Guest Post?
Do I need it for my blog?
Is it compulsory?
Yes, you need for your blog. Though it isn't compulsory, but it has many benefits.
In this content, I will tell you the reasons why you should start guest blogging on your blog.
We have a lot more to say, let's get started with what guest blogging really means.
What is Guest Blogging?
Guest Blogging has a simple definition.
From the word (Guest), you should get the meaning of it.
In simple words, guest blogging is a process of publishing of articles/blogs posts on your blog by different contributors or authors.
Why you should start guest blogging on your blog: Importance of Guest Blogging.
Guest Blogging is a very crucial thing every blogger should practice. It has a lot of benefits.
So every blogger should start guest blogging on their blog; Below I will mention the reasons why you should start guest blogging.
Here is the list of the benefits of starting guest blogging on your blog:
1: More Contents/BlogPosts.
Guest Bloggers will write contents for your blog. Let's assumed you have 100 guest bloggers, and then you will have 100 more blog posts on your blog. Some great contributors mostly write 1 or 2 guest posts on your every week. So great contributors gives you more content and shares
2: More traffic.
One of the major reasons why blogs aren't getting traffic is because of low contents. You have more contents, you have more traffic and SEO. Guest blogging is the 3rd biggest way to bring tons of traffic, 1st search engines and 2nd social media/social bookmarking.
The new fact is that; Guest Bloggers also share there written content on your blog with social media accounts.
3: Build Relationships
Accepting guest post on your blog also helps you build a solid relationship with your fellow bloggers and webmasters.
This relationship will give you lots of benefits like they link your article there blogs and they will regularly visit your site as well to read and replay comments.
It also can help you make lots of blogger friends which is really important and necessary.
4: Boost your social media followers/Subscribers.
Now you have more contents and more traffic, the next thing guest blogging will do is to boost your social media followers.
All you need to do is to place the social media follow button at the sidebar, footer or where people can see it.
Even subscriptions form, they will be glad to follow you.
They will be happy to follow you so as to get more content.
5: Improve your SEO
Some blogs you see ranking nowadays got ranked with Guest posts from contributors.
The more you write unique content, the search engine will love your blog.
SEO needs contents, and remember Guest blogging will give you more contents, It will also give you traffic and that will add SEO because when a blog is getting traffic, search engines will rank it higher.
6: More Earnings/revenue.
Guest blogging attracts much money.
Especially if your blog is getting traffic and doing well on search engines with solid followers.
People will surely come and you can charge an affordable amount.
Though, to submit guest posts on a big website like an entrepreneur, it is cost.
7:.Popularity.
When you keep getting more content, more traffic, more earnings, more followers your blog will surely be popular.
So you will keep getting contents, traffic, followers and your blog keep going.
8: Link Building.
Link Building is very crucial in SEO.
There are many ways to build links but currently, guest posting is the best way to build links without getting banned from search engines.
Search engines see other link building methods especially blog commenting as spam, but as for guest blogging, they still see it as the good source.
You can link to your Blog Posts that are related to the topic of the guest post, so you get links from the guest blog for your own blog which will improve your ranking.
Additional tips: How to get guest bloggers/guest posts.
Getting guest bloggers nowadays isn't easy. You will need many things.
Here are some tips to get guest bloggers faster:
- -Drive traffic to your blog.
- -Build your social media followers and subscribers.
- -Do SEO to get traffic from search engines
- -Create a page that contains everything about guest post. Then add to menu or footer.
Before you go
Guest blogging is a life-saver.
Though before you start getting bloggers who will do guest blogging, it takes a lot of time because other bloggers will only do a guest post on a blog that has fully grown i.e. getting traffic, ranking on search engines etc.
Have a nice time doing guest posting.