I have spent the past 5 1/2 hours on guest blog posting and can basically call myself an expert on the various blogs you can guest blog on and how to do it on each one.
Perhaps the most frustrating part of today was the various rules and credentials that each website required. Most of them were "booked up" and were not accepting any more guest posts. Others required 700 words when the blog we wanted to post has 796. Another did not want the name of our company/any form of advertising of our company whatsoever.
Although I understand that they do not want to just become a website for companies to put links to their websites on via blogs that might not have the best content, but that is not the case for our blog. While our blog has a goal of putting our name out there, it also is instructive and valuable material for small business owners to read. We would be returning the blogs the favor of posting credible and interesting material to their websites.
But, unfortunately, the blog hosts do not know this and we had to edit our blog to meet their needs. Most of the credible blogs I found didn't even accept blogs that have already been published on their creator's website (I guess they want new and exciting stuff...). Cutting the blog down to less than 700 words was not difficult - however editing it so that it does not mention our name anywhere and is not written in the first person proved to be more difficult and jumbled the original message a little.
All of this was time consuming and hard --- today took a lot of reading, writing, and patience but what I got out of it was experience and some great new blogs that I can read in order to learn more about everything.
Some of the websites include Kissmetrics, Men with Pens, Search Engine Examiner, Duct Tape Marketing, Moz.com, Search Engine Journal, E-Junkie.info, Firepole Marketing, and Traffic Generation Cafe.
These are all the better blogs of the ones I found (some of the blogging websites that claimed to know about internet marketing and brand building barely even knew how to brand their OWN business! It was terrifying. I would go through the Annual Haunted House in Grand Prairie or attend my sister's high school graduation with a count of 1,200 graduates than go through some of the blogs of these websites... let alone be in them! I guess these provided a good contrast from the others, showing what not to do..
Anyway, another great day of learning and hard work at Frozen Fire! So happy I'm staying an extra week!
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