Guest Blog Posts

[Alan Hope Copywriter]

Good Evening

I have a couple of E-commerce sites - one to do with over 50s life insurance and another is about bank accounts for bad credit.

I want to apply to some website owners in those fields of finance and insurance to do guest blog posts with a back link or two to my sites.

My question is about the strength of the Google page ranking of the websites that I should try to do posts on.I have identified 5 websites so far to approach. Their Google page rankings are: -

7,3,3,2 and 2

I presume the higher the page ranking the better but is it still worth trying to get guest posts on sites that are ranked 2 and 3 with back links to my sites? Both my sites have a zero Google page ranking.

Unfortunately, I could not afford to pay to do guest posts on a particular site so I am looking for ones that make no charge.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Good luck is all I have to say, there is a chance, but if you are not paying, then your content is going to have to be extremely good to be accepted on high value sites. and the approach is also very important. Why should they link to your sites? what is in it for them?
If you are going to go after this then you really need to research their site and find a topic not covered and offer to cover it? sell them the concept of the post.

 

[Ninja Commerce]

Hi Alan.

I think you're referring to the Google PageRank of these sites. Personally, when I am doing guest posting (and I do a lot of it) I try not to focus too much on PageRank or any other metrics because that's a really dangerous mentality to get into.

Firstly: A lot of people buy expired domains with page rank in the hopes of making some money by throwing up a simple website and exploiting the previous website's authority.

Additionally, the page rank we see is not updated as often as the true page rank that google has assigned a website, so you never know whether the pagerank that you see is accurate.

Even if you ignore the above, only getting links from high PR websites would look unnatural anyway...

Instead, focus on asking yourself three questions:

1: Is this a decent, useful, valuable website - does it contain worthwhile, well written and thoughtful content, or just fluff and page filler?

2: Would any of the readers of this website be likely to be interested in my website?

3: Are there any signs that this website has any readers, visitors and any amount of community?

Other than that, it is basically a numbers game. Reach out to websites, but take the time to do it thoughtfully and be personable.

Some will say no, some will want to charge you, but a few will be happy to accept guest posts as long as what you write actually delivers some value to their readers.

That's a very basic primer, but I hope it helps set you in the right direction.

 

[Alan Hope Copywriter]

Good Afternoon Think Traffic

Thank you so much for a very interesting response. I will take on board what you say.

Three weeks ago my two sites were only getting 10 to 15 visits per month (yes that is per month) albeit I had stopped doing blog posts since December 2012. However since the middle of September I have been writing a blog post for each site every 2 or 3 days and when i checked last night on Google Analytics I am now getting 46 and 51 visits per month with a big increase seen in the last few days. Perhaps I am heading in the right direction but feel that doing guest blog posts would help as well.

Regards

Alan

 

[JonathanSEO]

Good Afternoon Think Traffic

Thank you so much for a very interesting response. I will take on board what you say.

Three weeks ago my two sites were only getting 10 to 15 visits per month (yes that is per month) albeit I had stopped doing blog posts since December 2012. However since the middle of September I have been writing a blog post for each site every 2 or 3 days and when i checked last night on Google Analytics I am now getting 46 and 51 visits per month with a big increase seen in the last few days. Perhaps I am heading in the right direction but feel that doing guest blog posts would help as well.

Regards

Alan

What niche are your websites in?

50 visits per month is pretty bad either there is something wrong with them or you're in some crazy competitive sector.

 

[Alan Hope Copywriter]

The websites are in: --

Over 50s Life Insurance

and

Bank Accounts for Bad Credit

Regards

Alan

 

[open sesame]

You can't just go on PR, I wouldn't look at it full stop.

Install the SeoMoz tool bar on chrome and check the Da/Pa, if the DA is better than 35 it's worth looking into, I would then check an old post go back 3/6 months and see if the post has a good Pa maybe 30+. If it does then look at the social sharing usually I will look for about 10+ shares on average maybe even a few comments on average.

You could try signing up with myblogguest (I'm on it), a lot of the blogs on their are not great but you will find some very good blogs on their with the above activity mentioned.

If your looking for manual outreach then check out Neil patel's blog quick sprout lots on their about guest blogging and forming emails.

 

[MASSEY]

No money no honey

I am targeting bank accs for b*d cred

So you have no budget to pay for a link?

 

[JonathanSEO]

You are unlikely to be able to get any high quality guest blogs in those niches really without paying for them.

Although it depends what your site is offering? Are you an affiliate for banking companies or is this like an advice based finance site? The latter gives you a slightly better chance.

Swap links with Massey, you might get him off page 3

 

[JonathanSEO]

You can't just go on PR, I wouldn't look at it full stop.

Install the SeoMoz tool bar on chrome and check the Da/Pa, if the DA is better than 35 it's worth looking into, I would then check an old post go back 3/6 months and see if the post has a good Pa maybe 30+. If it does then look at the social sharing usually I will look for about 10+ shares on average maybe even a few comments on average.

You could try signing up with myblogguest (I'm on it), a lot of the blogs on their are not great but you will find some very good blogs on their with the above activity mentioned.

If your looking for manual outreach then check out Neil patel's blog quick sprout lots on their about guest blogging and forming emails.

To be honest I wouldn't use any metrics like that when assessing site quality. Just look to see if it's actual genuine. Has a social following, posts regularly around a focus topic, isn't selling blogroll links etc. The main thing to look for is does it clearly have editorial controls in place.

Seomoz has no concept of what a dodgy site is really, you can improve PA with just no follow blog comments and churn and burn sites still accrue decent metrics on their platform.

Of course depends what the goal of these sites is.. maybe any link is worth getting.

 

[Alan Hope Copywriter]

Thank you all for your comments.

Massey - unfortunately I don't have the resources to pay for links so I was going to approach a few finance/financial services website owners to see if I could write some quality content for them with a link or two to my own sites (obviously). May be the day will come when I can afford £75 or whatever for a link!!!

As I said at the start of this thread, I have identified some p2 and p3 ranked sites so I will start by "selling my wares" their.

Regards

Alan

 

[open sesame]

To be honest I wouldn't use any metrics like that when assessing site quality. Just look to see if it's actual genuine. Has a social following, posts regularly around a focus topic, isn't selling blogroll links etc. The main thing to look for is does it clearly have editorial controls in place.

Seomoz has no concept of what a dodgy site is really, you can improve PA with just no follow blog comments and churn and burn sites still accrue decent metrics on their platform.

Of course depends what the goal of these sites is.. maybe any link is worth getting.

uh John little bit of a contradiction here, please see your comments on the link supplied below. Here you state seomoz stats are pretty much useless and not worth considering but the link below actually indicates you believe in the stats as a way to value a link.

Your turn...

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=298040&page=2

 

[hollymaxted]

If you you don't want to pay for guest posting to increasing a traffic for website. you need to do work on content, it should be clear, concise and high quality.

 

[fisicx]

May be the day will come when I can afford £75 or whatever for a link!!!

Why can't you afford £75?

If you want to see your business grow then you need to invest. So go borrow some money and do some investing.

 

[amitaharij]

Good Evening

I have a couple of E-commerce sites - one to do with over 50s life insurance and another is about bank accounts for bad credit.

I want to apply to some website owners in those fields of finance and insurance to do guest blog posts with a back link or two to my sites.

My question is about the strength of the Google page ranking of the websites that I should try to do posts on.I have identified 5 websites so far to approach. Their Google page rankings are: -

7,3,3,2 and 2

I presume the higher the page ranking the better but is it still worth trying to get guest posts on sites that are ranked 2 and 3 with back links to my sites? Both my sites have a zero Google page ranking.

Unfortunately, I could not afford to pay to do guest posts on a particular site so I am looking for ones that make no charge.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

Hi,

Many websites are still accepting guest post for free. Search websites with keywords plus proper syntax, you can get N number of free websites to submit guest post with high page rank.

For Example:
Your Keyword "write for us"
Your Keyword "submit guest post"
Your Keyword "guest post"
Your Keyword "submit post"

Try out this way, Hop it helps to find good websites with high pagerank.

Thank you!

 

[JonathanSEO]

uh John little bit of a contradiction here, please see your comments on the link supplied below. Here you state seomoz stats are pretty much useless and not worth considering but the link below actually indicates you believe in the stats as a way to value a link.

Your turn...

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=298040&page=2

Nice way to spend your Sunday evening reading my old forum posts. Hope you got something out of them

This is what I said:

Ah they're completely independent of Google. Domain authority isn't a indicator of algorithm updates or where a website might rank.

Just their own metric that updates once a month. Not a bad indicator for assessing the value of a link but not the be all and end all.

Payday loans SERPS are all going to be low domain authority as they change week on week with newly registered sites.

I give answers specific to a posters questions. PA / DA might be useful to some people in trying to value a link ie they have actually built links before and understand what make a site a worthwhile link opportunity. Say they have 2 sites that are otherwise equal but one is DA 50 the other 40 then perhaps choosing the 50 one is the wise move.

Whereas in this scenario where the OP is clearly wanting to use just metrics to find decent links and has no background in linkbuilding they'd be the last thing I'd use as you'll get caught out.

I have a few DA 40+ sites, trust me you don't want a link from them

 

[open sesame]

Nice way to spend your Sunday evening reading my old forum posts. Hope you got something out of them

This is what I said:



I give answers specific to a posters questions. PA / DA might be useful to some people in trying to value a link ie they have actually built links before and understand what make a site a worthwhile link opportunity. Say they have 2 sites that are otherwise equal but one is DA 50 the other 40 then perhaps choosing the 50 one is the wise move.

Whereas in this scenario where the OP is clearly wanting to use just metrics to find decent links and has no background in linkbuilding they'd be the last thing I'd use as you'll get caught out.

I have a few DA 40+ sites, trust me you don't want a link from them

Dude your the one averaging 5 posts a day, you must have loads of work on

Not going to argue with you though, I do find some of your posts interesting sometimes for the comical value but also as someone who knows about SEO.

I agree with your above statement and maybe the tool is to advanced for a 'newbie' to be selecting links against.

 

[worktops]

Hi Alan,

dont listen to the above. Get yourself on warriorforum or blackhatworld (dont worry about the name) and say your accepting guest posts. you'll be flooded!

Just make sure you check each post and dont publish anything thats junk or competes with an existing article.

good luck.

 

[JonathanSEO]

Hi Alan,

dont listen to the above. Get yourself on warriorforum or blackhatworld (dont worry about the name) and say your accepting guest posts. you'll be flooded!

Just make sure you check each post and dont publish anything thats junk or competes with an existing article.

good luck.

The OP is looking for legitimate sites to post his own guest posts on. Not looking for guest content.

 

[open sesame]

The OP is looking for legitimate sites to post his own guest posts on. Not looking for guest content.

Exactly what John just said.

But on the side, lets get this straight. Sign up to a forum which promotes and has members which are into black-hat SEO, and link out to the 'legit' members websites in exchange for content - and in the finance industry.

mmm... spun content, bad neighbourhoods and a shed load of redirects come to mind.

OWG Why have you endorsed that post?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Exactly what John just said.

But on the side, lets get this straight. Sign up to a forum which promotes and has members which are into black-hat SEO, and link out to the 'legit' members websites in exchange for content - and in the finance industry.

mmm... spun content, bad neighbourhoods and a shed load of redirects come to mind.

OWG Why have you endorsed that post?

it was a rogue click I meant to quote the post, but firefox crashed. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Alan Hope Copywriter]

Good Evening Everyone

I didn't intend to "cause such a stir". Some of the information/suggestions I understand but some I do not.

However, as I said last night, I think that I will approach two or three of the sites that I have identified already that accept guest posts and offer to write some quality content with a link or two back to my sites.

Thank you all for your time. As you can tell, I am a novice at this but keen to learn but I need to keep it simple. It is funny but I am a content writer and one of the subjects that I avoid applying to write about through Elance is anything to do with technology!!!!

I will no doubt be back with another question or two in due course.

Kind Regards

Alan

 

[open sesame]

it was a rogue click I meant to quote the post, but firefox crashed. Thanks for pointing it out.

No worries, I did so because I thought it must have been a mistake.

@Alan

You haven't caused a stir, this is the usual banter that goes on in technology forums. Its all harmless.

Good luck with your guest posts and don't be disheartened if those 3 don't reply, in all seriousness once you have a good email pitch it is a numbers game. If you sent out 10 emails and 1 converted into a guest post, in my eyes that's good.

 

[OldWelshGuy]

The trick is the wording of it all, get the wording right and you have cracked it.

 

[Alby10]

When it comes to guest posts, relevancy is the most important element in reality. In terms of quality of site to guest post on, although some have said metrics such as SEOMoz are not the way to go, i would disagree. The reason being that when looking for relevant sites, metrics are really one of the only things that can be used to assess a sites viability. Yes, you can check previous posts, link profiles etc, but the DA ( domain authority ) of a site, is calculated using various factors including links, social media metrics etc. Although as indicated not ideal, its better than nothing.

 

[robertjames123]

Good Evening

I have a couple of E-commerce sites - one to do with over 50s life insurance and another is about bank accounts for bad credit.

I want to apply to some website owners in those fields of finance and insurance to do guest blog posts with a back link or two to my sites.

My question is about the strength of the Google page ranking of the websites that I should try to do posts on.I have identified 5 websites so far to approach. Their Google page rankings are: -

7,3,3,2 and 2

I presume the higher the page ranking the better but is it still worth trying to get guest posts on sites that are ranked 2 and 3 with back links to my sites? Both my sites have a zero Google page ranking.

Unfortunately, I could not afford to pay to do guest posts on a particular site so I am looking for ones that make no charge.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

As you said that you could not afford to pay to do guest post on a particular sites and want to post only guest blogging sites then you content should be relevant, high quality, unique and fresh.