MyBlogGuest Features

MyBlogGuest - started as a forum - has soon developed into something bigger. We have been adding features per the users' requests. Some of them turned really useful, some have not been really used so far but we are still constantly building more and fixing the existing ones (your feedback and input would be highly appreciated!)

1. Articles Gallery
2. Email Subscriptions
3. User Watchlist

Articles Gallery

Note: The Articles Gallery is free for all blog owners who need free exclusive content for their blogs. Only PRO members can upload articles there though.

Articles Gallery is the unique and the most useful feature we are really proud of. It allows authors to effortlessly find great blogs to publish their guest articles. For blog owners, it offers a database of unique quality content on any topic they can grab and publish and at their sites any time.

To add an article to the gallery, navigate to "My Articles" and click "Submit Article"

You will need to specify:

• The article title and description;
• The article category and tags.

Clicking "Publish" will send the article to the gallery.

The Article Gallery consists of the list of all uploaded articles. It can be filtered by category and searched by tag. The blog owner can see:

• The article title, description, category and tags;
• The article preview (first couple of paragraphs of the actual post);
• The number of words.
• The author's byline (with external links to his personal projects)

The blog owner can offer his blog for any article by clicking "Offer" link (it becomes visible once you hover over the article title). In the form he will be asked to specify the blog to use it for as well as the approximate time frame when he would like to publish the article:

If the author accepts the offer, the blog owner will be offered to copy the full HTML of the article. From now on, this article is removed from public gallery because each article can only be published once.

If the blog owner fails to publish the article as promised, an automated notice will be sent to both the author and the blogger (this is to remind them of the deal). After this notice is received the author can revert the post back to the gallery or wait for the update from the blog owner.

Another useful feature added to the Articles Gallery is the ability to send your articles directly to blog wp-admins for the owners to only push "Publish" button!

My Subscriptions

We have quite a few very flexible subscription options here to allow users to keep updated on what is going on at MyBlogGuest:

• You can get alerted of new replies with any forum THREAD;
• You can choose to get email alerts of new threads within CATEGORY (instantly or weekly);
• You can set email alerts for new articles in the ARTICLE GALLERY (within any category);
• You can subscribe to our free email course to better understand how this platform works;
• Finally you can subscribe to almost anything using RSS (rather than email).

To access and modify your current subscriptions, click SUBSCRIPTIONS in your main menu:

There you will be able to see the following sections:

1. TOPICS: Your current subscriptions by forum thread: by replying to any thread you automatically get subscribed to all new replies (you can also subscribe to any thread without replying: just click "Subscribe" to the top-right).

• The list of your active thread can be found and modified in this section;
• You can also filter the list by category:

2. CATEGORY SUBSCRIPTIONS: Your current subscriptions by category:

• You can subscribe to any category to be updated of all new blogs and THREADS within the topic of your interest.
• You can also subscribe to weekly digest of all new blogs, forum threads and articles within any category (premium feature only):

In this section you can control your category subscriptions:

3. ARTICLE GALLERY EMAIL ALERTS: You can set the platform to alert you via email of new articles in the gallery within your preferred category.

1. Click Articles gallery;
2. Select your category in menus;
3. Click "Subscribe" button to the right:

4. EMAIL COURSE

Here you can subscribe to our free 5-day email course allowing to better understand how the platform works and which features to check out:

RSS Subscriptions

If you don't want to receive email updates on everything or if you just prefer RSS, don't forget that we have very handy RSS subscription options for any forum thread, forum and even category.

This way you can subscribe using your preferred feed reader and see new offers each time you check your feeds (you'll need to be logged in to the forum).

RSS Subscription option for any forum THREAD: just enter any thread you want to receive updates for and notice a little feed icon to the top-right:

RSS Subscription option for any (sub)forum: Just enter a forum you want to track and notice the same feed icon to the top right. This is particularly handy for tracking all offers with "Looking for guests" and "Looking for blogs" forums:

RSS Subscription option for any (sub)forum CATEGORY: If you want to monitor all new threads / offers only within a specific category, you can do that too! Just filter the threads by category and use that feed link to subscribe:

As an example, here's how "Food" category feed looks like (As you can see, there's quite enough information for you to even don't have to click through to an offer if it looks not interesting. You can save time by checking your feeds regularly and only come if you like the opportunity!):

Watchlist

This feature should be appreciated by active guest bloggers. It is meant to help you organize the requests and connections you make.

Here's an example.

Let's say you have contacted a member and arranged a guest post. You have emailed a guest post to a person but want to remember who you sent the post (for example, not to forget to follow-up on the status).

So you navigate to that user's profile and click a tiny dark-blue icon next to it. In the form you set up:

• The alert type (which in our case is "A post submitted / Pending")
• Keywords (for example, the post topics)
• Alert date (you will receive an in-forum and or email alert when you specify)

Now, once the specified date is due, you will see the following alert (as well as an email alert depending on your settings):

All the connections you watch will be stored in your WATCHLIST and accessed online (you can search through your contacts based on the keywords you used when adding them):

If you would like to suggest more features to make MyBlogGuest better, please do so by email me at seosmarty @ gmail.com (please remove spaces)