Thanks you…

I’ve not yet written or published any guest posts, but it is in the near future for me I hope and this is a good article that makes me think about this issue a bit more.

If you can add value by demonstrating something on your site that is relevant to the content on the blog you are posting on, then go ahead and link to it. But you shouldn’t just link to your site at the end of every comment for the sake of it.

I have been invited to do a guest post recently for a personal blog. I accepted it with all my heart and made a post about parenting college students. It helped a lot for my family tips blog.

I gave the same condition when I made guest posts for my blogging tips blog – linking to my blog and a bit of its description at the end of the post.

You’re right, Darren. Guest posts should not be self-promotion only. Readers are very smart to realize this. They are not after the guest blogger, they are after the content.

If they became curious who made it, then you’ll be the luckiest blogger in the world.

Thanks.

While a courtesy link to the author’s blog is always a nice gesture, all other links should be relevant to the subject at had and point to many sources.

IMHO, guest posts should be used sparringly though. Although many times they add value, just as many times, they can detract form the blog in question.

Cheers,
MT

Seems no one was brave enough to step up in his time of need, and as a new blogger myself I was also scared, but I stepped up and offered.

Your suggestions are very astute, and while I did not expect myself to blatantly advertise myself you’ve given me some food for thought…it’s not about me and it’s about the person’s whose blog I am on. Both you and Chris Brogan seem to be in sync on that one.

Thanks!

I gave the same condition when I made guest posts for my blogging tips blog – linking to my blog and a bit of its description at the end of the post.

You’re right, Darren. Guest posts should not be self-promotion only. Readers are very smart to realize this. They are not after the guest blogger, they are after the content.

If they became curious who made it, then you’ll be the luckiest blogger in the world.

Thanks.

Clearly crediting the author and providing a single link back to his/her site’s main page is quite sufficient. Again, guest blggers should be thankful that someone has chosen to publish their work and behave accordingly & gratiously.

By the way, Darren, I want to thank you again for publishing my Geoblogging – How to Geotag Your Blog article back in April. It was truly a thrill & honor to have been published on such a respected blog!

I was reading a guest post just recently where the author kept linking back to his site and because of this appeared more interested in what was in it for him.

As a result, I’m not too quick to go to the author’s website these days. He hurt rather than helped his “brand.”

I really dislike bloggers that just stuff their links everywhere in a guest post.

I’ve done a few guests posts in the last couple of months. One in particular was based on a problem I had recent experience with, so I told it from a first-hand point of view.

So, although the post was “all about me,” it was relayed in a way to teach others what I learned from a disastrous mistake (moving my blog from one platform to another).

In those cases, I think it’s okay for the poster to be front and center.

I think some are getting a little too hyped up over self-promotion online. Many of us blog and provide free content as a means to an end (eg, to sell ebooks, newsletter subscriptions, an affiliate product, etc.).

I don’t mind self promotion, as long as the person doing it doesn’t beat me over the head with it AND their content is useful.

Yuwanda

Even if this is your objective, a guest post should contribute to the substance of the existing debate.

Guest posts, to me, are about sharing brand new information to an audience who wouldn’t hear you otherwise. If those readers love what you write, they’ll go to your site (where you would have a link to at the bottom of the post, along with a little bit about yourself.) It’s that simple!

I gave the same condition when I made guest posts for my blogging tips blog – linking to my blog and a bit of its description at the end of the post.

You’re right, Darren. Guest posts should not be self-promotion only. Readers are very smart to realize this. They are not after the guest blogger, they are after the content.

If they became curious who made it, then you’ll be the luckiest blogger in the world.

Thanks.

Guest blogging is an opportunity to show of your writing skills and convey your idea.

Abusing guest blogging concept with unethical practices like unnecessary link and promoting your affiliate link will spoil the whole idea of Guest blogging

Now this post was not written for the purpose of being published elsewhere, so I was livid. If you’re going to use my content for your site, you better leave the posts as they are. I wrote the site owner a really nasty e-mail and he very quickly changed the links back to what they were supposed to be.

It’s amazing what some people will do for a little SEO.

If you can add value by demonstrating something on your site that is relevant to the content on the blog you are posting on, then go ahead and link to it. But you shouldn’t just link to your site at the end of every comment for the sake of it.

We often have guest posters and we link to them usually at the beginning and at the end.

We haven’t had a problem with our guest writers self linking – they have done a great job writing valuable content that adds to our site.