These days bloggers write for other blogs and it’s beneficial both to the blogger and the publisher. This kind of blogging is called guess blogging. Guest blogging is a win-win proposition for both the writer and the publisher.
If you are a blogger and you want to guest blog on another blog the benefits you get are:
- As a guest blogger you get exposure in front of a complete new audience.
- You get to write on a different topic.
- More people come to know you as a blogger.
- If the host blog enjoys more traffic than your blog then some traffic pours down to your blog too and this may improve your RSS subscribers count.
- You get an incoming link with anchor text of your own choice.
- You can link to your other posts too if they are relevant to your current guest blogging post.
- You improve the quality of your writing because no matter how you write for your own blog, you have to write exceptionally well as a guest blogger.
Benefits for the publisher:
- When you invite or allow people guest blog on your blog you get some respite and you can either relax or do some other work.
- You bring in a new perspective.
- Your blog attains a sense of community and your readers get to read a fresh, sometimes totally different style.
Read Jarkko’s take on guest blogging. And Darren tells you how to get guest blogging assignments.
