Hi Ave, I split your last post and started a new thread as it's a new topic, just in case you were wondering
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Back to the question in hand, blog posting.
“I hope this is legal and I don't see anything wrong with it as we bloggers guest blog each other anyway to get more views...”
Legal wise is a great point, assuming we are talking about the internet God - Google
Back in Jan 2014 Google decided it had had enough of bloggers abusing the system by generating backlinks by doing guest blogs. I did a post about it at the time -
Guest Blogging is dead
My track record back then was as an atrocious and lazy blogger, and in the end switched my blog off.
Fast forward to the end of 2015, and blogs seem to be back in vogue, and under recommendation we built a
new blog, but with strict criteria and it is all about quality, now low quality link dumping as in the bad old days.
So guest blogging isn't as dead as it was made out, but it is all about adding value and relevant quality content. As a marketing and business blog, Google might frown if we have a guest blog about the merits of dishwasher tablets written by the Dish Washer tablet shop.
So any posts are business and marketing relevant, proof read, and are aimed at being useful to encourage engagement, ie sharing, comments, conversations or links back to the site.
An example of one of our best articles is a Work Place Pension piece that has had a lot of shares. The one area we are struggling though and need to work on is actual interaction, ie comments on the blogs.
If you have a passion for writing, then the internet is the right place for you as it's all about quality content creation. We use
Rebecca (PayforPrecision) to keep our content on the proof reading straight and narrow.
If you wanted to offer content creation or copy services to members, then maybe get some more stuff on your own blog, so you can point members to your work. Maybe have a look at some of your content and add a few paragraphs, so your content becomes easier to read.
I really struggle with generating blog content so always looking for inspiration, but feel free to add any comments to ours!
I'd becareful about doing a lot of guest blogging, and even more careful what sites you are adding your name to, but done properly, there is still a market for guest blogging.
Forum wise, add as much content as you want
