How to Do Guest Blogging for SEO Purposes

1.  Determine your guest post domain. First, you need to identify your web domain’s niche topics. For example, if your website is about cars, you can post guest blogs explaining latest model cars, car brands, car accessories and so on. So you need to list out the keywords or content domain around which you need to pen your blogs.

2.  Research. Now that you have your list of topics, you need to search for popular blogs with relevance to your domain space and allow guest blogging. Consequently you will get a few relevant guest blogging sites.

3.  Do some Qualitative analysis. You need to determine the quality of the guest blogging sites you have collected with respect to their Google page rank, traffic status, activity status, member count and visibility in search engines.

4.  Do a Page rank analysis. Google rates websites based on their performance, backlinks and relevance. Then it ranks the website from 0 to 10, 10 being the highest page rank. You can check the page rank of the guest blogging site with tools like http://www.prchecker.info.

5.    Traffic analysis. Only if there is considerable traffic to the guest sites, you will be able to generate traffic to your website through your backlink. The traffic statistics for the guest post site can be determined using sites like www.compete.com.

6.  Determine its Activity status. Go for guest blogging sites that have recent activity and good readership. This can be determined by checking the date of the recent posts.

7.   Check its Member count. Select blogging sites that have good member counts. You may follow or share your posts to relevant members and create more visibility to your blog posts.

8.   Approach the blogs. After all the research you would have zeroed in one a few guest blogging sites. Firstly register with these sites by using the sign up form. This site offer a contact form or provides an email ID through which you can send your content and post review you may have your post published after moderation.

The first rule of being a good guest

When I guest post for someone else, I do the following:

·         Link to the post from my blog

·         Promote it on Twitter (several times)

·         Share it on Facebook

·         Thank the person

·         Stick around and respond to comments on the post

While not everyone does this, it’s not a bad idea. However, this is important: If you have to choose between getting people to guest post on your site or guest posting elsewhere, do the latter. It’s always better to get your name out into new communities.