Harnessing the Power of Guest Blog Posts - By: Major Sherry

Guest posting should be an integral part for any bloggers. Search engines are becoming more intelligent in recognizing quality user generated content from spun redistributed content. In the past many bloggers used to write one article, spin in, and blast to hundreds of auto approved blogs and article directories.

This kind of technique no longer works and can even get your site banned from major search engines such as Google. The whole idea of content is to share your knowledge and actually help users find what they are looking for. The last thing that search engine wants is to display garbage results that would not provide any value and drive user away from the search engine.

Guest blogging offers a unique way to share content. Major search engines such as Google love guest posts because they are manually approved by blog owners, add a lot of value to an already rich content resource, and enhance user experience.

Benefits of manual approval

Major search engines understand that when it comes to guest blogging, there is an actual blog owner on the other end who will review content before publishing it on his/her blog. This aspect highlights a major authority factors along with trust signals.

Blog owners do not want to publish spun or garbage content because they have a reputation to maintain. Many successful blog owners have thousands of readers who are hungry for new content. The last thing they want is to publish useless article that looks like it was generated by a robot.

Search engines understand this manual review process and regard guest blogging as a very trustworthy way to spread your content into the cyberspace. Manual approval also gives you credibility and status. If a successful blog owner published your article, this means that your article is credible and is worth notice. What can this mean for your business or a blog? Traffic!

Many blog owners are hungry for the content because many times it is extremely difficult to frequently generate new content. That is the reason why blog owners allow guest posts and in return permit couple of links. These links are extremely valuable because if the blog is very popular, your post will be seen by thousands if not tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, if the content it catchy and interesting people would want to learn more and click through the link in order to visit your site.

Added Value

Another reason that search engines love guest posts is because of relevancy and added value. Let’s say there is a blog about flowers. Let’s assume for a moment that this blog has a Page Rank of 5, has 700 pages of content related to flowers, and has over 10,000 readers that read this blog on the monthly basis.

You, on the other hand, are a small flower shop owner who just started your business six months ago with a brand new website. How can you as a fairly unknown flower shop become more popular and noticeable? The answer of course is guest posting. Let’s assume that you know a lot about roses and you wrote a great article about subject on how to choose roses so that they remain fresh for longer period of times.

Other flower related mega blogs who accept guest posts would be very interested in your content because it is very relevant and adds value to their readers. In return for the content, blog owner would allow you to place links to your site for those people who want to learn more about what you do and who you are.
As a result of published blog post, readers of the mega blog will learn more about caring for the roses and you will get traffic to your website. This is a win-win situation for everyone involved.

Enhancing user experience

Not a lot of people know this, but the main purpose of the search engines is actually to stop the search. That’s right STOP the search! It works like this – user puts a search query “how to make sure roses remain fresh”. Search engine delivers the result that is highly relevant to the search, in this case your article.

User reads your article and finds the answers that he/she is looking for and the search stops. User is very happy because found content was exactly what she was looking for. In addition to that search engine is very happy because it was able to deliver very relevant results. So next time when same user is looking for something, she will use the same search engine to find other things.

Furthermore, happy user will talk to her friends and family and let them know a great place to find information. That’s what search engines want – enhance user experience and to deliver relevant results. Guest posting accomplishes both.

Guest posting is a great way to publish relevant content that adds value and enhances user experience. Most importantly it establishes credibility and respect from major search engines.

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