Guest blogging

1. Find blogs in your niche that accept guest posts - a simple way of doing this is by searching for your niche keywords along with the terms guest post on

Google. Enter these blogs and their details into a spreadsheet so that you can track your submissions and live posting details.

2. Start at the bottom - do not attempt to submit guest posts for the most popular blogs on your shortlist at the onset. Instead, start with blogs that have a smaller readership. As you have more and more of your posts published, you will not only be more confident, but also have greater credibility.

3. Give it your best - guest posts often get step-motherly treatment from writers since they feel it is not going to be on their own blogs. Never make this mistake. Write as if it was the most important post you will ever write. A guest post is like an advertisement for you.

4. Keep your links balanced - one of the ways that guest posts pay off is through the links you put into your post and your bio. Avoid cluttering up your post with links back to your blog. Instead restrict it to just one or two links to your site and remember to throw in a couple of links to pages on your host’s blog. This will establish you as generous and unbiased.

5. Set up an incline - allow your blog to be the platform for other bloggers to do guest posts. By promoting others, you would have set up an incline, in a manner of speaking, and before you know it, instead of writing to blogs to do a guest post, you will have blogs inviting you to do posts for them.

With these best practices under your belt, you are now ready to become a guest blogger of repute. You must keep in mind that becoming a popular blogger is the result of diligence and perseverance and that it would be immature to expect results overnight.