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The Measurable Benefits Of Guest Posting

February 8, 2010 | Comments

This is a guest post by Andy Walton.

Many blogs accept guest posts for one very obvious reason – free, quality content is obviously appealing to their owners. And speaking as an author, it’s healthy for the ego to see your work on a high profile and well respected blog. But what are the quantifiable benefits and how can you measure them?

I will not offer any guidelines on how to write your guest post, as David has already written a full guest post checklist. Instead I’ll focus on how to monitor the results once published.

We’ll investigate the impact of a guest post I wrote on a medium size blog (an Alexa traffic rank of 30,000). The post for this experiment was related to our newly launched website, and aimed at increasing awareness. The results were measured one week after the post was published.

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll focus on 3 key areas: Click Here To Continue Reading »

4 Tactics To Increase Your Blog Traffic THIS WEEK

December 14, 2009 | Comments

Do you want more traffic to your blog?

Well, why wait? Don’t let grass grow under your feet. Here are some tips you can put to use THIS WEEK to bring more traffic to your blog.

Write a Guest Post.

Find at least one blog in your market, author a guest post and send it over.

You don’t have to ask first. Just do it. The worse that could happen is they say “no”, in which case you just send it to somebody else. Here are some tips on guest posting.

Increase Social Participation.

Go out and comment on other blogs.

If you do not already have a bunch of related blogs set up in your feed reader, do that right away. Then, start commenting when you have something to say. Do the same on Twitter and Facebook. You’ve got to be a part of the conversation to be noticed.

For this week, make a goal to post 20 meaningful comments or tweets per day. Or you could go crazy and apply Christian’s Power of 100.