![]() Traffic is NOT the holy grail of blogging. “Leaving” the big blog to go read guest author’s blog feels like a small act of betrayal to most casual readers. Very small % of readers, and after a sustained effort, over many posts, will actually become disloyal to the big blog and move over to yours. If you get yourself published on a big blog, most readers will assume that’s your best work -and it should be- so why should they go to your blog to read your “worst” work? Elephunkĭ’you now what the really big, stinky elephant in the room is? ![]() And THAT is what the rest of us should be doing. He publishes that same “guest post” on his blog. And largely not worth the effort.īesides, what Mitch is doing is not really guest posting anyways. Our options for getting out guest post out there are A LOT slimmer. Huffington Post is not available to the rest of us mere mortals. If only there was a way of “joining” the two comment systems. Sidenote: Of course, in this scenario Mitch has 2 sets of comments for the same post, and he’s expected to engage on both HuffPost and on his own blog. And since Mitch is publishing the same post on his blog immediately thereafter, there’s no loss of effort. So…there really is no downside for Mitch. Then he publishes that same “guest post” on his blog almost immediately. Well, no shit, Sherlock. I was talking to a friend -and mentor- Mitch Joel, and he told me he “guest posts” on Huffington Post. If you can post on a HUGE blog and reuse the same post for your own blog, then there really is no downside. That your guest post (which includes few backlinks) will somehow -by osmosis- improve your standing with Google.That your guest post will generate interest which will -fingers crossed- generate traffic for your blog.The last bullet is the best way to get traffic and backlinks, but it’s the least interesting.Įven then, it’s still slave labor to churn out guest post after guest post in hopes that you will: If you turn yourself into a human article spinner and publish essentially the same article on bunch of blogs and change the wording slightly, or approach the same topic from a slightly different angle.If you’re doing it just for the fun of it.If you are writing about a topic that doesn’t fit your blog.Guest blogging can work for some people some of the time. ![]() Baby in Bath Waterīut let’s not throw baby out with bath water. In return, they promise traffic back to your blog and few backlinks. They need new blood to keep pumping that content, otherwise their big blogs will go extinct. It serves their purpose.īig blogs need new content. While the advantage of posting frequently is obvious, it’s been VERY difficult to replicate for a small blogger pressed for time and resources.Īnd since publishing frequently is key to popularity, it’s no wonder that the myth of guest blogging as some viable method of gaining Attention has been popularized by those “in the know”. Popular blogs publish at least once a day, and very popular blogs publish 10-20 times a day. The obvious thing that big blogs have is the frequency of publication. One of the things we do at Triberr is look at successful blogs to figure out what is it that makes them successful? What is it that they have that small(er) blogs do not? What leverage are they using to get the eyeballs?Īnd then we build tools to make that same leverage available to the rest of us. Guest post by Dino Dogan, Founder of blogging platform Triberr.
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