In my previous post, over 40 experts shared some great ideas for generating blog traffic. This article will discuss a tactic that was not mentioned. It is one of the most popular and effective tactics for generating website traffic and doing SEO at the same time. This tactic is guest posting or guest blogging, which is commonly used to promote websites, even sites that don’t have their own blogs.
Guest posting on other blogs is a topic of great controversy right now. For many years, guest posting on popular blogs has been a good way to get traffic to a website as well as get high quality links that help with SEO.
Guest posting was used heavily by top bloggers, but was also a good way for just about any business to get some exposure to their target audience. However, now that Google is cracking down on “spammy guest posting”, many website owners are confused about the rules and guidelines for guest posting and even whether or not they should do it.
In this post, we’ll cover the following topics: