Written a great guest post for another site. Can I post it on my own blog too?
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So I've written this beautiful guest post for a site who've quite frankly done a bad job of promoting it and I'm a little disappointed.
So I'm thinking:
a) I could send it around to some other publishers and see if they want it. What would be the duplicate content problems here if any?
b) Why not just publish it on my own site and promote it to other blogs and the world in the normal way.
c) Is this just wrong and if I say I'm going to write for someone then I write for them and if they make a mess of it that's my problem and I should be more selective about who I give my talents away to in the future.
Thanks in advance. I am fairly new to outreach and all the internet searching on this topic is returning stuff about 'allowing other people to post guest blogs on your site' which is not helpful. Rank Brain eh? Supposed to be smart. But it's really not.
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You are welcome Ed Challinor
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Thanks, this is a great strategy. I'm thinking chopping the article up and repurposing it for different audiences is the way forward.
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Yes thanks for this. It doesn't seem really honest and like the right thing to do. And I was kind of expecting people to be like, 'no don't worry, just do it nobody cares' - but it's clearly from what you say, not the right strategy under these circumstances. What happens if you make a piece of content for outreach and send it to two or more publishers and two of them like it and want to publish it? That's another tricky one i've found myself in. I thought just be honest and say both are interested and let them fight over the content. All I want is a link at the end of the day.
I'm writing about dental practice success but I'm doing it to improve my SEO position not to get clients or start an agency. So it's a funny one really. I just want more DA from links so I can rank locally and help my dentists get more patents.
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In my opinion ( base on my experience ) the best way to make it is to create an article for a blog with a very specific topic, and the create another article for your own blog with a very close topic.
Example you can create an article of "how to make money online" for your own blog and then create 10 articles of how to do it using, (then you make outreach)
- Youtube
- Dropshipping
- Udemy
- Affiliate
- Social Media
- Adsense
And link those articles to your blog post
Note: this is just an Idea hope it will help you.
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The general rule of thumb here, is don't do it. If you have written something for another blog, leave it there and move on to the next.
However, I would see no major problem if you wanted to re-purpose it. Change about 30% of the content and you could seed it out again.
Probably best not to make a habit of doing this anyway - My personal preference is to try and keep everything unique for a much cleaner read.
-Andy
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