- It would help if it explicitly stated at the top that it’s referring to when you’re guest blogging on another person’s site vs. someone else guest blogging on yours. This wasn’t clear to me until I got further down the post, since both can be used as part of a marketing strategy.

- As another commenter noted, in the “Link within a post” section, there’s a sentence that got broken somehow: “Try to provide a”

This technique is great for guest posts but be careful with SU

If you use a wordpress blog it is easy to exclude pages by ID number in the theme editor which is my preferred method. There are also plugins for those aren’t comfortable editing their theme or don’t mind slowing down their blog with extra plugins.

This page exclusion doesn’t have to be reserved for guest post landing pages either. I use it for internal search pages using the custom google search. I also used to use it for entrecard when i was involved with their program. It kept the widget out of site and out of mind, but provided an non indexed duplicate of my main posts page.

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You might also like to add that you should track the success of your guest article by appending Analytics tracking to your link.

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55578

She encouraged us to add a link back to our own site. As part of the preparation process for submitting the article, I created a landing page for Christine’s readers that included a link to the interview article I had mentioned. It worked well and I’m still getting hits on that page.

Anyways, thanks for the tips! ^_^

Thanks for the comments :)

@Derek, heaps of people use welcome posts for their blog – its essentially the same concept. After the initial burst of traffic, they may miss your post unless its specifically sent to that page. i’ve also heard of people who have been caught out by not knowing when their guest post is going up – and had to write a rash welcome, or edit a previous post.

@Kathy it did make a lot of sense to me – similar to social media landing pages. Though I wonder if there are any other landing pages people can come up with ;)

If any guys do test out this theory – make sure to report on its success :) This was the first one I did and so far, I have an increase in comments and some guest post requests!

Thanks for the positive comments!

- Jade

I’m a seasoned amateur at blogging and my current project is a weight-loss and self-improvement blog that could definitely use further development. I’ll be subscribing to your site to see what other tips you share—from the posts I’ve looked at so far, it sure looks like you do your homework.

But it is definitely a great marketing strategy. It welcomes new visitors and gives them a reason to stay AND return.

Great advice.

“This is the best way to really capture the traffic is to provide a link from within the post. I link to it in both the byline and concluding text. Try to provide a…”

It makes sense really. A guest blog post is a form of marketing and landing pages are an essential part of ANY marketing campaign – nice catch on putting those two together!!!