you guest post at any websites? Are you doing all of the points listed in this article?
Awesome post……. your article is really informative. Guest blogging is one of the best way to create backlinks for our website. Really you have described everything in descriptive, simply yet effective too. You’ve done a great job with this.
Thanks to share this informative article.
Hey Nile,
Guest posting is the best way to be a member of the well-known community of the bloggers. It helps the writer to have good backlinks and traffic on their blog as well. Writing a guest post in some of the popular blogs, not only puts you in the spot light but also teach you how to communicate to the other bloggers via commenting and discussions.
Its our responsibility to share guest post on several social network platforms for better promotion and result. Eventually, thanks for sharing these beneficial facts regarding this subject.
With best wishes,
Amar kumar
Hello,
This is one of best for guest post and learned a lot from here and thanks a lot for sharing with us.
Regards
Rama Krishna
Hey Nile,
Thanks for your informative post. I think guest blogging is just not getting back links. Guest blogging is like your foot you left behind on other blogs and readers came to your blog by following those foot print.
Also guest blogging can build your confidence if you are a new blogger.
Lokender
Hi,
This is nice post for better for lesson from my first guest post and thank a lot for sharing
Regards
Rama Krishna