This is a guest post by Onibalusi Bamidele from YoungPrePro.com
Guest blogging is fast becoming one of the most popular and most effective ways to market an online business today.
If you visit one or more of your favorite blogs there is every probability you will find at least a guest post published in a week.
Guest blogging isn’t as easy as most people think, though. You need to write content that the blog owner and his readers can relate to, and you also need to ensure there is something in it for you.
I have been guest blogging for almost two years now, and within this period I have written almost 2,000 guest posts for myself and my clients, some of which have been published on some of the biggest blogs online.
In this article, I will be giving you a few tips to help you write guest posts that are always published.
1. Study the Blog You Want to Write for
The first step you should take before even coming up with the title of a guest post for any blog is to study the blog you want to write for first.
When I was still struggling to get my guest posts accepted by A-list bloggers I attempted submitting several guest posts to a particular A-list blog with no success.
Over 5 guest post submissions from me were rejected, and it was then that I noticed one blogger getting published repeatedly on the same blog. What I did then was simple, and as a result almost every single guest post I have submitted to that blog has been accepted (that’s over 6 guest posts).
What did I do? I took a look at the 3 most recent guest posts submitted to that A-list blog by the guest blogger I was talking about, and I noticed they are all list posts starting with “Top 10″.
Shortly after that, I wrote my next “top 10 list” guest post and it was published a few weeks after, leading to hundreds of visitors to my blog, while at the same time going viral on that blog. That moment changed my guest blogging career, and I now get published on A-list blogs anytime I wish.
In other words, the key to successful guest blogging is so simple. Take a look at the top 10 most recent guest posts on any blog you’re targeting. Try to detect a common theme those guest posts share, and use that to develop your next guest post.
2. Write from Your Heart
One of the best ways to get the best result from every article you write, including your guest posts, is by writing from your heart.
In most cases the readers of the blog you’re writing for won’t even bother to read your post past your introduction, and that is your opportunity to get them interested. Right from your introduction to every sentence you write, work on making sure your article is able to connect with your readers’ emotions.
Sometimes, this means you have to write from experience. Sometimes, it means you have to go a little personal and let them know you’re human too, and sometimes it means you should just listen to your heart and let your writing flow.
The blogger you’re writing for can easily spot an article written solely for the sake of getting traffic, but if the blogger feels your emotion in the article he/she will have a hard time rejecting it.
3. Have a Great Headline
This lesson is a very important lesson that took me so long to realize, and ever since realizing it my guest blogging career has never been the same.
In case you don’t know what I mean yet, a simple headline can mean the difference between your guest post being accepted or rejected, the quality of your content notwithstanding.
Make sure you spend enough time writing and perfecting your headline, and don’t just think any of those 1 minute headlines will do.
Spend a considerable amount of time writing and improving your headline, and apart from your guest post being accepted quickly, you will also increase the chances of it going viral and as a result lead to more results for you.
4. Submit a Unique Guest Post
To be sincere, it will be a little difficult to find entirely unique ideas for your guest posts, but that’s not what it is all about – some ideas you’re very familiar with are unique on another blog, and that can be your ticket to getting published repeatedly.
Take a look at the blog you’re planning to get published on, read the 20 most recent articles on the blog and try to see what they are talking about.
Now write your own guest post for at blog with the blog theme in mind, but at the same time make sure your points deviate from the other points you have been seeing on that blog.
You will be surprised at how much that can help you get published on any blog of your choice.
It Doesn’t End There
I know my tips might sound too simple, or too short, or ineffective…but believe me; you can’t be sure until you try.
My guest posts have been published on Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb, Problogger and DailyBlogTips, and the above tips are the tips that work for me…no sugarcoating or hiding anything.
Try them to see how they work, and hit me up if you have any questions!
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About Bamidele Onibalusi
awesome guest post Joey. Thanks. Ever since you talked about guest posting, I been researching and actually doing my own guest blogging. This post here really clears up alot of the questions I had. Thanks again.
glad this can help out. Also really happy you taking action and doing this.
This post is an example of a guest post correct?
Yes D. this is a perfect example of a guest blog post. Also a perfect example of how it should look like, and the quality of content.
Pretty good read. I read some of his other post you shared with us here. He’s pretty good. I like his blog as well. I’m a freelance writer my self and always wanted to make money writing.
Karen, Oni makes a pretty good living just by writing. Read his blog. Tons of great info on that. Also email me at Joey@incomepress.com. I might need your services.
Hey Joey do you still recommend myguestblog site? Just wondering since you had problems with them. Great post by the way.
Eric, you know me bro, I’m blunt and dead honest. I had problems with them which is why I will personally never again recommend them.
However, some of our readers have had success. Just because I had problems, it doesn’t mean you will to. i guess it’s one of those things where I’ll have to say, use at your own discretion.
Hey Joey,
Awesome info by onibalusi! I m just a newborn in this field and your blph is helping me a lot! Thanks Joey for all your great work. When is your next webinar?
Thanks brotha. The next webby, well to be honest I don’t know. I am thinking of doing 1 free webinar per month. I do them for my private members on a weekly basis. Anyway I will let ya know when the next one is.
Well written piece and informative. Really summarizes what needs to be done, which is very similar to the general steps you take to submit to magazines!
Thanks Louise!
I’m glad you enjoyed the post, and I can’t wait to see you start using the tips :)
Guest blogging or not, top 10 lists are possibly the best kind of posts for going viral.
agree, list posts are the best for guest posting. At least in my opinion. Because it gives the reader steps and actual tutorials to learn something.
Excellent post with simplistic rules of the trade, you might say. Big tip is checking out what other guest bloggers had written previously that was accepted on the site you are looking to guest blog for. Only thing missing out of this post is some ideas on who, or how do you determine who you might want to guest blog for, yourself, and what criteria do you use to determine that this guest blog, that you would be doing, would be as beneficial for you, as well as them . I think guest blogging is well worth the time, if you can authoritatively convey the information that you are guest blogging with, so the development of writing skills does become preeminent if you are to really pursue this.
Paul
I understand what you mean about not giving tips on accepting guest posts on your blog. This blog post is aimed towards getting your guest post published on other blogs.
Hope you’re not disappointed?
Regards,
Bamidele
Very good article Joey, As i feel like many here reading this article of yours that the guest blogger has to write something relating to what the post is about and not some fairy hairy comment like “lovely post” and expect that to be published on a high PR blog. The same goes for any comments being published.
I will definitely look up Omni’s course.
Hey Joe, being new to blogging I found this extremely helpful, as I’m sure you know when you are starting there is so much info out there you get confused but you did it an easy to follow way that allowed me to move forward, Get information on checking out what other guest bloggers had written previously that was accepted on the site you are looking to guest blog for, definitely a concept I will use. Look forward to more articles and info !