How to Increase Your Blog’s Profile and Make More Money
Would you like to explode your blog’s traffic and exposure? Want to make a name for yourself in the Blogosphere? If your answer is yes to either of these questions, you should definitely consider guest posting. Guest posting is a fantastic method to establish yourself as an authority in a particular niche, and get loyal readers to your own blog.
Still not convinced?
Take a recent success story from a blogger you may be familiar with - Skellie
With over 2500 subscribers (1,050 in only three months), Skellie has quickly established herself as a key figure in the productivity, blogging, and make money online niche, largely due to her spectacular guest posts on several high profile blogs including ProBlogger. Here’s what she had to say on the matter:
The benefits of guest-posting shouldn’t be viewed in terms of traffic alone. If you write a guest-post on a blog with 30,000 daily visitors, only 300 might click back to your blog, but 30,000 people will have seen your name. The capacity for brand-building is just as valuable as the traffic. - Skellie
How’s that for convincing reasons to start guest posting?
Tips on Crafting the Perfect Guest Post
- Give More (Much More) Than You Take
- Be BOLD
- Tailor the Post to the Blog’s Audience
- Look For Spaces to be Filled
- Check Your Work for Spelling and Grammar
The idea of spending hours toiling on a post that’s going to make another blog look good doesn’t appeal to some bloggers. Now I’m not saying you have to spend hours, but you must put your heart and soul into the post. The reality is, if it’s not your best work you wont attract loyal readers. Furthermore, a sizzling guest post will almost 100% guarantee that your future guest posts will be accepted. The most important lessons to learn is that in guest posting, the more you put into a post, the more you get out of it.
It’s all in what you say. Readers don’t want the same old opinions. Be unique, fresh, and give it all you’ve got. Set the tone of the post from the very first line and you’ll have visitors reading untill the very end. If you bring a strong opinion, make sure you back it up with strong examples, and supporting content.
Choose a topic that will suit the blog’s readers, and is inline with the blog’s focus. Be sure that their audience will be interested in the topic and will benefit from the information you give them. Searching through the blog’s archives so you can experience firsthand the topics they write on, is a MUST before writing a guest post. The more useful, informative, or thought-provoking your post is, the more potential subscribers/readers/customers you will attain.
Is there a interesting topic that hasn’t been covered on the blog? Write a post on it! A post on a less covered (but still appealing) topic has a great chance of being a huge hit on the blog. You’ll be doing the readers a huge favor by writing it… and remember what I said about giving more than you take?
There’s nothing that makes me cringe more than reading a guest post with obvious spelling or grammar mistakes in it. It’s a perfect way to create a bad first impression, which is something you just can’t afford if you want to be successful. You’re going to go through all the work to craft the perfect guest post, so doesn’t it make sense to spend two minutes of your time to check your spelings? (No Pun Intended)
If followed correctly, these five tips should provide you with a fantastic recipe to getting started with guest posting. Writing for another blog might seem like a lot of work in the beginning, but will pay dividends in the end. An interesting post on an established blog like John Cow has a huge potential to become viral, as it already has a strong reader base. So what are you waiting for? Have a killer post idea? Register on John Cow. Increase your traffic, exposure, and establish yourself as an authority. You’ll never look back.
Hafiz Dhanani is a fourteen-year-old blogger who has a brand new blog - Make Money Blogging - where you will able to find can find tips, insights, and anything else related to blogging and making money online. If you enjoyed this post, make sure to subscribe to his RSS feed.
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Brand building is so important and you want to get your name or brand in front of as many eyeballs as possible.
Solid advice from a young blogger, nice work Hafiz.
It’s all about branding… I learned that from Donald Trump.
It is also beneficial to allow guest bloggers although that seems ironic.
That is a great article! I tried to pick the most important point but I think that the best way is just to make sure you are doing all of them!
Guest posting is so important.It can bring you some fresh readers and help you to make progress more quickly. I did’t realise this before since guest posting is not popular in our Chinese blogs. Thanks for you tips
yeah like giving out links and having contests by giving out good prizes definitely help with your blog’s growth
Thanks for provide the bloggers the opportunity to post as guest on your blog, thats pretty good.
There’s a spike on the numbers of guest posts on blogs that I visit nowadays. However, I do find some great reads which are tailored to what actually the usual blogger will write about.
Guest blogging = nothing if the guest post is not well-written.
This article is also a good example of what a good guest post is.
Excellent post!
Check your work for grammer … hmm i wonder if that really matters. Personally to me, i think that it doesn’t matter as long as the content is good. Who cares whether the sentence is a fragment.
I have noticed an increase in the number of guest posts recently. This is evidence of how effective it is in terms of increasing publicity for new / smaller blogs.
These are some great tips, and bottom line is… THEY WORK!
I have done this for some time and it helps not only my blogs but the blogs im posting on as they make more from advertisers as well.
Great guest blog post Hafiz. I definitely think that the more effort you put into a post, the more you get out of it!
I should probably read Skellie’s blog more. 1050 RSS readers in 3 months is pretty incredible.
I was greatly considering allowing a couple of guest posts due to a severe case of ‘writers block’…after reading this,I’m sold. I think as long as the potential guest is knowledgable and charismatic enough it’ll make for a good post.
BTW: I really like this blog design…the particular green used is one of my favorite colors.
Very good post and have a grate idea to expose out as a blogger. Thank you
Thanks everyone! I’m glad you liked the post. I really enjoyed writing it.
@Affiliate Confession:
1)Precisely. After a number of eyeballs, a brand/name becomes implanted in the brain.
2)1050 is pretty amazing, although not surprising with the kind of content she produces. Skellie has also gathered a huge amount of RSS subscribers for her new blog - Anywired.
@Chris Jacobson: There’s a great post about what bloggers can learn from Donald Trump, at John Chow dot Com.
@Wayne Liew: Yes, you’ve hit it bang on. “Guest blogging = nothing if the guest post is not well-written.” In fact, it can even have a negative effect.
Thanks to the rest of you for your kind words!
Hi, nice post and really inspiring. I specially like the part of being bold, really necessary nowadays.
John: I was wondering, if I wanna become a guest blogger, I just have to register, write the post, and then you check if it is worth for the main page?
I offered to guest host at John Cow when the email first went out but I received no reply to my offer. I guess that I am Not John Cow as well!
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That is a great article! I tried to pick the most important point but I think that the best way is just to make sure you are doing all of them!