My first Guest post. Well, it's about quality!

[Eslam-yosef]

I've started my new blog two months ago. I thought about two things: quality and authority.

So, I started with high-quality content and let me tell you that based on my own experience, quality is the queen of all this. Now, my new blog reaches roughly 270 unique users each day that generate 811 daily page views (1% from Google, %0.3 from other search engines, 56% from social media, 28% from links, 14% direct, 0.7% spammy sites). Alexa Global: 1,238,771

Then I've started the author journey trying to write guest posts on high-quality blogs. I found that there're two options to do guest blogging. Writing an article medium-quality and keep the high-quality content for my blog. Or, providing a high-quality content under any post that comes with my name. I found a high-quality blog which may accept my article. So, I thought about the two options and then I decided to provide a very high-quality content and I did.

The message which I received about my article was so amazing. I had some grammars mistakes and they said literally: "We didn't mind as much doing the editing since you put so much effort into providing our readers with excellent content!"

I'm so happy really and based on this experience I recommend you to think about the authority more than the link. What will make you provide high-quality content under your name instead of keeping it only for your blog.

Have an experience with guest blogging? Why don't you share it with us to help others as well?

[Eslam-yosef]

I do agree with you Ross and based on my own experience, my first guest post helped my blog a lot as a new blog.

[Eslam-yosef]

I think it's about the main goal. I want to be a good author in general and you want to be a good author only in your blog. But in both the "Good author" still exist.

[Eslam-yosef]

Hey Andy, thank you so much.

Yes yes, Google send me only about 10/5/3 every day, other's comes from social media and mentions.

When I done writing my first guest post, I read about 30 posts on the blog to choose relevant links and I added about 10 internal links for them and only one link for me in the author box. But they gave me three relevant links as a gift.

[Eslam-yosef]

Thank you so much for your suggestion. I found a lot of options there and I will study theme to choose the best.

[RossM]

I think that to go back to what the op was saying he is trying to build an authoritative presence. If you already have that then what you are saying is definitely true. However, if you are just beginning a blog or a brand then going to the audience can be a much better approach than waiting for them to find you. I agree with you that if you want to keep an audience over time then you must be building that great original content into your own site, its just that getting out into the face of your audience in my opinion is a no brainer for a new blog or brand and I think it is still overlooked.

[EGOL]

I have been writing for about 40 years and have worked under a few different editors.  After all of that coaching, my writing can still be improved.  To help with that, I still submit my important writing to a paid editor who reviews it critically and suggests ways to improve clarity, emphasis, grammar, and punctuation.  Having a good editor improve an article can cost more than many publishers are willing to pay to have their articles written.  It all depends upon the quality that you hope to achieve.

If you have concerns about your writing a professional editor might help you improve.  I have used Scribendi academic editing and am happy with their work.

[TheWebMastercom]

Congrats.

Personally, I don't do guest blogging or even try to get links.  I can see what pages get links naturally on my site, and it is truly the best content that actually helps people (tutorials \ guides etc).  These are pages that can take a week to write.

I wouldn't want to put my best content on another blog when I can just get many 100's of visitors a week from just great article on my own site.

Just how many visitors would that good article have got if you had posted it to your own site?  And what benefit does the one link give you?

[Andy-Halliday]

Well done on getting some content published - its seems to be getting harder.

I am a big fan of Guest blogging, but not done for SEO purposes but for brand building.

If you are writing content where your potential customers are and they see your brand in a place they trust they are more likely to come and visit, or if they see you in the SERPs more likely to click on your link.

The link (if you get one), is just a second benefit - before the days of Google to get traffic to your site was to get links and mentions on other websites that was relevant to drive awareness of your site - I don't think anything has changed, just some people in the industry saw it as a way to cheat Google and was punished so its now seen as bad tatic - but if done correctly can drive some wonderful traffic to your site.

We do accept Guest post onto our blog, but this is down to the editors discretion but sometimes they can add some real value to our visitors - so it helps both parties.

[Eslam-yosef]

Thanks, EGOL.

I think my next step will be about improving my grammar skills. So, I make sure that there's nothing wrong at all.

I remember that I read an article about the first taste. In other words the first impression or the first contact. As you said it's really rare if you published a guest post. But, let's imagine I gave you one, Good content. I really take one-two days to write 500 words, what about 2000 as a good article?  Sometimes as what heppened the high-quality is enough. Some times it's not, maybe the grammar mistakes bothers you. So, the first taste in this case will be "not a good writer" and this will have an effect on the feture for me with you. While I'm just taking my first steps in a very long journey, the conection between me and what can I call masters or people who teach in blogging, writing and making content. This conection is very important for me as I learn from them, I want to show them that I've learned to be good enough for them not just a spammer or a horrible content creator. It's about there's two ways and I would like to take the good one even if it harder than the other one and need more effort. Let's say as I say always it's about **Respect. **I respect me, you, the industry and the reader as well. Just it.

Again thank you so much and have a good day.

[EGOL]

Congratulations.   I am glad that you are focused on quality.

I don't do guest blogging but I receive requests and proposed articles from lots of people.  It is really, really rare that I publish one because they are mostly horrible.  So if you got one accepted on a nice blog and received their compliments that is a big accomplishment.

Nice work!