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Most of our sites have been accepting guest posts for ages. We have many members who grew together with us (they joined as very new sites and are now getting traffic, rankings and activity), so your observations are wrong.

None of our oldest and most established bloggers has been devalued so far, so I don't see any point in getting suspicious.

New sites are more active, true, just because they are new. So they might be easier to notice.

We are not doing anything wrong and saying "after MBG sites are all devalued" is also wrong. Let's talk about that if/when it ever happens. We have worked hard to be Google-friendly. We are doing our best to convince the members of non-link-building priorities. And most of our users do get that.

I have said it many times: it's not about guest blogging - it's how you are using it. So don't blame the tactic if you see someone abusing it.

The high-quality guest blogging will survive: because it's based on great content.

The low-quality guest blogging is not worth it, so it is probably being devalued right now.

Hey there, I don't think there's another similar plugin (I may be wrong)... Please email me directly seosmarty AT gmail and we'll figure out which problems you have and how to fix them

It's running smoothly on my sites but it can be tricky under different server environments... so we'll figure that out!

Hey Marie, good plan on starting guest blogging! Good luck. Here's my way to handle this:

1. No more than 2 links in the byline. More looks somewhat greedy and doesn't make sense anyway.

2. I wouldn't guest blog on a PR N/A site but in all other cases PR doesn't matter. There are very new but very active sites: lots of tweets, likes and comments, lots of activity. Even if they are PR0 or PR1 they might be worth a show for two reasons: (1) They are likely to attract traffic (2) They are likely to have accumulated some considerable link power but it's not that visible yet using the tools. If there's activity on the blog, it's most likely to grow very fast! Besides, these new blogs are usually much easier to communicate with!

3. None that I have faced, but here's one recent comment from one of our users: it looks like his guest post has outranked content on his own domain, so I'd pay attention to what you are guest blogging it to avoid your own guest posts competing with your own pages in Google search.

Absolutely. Don't just share them to be indexed (they will be indexed quite quickly anyway because blogs are usually caught up in no time) - share them to get more traffic and exposure. You want your guest post to be a powerful trust signal - and an actively discussed and shared article will give you a larger boost.

To me, revenue sharing has been low-effective, so I don't think it will increase the value of incoming requests. Here's what I suggest:

• Make your requirements very strict (e.g. many people choose NOT to allow keyword-rich anchor text because that turns the "SEOs" who are only looking for a link off)
• If a person obviously doesn't read your guidelines prior to emailing you, simply ignore it (your time is valuable!)

Thus you'll see fewer low-quality requests and save your time as well

Hey Ryan, let's try to figure everything out!

1. We are welcome blogs on any platforms. However we only support DIRECT post (sending guest articles directly to blogs) for Wordpress. Don't worry, that's an optional feature. Just ignore it if you don't have a Wordpress blog. You can still make offers in the gallery (provided you have verified your blog)

2. "So, now, I just write content in the site-used article generator?"

Generator? Not sure what you mean, but just in case: we allow only well-written authentical and useful content.

• Here's how guest blogging generally works
• Here are other members' review for you to know how people use the platform

3. To start off, you may want to browse PRIVATE forum to read about the rules, quality standards, other members' experiences, etc. Just look it over

4. Now, feel free to write a good article and try submitting it to the gallery.

• Here's how the gallery works (video)
• Here are most essential steps to writing a good guest post

5. "so basically I want my posts on competitors sites and that will help out with backlinks and authority?"

There's no actual strict way to use guest blogging for links. If you don't want to write for competing sites, brainstorm topics in neighboring niches.

Lastly, if you need more help, examples of good guest articles, actual guest post ideas on your topics, etc - I can always be reached via email (I am going to email you right away as well)

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The best way I usually follow:

1. Create one masterpiece for your own site
2. Create a couple of more masterpieces based on the same research (you have already done to write the article on your site)
3. Link to your article and your blog from those external masterpieces (+get exposure)

It may sound like the article marketing, only it not one because it's in no way about spinning or rewriting. it's about re-focusing your research to write masterpieces.

I have given a few examples in my article on content re-focusing (we have also had a Twitter chat on that)

If you have overgrown My Blog Guest, I do recommend you try going straight to high-profile bloggers directly. MBG is good for a start as well as for scaling: you try your hand at guest blogging meeting people who are there exactly to receive guest articles. You can learn to meet other people's requirements, brainstorm interesting topics, etc. It's easier in terms of hearing back and getting your article placed.

The truth is, high-traffic blogs don't use platforms because they receive hundreds of guest post pitches weekly. They hardly need more. So if you want to go to the next level, use Marks' suggestions below and go to Google.

While it surely up to you, but with guest posting, I'd rather focus on the quality of the blogs than the number of unique ones. That said, recurring guest articles at SEOmoz or Mashable will work much better than dozens of unique guest posts on low-quality blogs.

That doesn't mean you should focus only on huge established blogs.

Here's what I do:

• Identify several large blogs in my niche and guest post their at least once a month
• At the same time, be in the constant search of new promising blogs and guest post there as well (to discover new communities and build more links)

Looks like my answer here is: do both

Let me try to be very clear. Please email if you have more questions (I got both of your emails, so feel free to use the email)

When guest blogging, are you promoting ONE site in your byline in each of the guest posts? There can be different pages from one site, but one and the same domain.

For example:

• Project name: SEOmoz
• Base domain: seomoz.org

Then when you decide to upload this page, for example: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/seomoz-secret-startup-success-rand-fishkins-tips/ - the tracker will automatically identify the backlink to track - http://www.seomoz.org/dp/seattle-startup-marketing - because it has seomoz.org base domain.

By providing the base domain, you make your own job easier because you don't have to manually provide the tool with the backlink to track!

In regards to mentioning you are going to link to your site, I like this quote a lot: http://www.seomoz.org/img/upload/graywolf-tweet.png

Hey! Sorry I am a bit too late on this one, but hopefully I can help!

I think I have been fair, 500 words of unqiue content with 1 anchor text link in the body, thats it.

Quite fair, but not exactly enough. The thing is, that's guest blogging and for bloggers to really want your content, you need to make it blog-friendly ("viral", in a way).

MyBlogGuest is no different from the whole Internet in this respect. Some topics always do well and get attention.

Usually these topics get picked in no time here:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Apple
• Google

So if you want to get quick offers, consider changing the focus towards the above topics. You can easily do that almost with any niche. For example, if you are into "loans":

• Free iPhone Apps to Quickly Calculate Your Loans

• HOW TO: Use Google Shortcuts to Estimate Your Loan

• etc

If you add some screenshots, CC-attributed images, etc, your articles will be picked in no time!

I hope that helps!

Some fluctuations (between PR 3 and PR 2 in your case) do not mean anything bad. That's just natural.

As for the traffic, you didn't mention how huge was the drop in traffic and position? Chances are, that's another normal fluctuation

Thanks for the mention, Kristy!

While I never recommend using only one method (the best way is to combine a few of them like searching Google, guest blogging for blogs you read daily and know best, etc), adding MyBlogGuest to the mix is highly efficient: besides offering multiple actual guest blogging opportunities, there's a huge community built there as well as plenty of way to learn more about guest blogging tactics, general rules and ethics, etc

While I do agree with what Casey says, I do cross-link my guest posts around the web in a most natural way. My guest articles are all in the same niche, so they are somehow cross-related, so what I do is to mention my guest articles now and then. That effort has been noticed by the way:

Guest blogging on Bloggingpro she links to another post she wrote on cleverdude.com. I’m sure she’ll get invited back.

Not that I'd turn that into strategy but why not if those links make perfect sense and build better relations with bloggers I guest post for?

As a PRO MyBlogGuest user, you already have access to the link tracker (that's the update you are getting if any of your guest posts get removed or any of your links gets deleted), so since you are using MBG, MBG tracker would be extra

We are working on the quality issue and haven't noticed that many poor-quality articles. I personally track ALL rejections (I get an email each time the publisher rejects the article) and I don't recall seeing that many rejections either... Could you please report any time you receive a poor article?

About the blog quality, we have had lots of discussions in Private area about that and haven't still come to any good solution. Making another level of membership where only high-quality articles can go and only high-quality blogs can enter sounds like no problem to me. But I've heard some serious concerns about that being a closed network Google might once consider as breaking the rules. Right now our doors are open to everyone, and yes, it is much more natural this way

I say flocking to low-quality guest blogging is a bad solution to Penguin update. Penguin was not primarily about banning blog networks. It was about banning over-optimized links and link schemes. So Google will use the same tactics here: too much anchor text, too easy to identify!

Diane, to make the forums less cluttered and more focused we only allow one active thread per site at a time. Most blogs fall under one of our very generic categories. If you need to try more categories, squeeze all you can from your currently active thread, then close it and create a new one in a different category. This way we also ensure each user doesn't have too many threads he/she is not able to keep up with

This helps us keep the forum integrity and usefulness!

Hey Bob, please feel free to PM me for details. I'll just lay out the basics:

How do we contact people on MyBlogGuest.com and ask them what they would like our person to write about?

You can use the free forum to post your request. There's a "Looking for blog" forum where you can start a new thread listing your topics. There is also "Looking for guest" forum where you can go from thread to thread applying to those opps that seem relevant to you.

Do I private message them or get their contact off their website? What do I say to not be ignored?

I'd suggest our system (PMs) because you can set up a follow-up reminder there. This way you'll be able to keep an eye on those who never got back.

Please watch all videos our users made for others to use the system. They are all user-generated and thus reflect the real user experience.

If you really want good content, pay cash money.

That's just looking in only one of many possible directions... One of guest posts placed on my site brought me a mention in NYTimes, another one brought me 10000 visits from SU (and still counting since then). Another one ranks top in Google = constant stream of free traffic.

I am advocate of guest blogging (the quality one) because it's what makes content social. It's like comments: I don't like blog posts that disable them because they take the social aspect of content marketing away.

Yes, paying for content is one of the ways to get it, but even paying for it you will get lotы of low-quality articles (especially you build up the base of reliable writers which takes time). It's also an investment many bloggers simply can't afford, so there's nothing groundbreaking in your advice, sorry, I do respect it...

I'd say we can only guess... There are so many variables here. Guest posts may go down the archive and thus the link value may be decreasing. Or possibly there are some flags - which would be not a smart idea though because I see dozens of blog who nofollow links with no intention (because of installing a new WP plugin. So honestly, I don't have the answer.