Are you in favor of guest posting?

Just saw a good article about guest posting as well:

Death of the Guest Post - site-reference.com

Some interesting points, as this basically defends the guest post, but it seems a lot of effort and vetting!

Yeah, right! Thanks for sharing this. I will read it first and study every little detail being discussed in this article.

i am not in favor of guest posting. It will helps to increase number of backlinks but it will come to same IP so there will be more chance to penalized the website or the website will be down. So it is not advisable to improve backlinks and ranking

janny

Guest posts are supposed to be one of the genuine sources to gain backlinks to a website. Now, I'm sure not everyone would agree to this. But, guest posts help you get backlinks from niche sources and more importantly from within the content. These links have rare chances of getting removed, so as the page grows older it gains advantage which in turn is passed over to the links it is referring to.

You cannot expect others to pass a link to your website for no reason, you need to offer something in return, in this case genuine, useful and authentic content for someone else's domain. This makes both you and the webmaster accepting guest posts have a win-win situation. Nothing wrong in that imho.

Why i favor guest posting ?

- If you write for other blog then directly you maintain unique content for fast approval and Google love this content.
- If you have ecommerce website then guest posting is very useful to provide product information by other related blogs
- user read those article and lending on your website so indirectly you can reduce your bounce rate by getting relevant traffic.

& much more reason for Guest posting.

Yes , i am in favor of guest posting and this is the best way to promote websites.

Yes, you are right it is beneficial to the website in which we are posting not fro our website. So, i am not in favor of guest posting.

Seeing your conflicting arguments, which is it then? for or against

Well if the post is good then why not. I am at the favor.

I am in favor of the guest posting. Guest posting actually give the readers a chance of getting acknowledge of the products and services the post is written about. Clearly it is a good source for getting some good and natural back links along with the handy traffic towards ones site.