How I used Guest Blogging For My Startup

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19 points·LeonW··4 comments

This is one of the best ways to build your site's authority/PageRank and drive visitors, especially when you are just starting out. The key is to link to your own sites at least a couple of times (to different pages each time).

Here's a post about how to build google queries to find guest post opportunities: http://ontolo.com/blog/automated-prospecting-guest-posting-o...

Tout or Buzzstream are good ways to manage all of the blog relationships you develop. Ideally, you need to have a funnel for guest post opps.

Hi there, thanks for your comment.

Absolutely, I think it is indeed the best way to both get visitors but also to create the extremely important relationships with bloggers.

Awesome, thanks for the post, will definitely check it out, never considered that way of finding guestpost opportunities.

Great, never heard of Tour or Buzzstream either.

Thanks for the great resources!

Great post - the SEO and traffic benefits alone can be huge, although there is a large time commitment involved. The more you put in, the more you'll get out.

I've just registered on one of the sites, up until now I've been just emailing people in the space. It is hard when you have something that is targeted towards a specific region, but regardless the SEO benefits are huge.

Yes, I completely agree, the SEO and traffic alone are reason enough to do it. The long run is something that is hard to consolidate yourself with as its hard to motivate yourself by always looking at the long run. Therefore seeing the shortterm benefits is often key.

Awesome, glad you gave one of the sites a go. Hope it works out for you. :)

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