In this video and article, I will show you my top 5 tips on how to score a guest post on other people’s blog, or do a guest post blogging.

If you don’t know what it is, Guest post is when you post on someone else’s blog. This is amazingly helpful because that person who owns that blog, they already have a built in audience, they probably have thousands of people that follow them. So not only are you reaching those people, you are also getting a back link to your website which in itself is very powerful.

So what are the 5 tips? Let’s dive into these tips.

1. Do Research

The very important thing to do if you’re trying to do a guest post is to do research. What I highly recommend to do is find out what kind of niche blogs are out there or those that overlap with your niche. You can always consider checking out blogs that are probably not within the scope of your main eCommerce site but blogs that could probably relate. Try to use your imagination. Look into the sites that the people that are potentially your customers are checking into. You can also use the blogs from competitor research which is the last topic we have discussed. It will definitely be a great help so you don’t have to analyze everything on your own. By just looking into the sites that are linked to specific websites, you can know which blogs you can post into, and you can do your guest post blogging. Moreover, you can always use the power of Google. Try to do your research and look for blogs related to your niche and sometimes, you can discover a lot more.

2. Engage in Social and Comments

Pretty easy thing to do is to start a conversation with them. Why not send them an email or probably a tweet? It is also great to leave comment whenever they do a blog post. But overall, the key to this is to start the conversation and engage with them. Always remember that authors love to hear from their readers. Imagine yourself, you have a blog and you’re working really hard for it and someone appreciates it or by just even leaving a comment. Lastly, this may be hard because it will really take time, but you have to develop a relationship with the blogger or with an author.

3. Email Tips

Email is very important because eventually, you will surely email them. If you will ask someone to post in their blog or probably feature your stuff, you will be sending them emails.

So here are my email tips:
Good Subject Line
Ask Questions
Innclude a video
Keep it short

4. Create a Connection

If you will probably ask a friend to write a blog post for you, for sure they will, but if you get on with a stranger and ask them to write a blog post for you, they’re not gonna spend a lot of time writing for someone they don’t even know. And that’s how important human connection is. So if you comment on Facebook, you respond to their tweet, or comment on their blog posts, you have to realize that your goal is to create a connection with the author.

5. Top Tips

Here are my top tips for these:
Tell the journalist that you will share the article. A lot of people don’t do this but remember that the blogger or author, they want something out of this too. They’re hoping that by posting an article for you, they will get more traffic to their website. Also, you can give them sample topic ideas. This will arouse the blogger’s interest in posting an article for you. And on top of that, you can show them sample articles.
And the most important tip of all, is to keep on trying. Obviously, be respectful if they say no, but until they don’t say it, keep trying. Always come up with a different idea and offer it to them. Remember, nothing worth having comes easy.

 

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