This is a guest post by Ryan Biddulph. He shares smart blogging tips at Blogging From Paradise.
Bloggers often scramble to publish their next guest post.
I am all for being prolific.
But before you submit your next guest post do you intend to:
- improve the domain authority of the blog?
- link out to reputable sources and link in to rich blog posts?
- increase the reputation of the blog through your content and links?
Admittedly, I have not always kept the concept of boosting blog credibility in mind for my guest posting campaign. But honestly owning this oversight goaded me to begin guest blogging with increasing the blog DA through content but more importantly, linking to high DA, authority blogs in the niche. I hate to say anything is easy in blogging but spending 10-20 seconds to:
- Google a search term
- pick a blog post from an authority blogger in your niche
- copying and pasting the link as an outbound reference via your guest post
is easy.
However, your intent needs to be clear in wishing to improve the DA, credibility and overall trust factor on a blog through which you guest post.
Helping Other Bloggers Succeed Helps You Succeed
Moss Clement has published at least 2 guest posts on Blogging From Paradise that have ranked on page 1 of Google:
Top 6 Blog Mistakes for Online Business
5 Powerful Steps that Will Help You Build a Loyal Blogging Community
His blogging success is not difficult to understand. Moss goes above and beyond to publish detailed posts both on his blog and through guest blogging opportunities fulfilled for other bloggers. He helps fellow bloggers and readers generously to experience blogging success. He helps me. I help him. I help Cori. Cori helps me. None of us help each other with heavy expectations, harsh demands or strong attachment to outcomes. We each know that being helpful:
- feels good
- seems fun
- eventually leads to blogging success even if we are not expecting any specific outcome
Never have I felt any of my blogging buddies need or demand anything from me. My blogging friends help me generously and genuinely. I happily help them as best I can based on our harmonious relationship.
At the very least, submit guest posts with an intent to preserve the credibility, domain authority and overall trust factor aligned with the blog. Link out to trusted, relevant blog posts. Link in to valuable blog posts. If you really want to increase the depth and number of your blogging friendships hold an intent to improve the credibility, domain authority and overall trust factor aligned with any blog through which you guest post.
Bloggers deeply appreciate guest bloggers who do an excellent job publishing helpful content. Even a short-form, 600-800 word blog post that hits the mark in solving a specific problem and sports links in and out to trusted content can help fortify blog credibility. Google loves reputable links out and links in. Readers enjoy clicking through to trusted resources both onsite and offsite. Spending a few moments to link properly for boosting credibility goes a long way for improving the user experience.
Guest blogging with an intent to improve blogs also rockets you higher in blogging circles. Successful bloggers feel when guest bloggers genuinely want to help these pros achieve more success based on the generosity and mindfulness of the guest blogger. Moss and Cori are two successful bloggers who are awesome examples to follow in this regard. I’d add Zac Johnson as another high profile blogger who embodies this concept because he routinely shared his platform for over 14 years to aid fellow bloggers and to promote their success. He helped me move higher in blogging circles by mentioning me on John Chow’s blog:
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Once again, his worldly success blossomed from his generous, genuine, helpful spirit to empower and accelerate the success of his fellow bloggers.
Being generous has its benefits!
Hi Cori, Ryan and Moss,
Yet another wonderful piece from Ryan.
Yes Ryan’s genorocity is no doubt the talk of the town, I mean especially among the bloggers. Like you, I too enjoyed the sweet fellowship of Ryan in guest posts blogging on my sites. Moss too a contributor to my space.
Thanks to all for the share and mentions. I landed here today via BizSugar the I M platform wherein moss curated those. Thanks Moss.
Jaber a great rest of the week.
Keep sharing.
Best
~ Phil
Philip thank you so much for taking the time to read and comment. Ryan did a fabulous job with this post! Thankful too for Moss sharing this on BizSugar. I’ve been considering joining there too for awhile now so maybe I’ll see you there?
Hi Cori,
What a joy to be here again. 🙂
Thanks for the quick response, of course, the twins did a great job. 🙂
Yes, Join us at BizSugar it’s a wonderful place to join.
Talk soon.
Best
~ Phil
Hi Ryan,
Your generosity is beyond compare, and you said correctly. When you help others, the favor you provide returns to you in various ways, and blogging is no exception. The more value you give other bloggers, the more opportunities you will get, including valuable guest blogging opportunities on top blogs.
Thank you for sharing, Ryan, and thank you too, Cori, for publishing!
Hi Moss, great to see you here again! Ryan is definitely a blogger who stands out for his spirit of generosity that overflows in all that he does! You too Moss and it’s generous bloggers that do experience blogging success! I appreciate Ryan’s guest post contributions here which continue add value to the blog. Publishing them is my pleasure! As Ryan says in this post – our blogging friends help each other to succeed.
Hi Cori, you’re right about that. He has always advocated networking and freely helping others. That’s a fantastic way to build a blogging tribe.