So you know that I’m all about preaching the importance of blogger outreach, right? Well a part of that journey is sharing your specialty advice on other relevant blogs to help you grow your own audience. Now, you’ll have to read my eBook to learn how to create a lasting relationship with connected bloggers and, in turn, have them offer you a spotlight in front of their audience. But in the meantime, you want to be sharing your expertise with the world.
One of the best way to do that is to look for bloggers who are already in the market for people in their niche to share blogs on their website. There is no doubt that this will be the first way to start growing your audience, but it’s also a great way to start a portfolio of social proof that you do have a presence online and how you’ve been taking advantage of it.
Check out the following tips for finding those guest posting opportunities so you can get writing, sharing, and growing:
Google Alerts
Talk to people you know who guest post frequently
Tweet it out
Join a guest posting community
There are a few communities you can join organized to bring guest bloggers together with people looking for guest bloggers. The one that I receive emails from every week is Blogger Link Up. It’s a great digest of all the listings, including giveaway opportunities if you’re looking for that kind of thing. I also hear that My Blog Guest is a good community as well.
Check with your favorite blogs
If there is a blog that you frequently read and would like to contribute to, look for their guest posting guidelines. More than likely you can easily just send an email to the blog owner or editorial calendar manager with your post idea and find out if there is open opportunity.
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For guest posters who specialize in social media:
We are always looking for great guest posts here on Savvy Sexy Social. All posters must follow the guest guidelines and can send me their post idea via email to get started.
Also, another blog that I post to often is Tweetfind, and they are looking for guest contributors as well. Find out more on their latest blog post and contact Stevie for more details.
We’re looking for guest pages. You'll get a page (not just a c2). Not everyone will qualify. Writers need to own or be employed by certain types of sites including those who publish party ideas, entertainment tips, party planning ideas, party games, frugal living tips, or gift ideas. And of course you’d get a back link. Find out more information here: http://www.themed-party-ideas.com/become-a-contributor.html
What about content curation sites like paper.li? Have you ever use it? If you browse it by argument you'll find pages full of contact details of active opinion leaders that most probably have blogs and websites where you can ask to write an article.
This is awesome! I am still trying to get used to google plus and google alerts from your last video. I want to be a guest blogger but I am still working on producing better content. Guest posting is so important in building your audience and I need to get started on this. Thanks so much for the tips! I watch all your vids and enjoy it very much.
So glad to have you here, Sharlene! I'm glad I'm helping you out. It's so true that guest posting is a biggie! You definitely want to make sure your content is top notch when you're doing it so you're right to work harder at that. But don't wait too long because you'll be trying to perfect your writing for too long and you should start sharing your posts so you can get better as well as grow your brand. Hope to see you around the Comments Section more often!
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Really great suggestions that you offered here. I started just typing in Google my keyword I was looking to rank for in my blog and just copied and paste those URL's in a spread excel sheet and then went after two blogs each week. It was fun to network with more bloggers. I think I might try and use @20sb as well in the new year to network and get more guest posting opportunities.
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@Justicewordlaw What a great strategy! Thank you for sharing! I also love @20sb ! Need to get more involved over there as well. Thanks for the comment! Hope to see you here more often. :)
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@schmittastic Yeah, I haven't signed up for mine over there yet. But, things have been great and with the guest posting I did do landed me a contributor position for @under30ceo so it works if you stay consistent.
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Guest blogging is a great way of attracting a new readership to your blog. Nice tips, thanks for sharing.
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