Can I write guest blogs on competitor's blogs?

[conversiontactics]

I have been doing some guest blogging and its hard to find guest blogs opportunities. I have found some but they are direct competitors. Is it safe to write guest post? by the way the are not local competitors. Any suggestion please. thanks

[JaredMumford]

Absolutely its fine. If they are local you run the risk of your article helping your competitor to outrank you (see EGOL's hilarious example). But if the competitor is not local, its a relevant site and a great place for a blog post. Getting them to do publish it may not be so easy however...

[EGOL]

I have been doing some guest blogging and its hard to find guest blogs opportunities. I have found some but they are direct competitors. Is it safe to write guest post?

This is stepping into the alligator pond.....

One of my competitors offered me a really good article to post on my site.  I really liked the article.  My visitors really like it.  Very low bounce rate, it holds visitors about 5 minutes, ranks really well for lots of money keywords.....

Then he is really upset when that page on my site ranks above his site in lots of SERPs and is pulling thousands of visitors into my site.

He hasn't given me any more articles. 

[SEODinosaur]

Hi,

It all depends, first off majority of you competitors will not allow you to guest blog with no incentive. I would recommend finding similar niche type sites to guest blog on. If you are a local service and they do the same thing as you in a different location then they will more likely approve a guest blog post.

[CMC-SD]

Is your company a local one, like a pizza place or a shoe-repair business? If so, then people who are in your industry but not in your city are not actually competitors. If you're both national companies in direct competition, though, I find it hard to believe they'd accept your guest post.