Guest Blog Posts

As your audience gets bigger and your blog becomes more popular, 0:00 people may come to you for guest posts. 0:03 What this is, is they want your influence to go to their blog. 0:05 You see this happen a lot with the bigger new sites, 0:10 the bigger sites that focused on a certain topic. 0:13 They may come to you as a thought leader and say, 0:15 "Hey, would you write a guest post for my blog?" 0:17 What's awesome about this is sometimes it means you writing a whole post, 0:20 sometimes they pay you for it, sometimes they don't. 0:23 The best or the easy ones are where they say, "Hey can you give us a quote?" 0:26 because they are doing one of those type of post where-- 0:29 the top 10 marketing experts 0:31 or the top 5 things I wish I knew about web design, 0:34 or they want a quote from you. 0:37 The best part is these always link back to your site which helps you with SCO 0:39 and helps new people find you out and builds your audience. 0:43 So whenever somebody comes to you, especially in the beginning, 0:46 always say yes. 0:48 Yes, you're creating content over on somebody else's site rather than your own, 0:50 but in almost all cases, and make sure of this, there's a link back to your site 0:54 which helps across the board. 0:59 So, if somebody comes to you, say yes. 1:00 Down the road, perhaps they are going to come to you and you can charge money, 1:03 but in the beginning, do it for the exposure, do it for the links, 1:06 and do it for the new audience members you're going to get. 1:10