May Guest Posts Roundup

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DSC_3494Guest blogging is incredibly inspiring for us! We keep creating new features and options for authors and bloggers of our community. We’ll talk more about these features in June Twitter chats starting from this week. But today please share these guest posts published via the forum back in May.

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1. How To Emulate Positive Female Role Models From TV (via health-talks.com): Though I’m not a fan of TV, reading this piece was a great pleasure for me. Laura Watson from bluebanana.com proves in her post that using stereotypes is far not always for worse, but can be for better as well.

business2. The 5-Minute MBA – How Business Works (via careerflux.com): Easy and interesting tips by Evan Thomas of incorporator.com.au definitely worth 5 minutes of your time in case you are in business. Read more »

Ann Smartys Open Letter to #MyBlogGuest Users re:Links

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MyBlogGuest open letterToday after one of our users had been very much offended because he had been asked to revise one of his articles, I got inspired to write this…

Listen, I know we are all frustrated that Google is fighting its own monster – links – and we have to suffer from that. But you still care about Google, right? So do we!

Here’s news for you: You are fighting the wrong guys here. We are on your side

At MyBlogGuest we started without editors. We thought publishers and authors would be able to sort this out themselves between each other. We thought the community would edit itself – as publishers are NEVER paid for publishing our glamorous articles, they are supposed to be picky right?

Wrong..

User-generated quality control never happened. We got flooded with low-quality articles that were scaring off good publishers by their overwhelming number (low quality is always easier to notice as it’s easy to produce!)

We’ve stepped in with our set of linking rules NOT because we wanted to somehow limit the freedom of our members but because we had to protect our name and keep our bloggers for YOU.

Some of you realize that: Read more »

May PUSH Thursday #MyBlogGuest

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This month we talked a lot about linking out. Today we have our traditional PUSH Thursday, but it is special! All posts we are featuring today were published via Elite Gallery. We are still testing it, but it already helps great articles find their great blog-homes.

We also launched a new feature recently that is called “Guest Article Requests”. This is how it works for authors and for blog owners. Next month we’ll talk about it more thoroughly, and now 10 guest posts for your to push!

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Join Us to Discuss Best Linking Practices at #MyBlogGuest Google Hangout on Friday (May 31)

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Upcoming (5/31/13) MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air MyBlogGuest.com teamAre you ready for our May 2013 MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air? It is coming up, Friday, May 31, 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 Linking (again)

We will be talking about linking. We covered it extensively in Twitter Chats, but this will be an opportunity to cover it face to face. We will also talk about the *why* for guidelines within MyBlogGuest, as it relates to Google’s rules and algorithms. This would be a great time to ask questions, where you need more clarification on what is allowed and what is not allowed, why, and what the best practices are. Read more »

Guest Blogging for Co-Citation: the Benefit of Linking out #MyBlogGuest

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Even though it seems to be a hot trend now, co-citation is not a new topic in web marketing world. @jimboykin blogged about co-citation back in 2006, for example; but for some reason it seems so hard to believe that few people care to think about it (“What? Giving someone free links???” – that’s the philosophy we are fighting with!).

Co-citation is about analyzing your link neighbors. If we talk about a guest blogging in particular, here’s how it looks:

Co-citation guest post

  • If Google sees trusted URLs next to your backlink, they use it as a good signal
  • On the other hand, if Google sees your site linking to trusted pages that help the user, they use it as a good signal
  • In other words, it benefits BOTH the author and the publisher; THEREFORE we’ve been encouraging linking out more than just to yourself for ages.

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Why Accepting Guest Posts is a Win: Success Story from Our Publisher

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success-storyWith lots of lower quality writers and link builders trying to ruin the concept of guest blogging (scaring away some bloggers), it is easy to fail to see the bigger picture: Guest blogging is the way to build contacts through great content.

You don’t disable comments simply because you get a lot of spam ones. Similarly, you don’t disallow guest posts simply because you got a couple of low quality pitches.

The benefits of guest blogging and accepting guest posts WAY outweigh the inconvenience of dealing with people who don’t get it: And one of our happy publishers has the proof today! Read more »

How to Build Contacts with Bloggers through Great Content + Spring #MyBlogGuest Contest Winners

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Today we are happy to announce our spring contest winners! And here they go:

? Most active publisher – Sabrina Sabino (sabrinasabino). Sabrina published 193 articles through our plugin and gets $500!

? Most active “interacter” – Kiesha Easley (keasley) gets $500 for replies to comments and interacts with the guest author in the post 5 Ways To Use Pinterest Besides Image Sharing Read more »

April Guest Posts Roundup

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a_pigeon_flock_at_their_old_pigeonryToday was the last day of our spring contest! Hold your breath… We are counting results, and will announce all the winners this Thursday at our weekly twitter chat.

At the meantime April is over, and we are happy to introduce you the roundup of 20 guest posts published last month.

technology 1. 5 Must Have Attributes To Land A Junior SEO Job (via andy-morley.co.uk): So, you seem to be in search for a junior SEO but hardly imagine what you should ask during the interview as no experience? Just keep in mind these tips by Stacey Cavanagh of listingthings.co.uk and everything will go on wheels!

business 2. Freelancer Tricks to Accurately Estimate Deadlines (via aboutfreelance.com): I bet I’m not the only one who thinks deadlines to be a kind of the sword of Damocles. Are you the one? These helpful tricks by Karol K. of writersincharge.com helped me a lot, maybe you should try as well? Read more »

Be Your Brand: 5 Tips To Help Your Brand Connect With Customers

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from-myblogguest-userIntro by  Ann: This article is written by MyBlogGuest user. It is courtesy of Elite Articles Gallery, our newest feature featuring highest-quality pre-moderated content!

“I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company.”

This was the catchphrase of the 1980s television commercial for Remington Electric Shavers. It featured the company owner, Victor Kiam, who proudly noted he bought the company after his wife gave him his first electric shaver as a gift.

At around the same time, Steve Jobs was thinking about how to get people interested in personal computers. One way was to make the product cool. Until then computers were viewed as industrial machines no individual would ever need to own. Jobs started wearing his “beatnik” outfit consisting of jeans and black turtleneck, and suddenly the machines he was selling seemed downright artsy. Read more »