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What are the Benefits of Guest posting?
I wouldn’t recommend using guest posting solely for link building, it’s too expensive. Instead try to locate those sites that can potentially drive referral traffic to your website. You can use a tool like SimilarWeb to find sites that are sending referral traffic to your competitors’ websites.
After evaluating your traffic flow, you need to filter out those websites that don’t accept guest posts or co-branded content. Some blogs aren’t interested in content from other authors, but eager to cooperate by creating stories together.
When it comes to guest posting, websites are always looking for a bigger fish to fry; they want to get top-notch experts or exclusive content. So unless you are that big and important, it makes sense to start small, reaching out to less buzz-creating blogs. Another reason here is that you need time to figure out what is the definition of exclusive content within your niche.
Here’s a couple of tips that should assist you in publishing your masterpiece:
Use Buzzsumo to analyze what kind of topics those brands/websites cover (simply type in a blog’s name and then download a generated list of topics). For example, you can get inspired by a recent update or a change of some sort (like new Google updates or mobile page requirements, and so on).
Again, in BuzzSumo, you can see the average length of a post on a specific website. This is something you need to keep on your radar. Otherwise, you’ll be forced to rewrite your article or receive a callous “no.”
Pay attention to the style of the articles on their blog. See if they prefer to use subtitles, captions, or short or long paragraphs. Do they require you to comply with a formal style guide, or are they into bold and lively statements made informally? All of these nuances make a difference and most posts get rejected because of uninformed authors.
Analyze top performing content of your researched websites. See what topical domain is the most prevalent to each site to create a mind map of your future content and maximize your success rate. The best way to do it is by running each site throuth Serpstat and download results from its Top Pages report.