So, you have decided to dabble in accepting guest blogging. Perhaps you have accepted posts, but have been only accepting the articles via email and posting them yourself.
STOP!
You are making more work for yourself.
Guest blogging is like regular blogging… it should not be a chore. You should be accepting posts, reviewing, and publishing, so streamline your work.
Here are ways to prepare your site for guest bloggers:
- Create a page just for Guest Writing. It can be “Guest Blog Here”, “Guest Write Here”, “Submit Your Article”, or whatever. That page needs to have your requirements and how a person can submit their post.
- Secure Your WordPress Site. You are opening your site to people. Make sure to try to keep your WordPress installation up-to-date and make sure you keep an eye on who registers on your site.
- Install the Role Manager Plugin for WordPress… that is, if you are using WordPress. You will be able to specify exactly what capabilities your guest bloggers will be allowed to do on your site.
- Create an Author Box for your posts. Forget bylines when the author box can be filled out by your guest bloggers filling out their WordPress user information. This is where they can promote their own sites or businesses they work for.
- Create an Author Page for your guest bloggers. If you have a few regular guest bloggers, this is a nice page for your guest bloggers to bring back to their own site to promote.
- Promote that your site is open. It might be once a week you have to mention it, but it is necessary. People need reminding and while they may not jump for the chance immediately, they may sometime down the line.
While I would put in the list Adsense revenue sharing, I am going to leave that as optional as that is more of a personal choice rather than something that is truly necessary.
What other resources should site owners use when preparing their site to accept guest bloggers?
I want to start some sort of blog to include guest blogging on. I love the idea of having multiple people posting on the same blog that all have something in common.
I just can’t think of any kind of theme to make a blog to include guest blogging into! Haha.
You really do not have to worry about the theme aspect… more the backend of the site with installing the Role manager plugin and allowing people to register.
There are plenty of tips to assist people in making their current theme allow an author box to.
Bookmarked, both on delicious and in my browser. I hadn't heard of the Role Manager plugin before this, and author pages are something I wish were given me when I was guest blogging myself.
Thank you for these reminders and the advice – wish more people had a plan when they had guest bloggers.
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It is also important to come up with a set of rules that guest bloggers should follow, like which topics are accepted, how many links may appear in the article, etc.
I really excited with these steps. Really, guest blogging is very useful method for the interaction with our potential readers. I believe a site should have space for the guest blogging and one should give a try to it. Thanks Blondish for sharing such useful stuff.