*See how Google Authorship currently works on MyBlogGuest*:

• How does Google Authorship works on MyBlogGuest
• How to verify your Google Authorship on MyBlogGuest?
• What are the benefits of MyBloGuest Authorship Feature? (Verified authors will get more exposure in the Articles Gallery)

We have talked about Google Authorship earlier: We have mentioned how Google Author Rank may influence guest blogging. We even talked about creating a perfect author picture.

This month we are returning to that topic again as we are taking some serious steps to making #MyBlogGuest authorship-friendly. The new features are being tested now and we’ll talk about them next week; this week let’s refresh the concept and the process in our minds.

In today’s chat: Read more »

*Take part in our Twitter chat on TwChat =>MyBlogGuest Twitter chat*

MyBlogGuest Direct system is one of our oldest features. It was born even before the guest Articles Gallery and was then merged into it.

When we launched our WordPress plugin, we integrated Direct in it as well, so the blog owner won’t even have to go to MyBlogGuest to update the article status (as approved / rejected) and can do everything inside his blog.

The process works like this:

• You, as the blog owner, allow our system to send you articles to be saved as *drafts* in your WordPress dashboard.
• Whenever any article is sent your way, you have the ability to review it, publish or reject (we are always encouraging our users to only publish articles if they *love* them)

@myblogguest It is also one of the coolest features. Well, all of the #myblogguest features are cool and keep getting better!

— Deborah (@socialwebcafe) July 4, 2013

So this is essentially a two-step process but let us look into all the specifics: Read more »

MyBlogGuest hung out on Friday, June 28th for our June hangout.

• Ann Smarty provided an update on all things MBG, including a technology update.
• We reviewed the topic of linking, as well as SEO.
• Ann explained the value of the MBG Brand and why it is important to promote quality.
• Ann shared the process for the *New* Article Requests feature.
• Don provided an update on the elite articles gallery and how you, too, can become an elite author.

We created a takeaways version of the hangout in this short video:

You may also view the June 2013 MyBlogGuest Hangout Full Video. Read more »

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Announcement: tomorrow, Friday, June 28, 11am EDT we have our Google Plus hangout. We’ll be talking about MBG new features introduced publicly earlier this month. Get your questions ready, and join the discussion!

Last week we presented Articles Requests feature for authors. And a week earlier we talked about how Articles Requests work for publishers.

Our last month PUSH chat was special to us because we listed guest articles published via Elite Gallery.

Today we’ll feature some posts published via Articles Requests and Elite Gallery among others.

So, let’s start with 4 posts from Articles Requests:

•  Twitter Chat Etiquette – 8 Tips To Success – Great topic to start our and any twitter chat with. I think we can refer it at our chats as well if necessary.
• 5 Steps To A Successful Blog – A First-Time Blogger’s Business Plan – That’s somewhat promotional 🙂 But the topic is awesome! I love that small diagram at the bottom – quick to save & easy to use.

Read more »

Upcoming (6/28/13) MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air

Are you ready for our June 2013 MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air? It is coming up, Friday, June 28, 2013.

**MBG Hangout: 11am EDT Google+ Event Page

Google helps us out by providing the time in our own time zone. If you click on the event, above, you will see what time it is in YOUR time zone, based on your Internet Service Provider.

You may also manually check your time zone here.

MyBlogGuest New Features

We will be talking about some of the awesome new features at MyBlogGuest, including elite articles and article requests. We have chatted (and tweeted) about these topics in our weekly Twitter Chats during June. You can review some of the summaries, here: Read more »

Last week we presented Articles Requests feature for publishers (because we obviously need more blog owners to kick-start that feature for everyone else).

The section is going to be the highest-quality resource of targeted guest posts on the planet: All content in it goes through the dedicated editor @Roadturn who makes sure that

• (1) It has proper grammar and complies with our generic quality and linking policies and
• (2) It complies with personal guidelines of each blogger.

The good thing we are already getting good feedback from publishers:

Today we are officially introducing this feature to guest authors! Read more »

MyBlogGuest hung out on Friday, May 31st for our May hangout.

Our participants for this hangout included (in order of Google layout): Ann Smarty, Brooke McDonald, Don Sturgill, Erin Walsh, Gerald Weber, Helen Hoefele, Min Min, Phil Turner, Shannon Hutcheson, and Deborah Anderson.

We created a takeaways version of the hangout in this short video:

Read more »

*Feel free to follow + participate in our Twitter chat on TwChat =>MyBlogGuest Twitter chat – It may be a bit slower but we are almost done making it fly!*

First, a huge announcement: Our partner site @ViralContentBuz is running a cool contest: Win $1000 by adding your highest quality article and generating shares to it.

This spring we started a major quality update that included:

• Fighting with lower quality and over-SEOed content and clarifying our linking rules
• Letting the community filter out lower quality blogs by anonymous rating process
• Giving more exposure to high-quality content through Elite gallery (and new Elite plan which we are giving away for free to higher-quality authors who care about improving their guest posts)
• And finally “Articles Requests” feature which we are going to talk about this and next week…

Today we are talking about the feature for publishers, i.e. blog owners who are looking for the free high-quality content.

First, please take two minutes to view the video:

Read more »

*Follow and participate in our Twitter chat on TwChat =>MyBlogGuest Twitter chat*

A couple of months ago we started spring cleaning on #MyBlogGuest (which is still underway) and we heard a lot of negative feedback from our users which I responded to in my open letter.

While trying to fight lower-quality linky content in the gallery that puts good bloggers off AND puts you under Google penalty risk, we are moving forward with another plan: Trying to collaborate with our users closer.

That’s how the Elite plan test was born. Read more »