MyBlogGuest hung out on Friday, March 29th for our March hangout.

Our participants for this hangout included: Phil Turner, Michael Cohn, Shannon Hutcheson, Min Min, Patricia Weber, and Deborah Anderson.

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

• Recap of Bios Discussion (from that last hangout).
• Direct-to-Blog and Moderation.
• MBG Handling of Bios That “Break Rules.”
• Challenges That Publishers Face. (Also, Michael talks about WP Edit Flow).
• Creative Solutions for Publishers Seeking Fresh Content.
• The MBG WP guest blogging Plugin and Benefits of Its Use.
• Future Features.

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Attention: Join our guest blogging contest here.

This week we are proud to welcome a featured guest of our chat – Don Sturgill, our chief Google+ community moderator.

It’s been over two months since we launched our G+ community. So, it’s time to think and talk over the ways to manage and develop it. Our mail goal is to make it useful! It’s one more FREE feature that we happily give away to our forum members and all those interested in guest blogging outside the forum.

Just to remind you a few free features for both blog owners and guest authors:

• 3 Ways to Get Free Content for Your Blog Using MyBlogGuest
• MyBlogGuest Free Features for the Guest *Author*

Now, let’s get to our topic and our guest! We asked Don about his experience with the forum, Google+ community, and guest blogging in general – and as expected got amazing answers!

Our featured guest @Roadturn is now added to our mentors' list of the official chat page: http://t.co/TnGaDToiIw #myblogguest

— Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) April 4, 2013

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Hope you guys are enjoying the spring wherever you are and whatever you do. Thank you all who published and promoted more and more posts via MyBlogGuest this month.

At our PUSH Thursday chats we feature only 10 posts, but we gladly help you promote dozens of them every day 🙂

• Ecocide – The Law of Mother Earth – We love topics like this: important subject + good structure + amazing images = great guest post. It’s also a controversial and provoking topic as the Rights of Mother Earth are often stand behind the human needs.

Wish Andrew would have linked to his Google+ presence. Social entrepreneurs are some of my favorite people. #myblogguest

— Don Sturgill (@Don_Sturgill) March 28, 2013

@myblogguest Glad to be here…feels like it has been forever lol #myblogguest

— Victoria (@funmom91) March 28, 2013

• 5 Proven FB Marketing Strategies That Work – I love it from the very first point: keep it human! That’s what we fight for in guest blogging as well. Can’t but mention the very creative approach to image choice for this post

This one raises a pertinent question for us all … appropriate linking. Facebook and Travel. Perfect match? #myblogguest

— Don Sturgill (@Don_Sturgill) March 28, 2013

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Attention: Join our guest blogging contest here.

The exciting thing about our platform is that we have to deal with a lot of various content (marketing) tactics: We are trying to help our authors to come up with more effective content strategies, we are strongly recommending them using images and media to make their articles easier placed and promoted, we are doing our best to help promote their guest posts as well as track the impact.

Whenever we see the opportunity, we build a tool or a resource for our community to use. This way, a few standalone tools you know have been born:

• MyBlogGuest Tracker that helps you monitor removed content, nofollowed links or evaluate the traffic from each guest post you place;
• Smart Photostock: The free resource of images to make your (guest) posts more sharable;
• Viral Content Buzz: The free tool to get some extra social media love for your

@myblogguest This is awesome, thanks. Loving the Smart Photostock. #MyBlogGuest

— TL Affiliates (@TLAffiliates) March 21, 2013

Now, we are not stopping there, and today we are introducing our collection of free social media tools:

Viral Content Buzz Labs! Read more »

All articles in MyBlogGuest Articles Gallery go through the duplicate content checker a few times: (1) when they first get published to the gallery, (2) then a few times regularly until one of the offers is accepted and the article goes to the future publisher.

This ensures that our users cannot (either accidentally or unknowingly) upload anything to the gallery which is not 100% unique content and we protect our publishers from using non-original content on their blogs (of course mistakes may still happen, so we encourage the publishers to run their own checks as well but we are doing our best!).

Worried about quotes and duplicate content? Find out how to avoid it on today's My Blog Guest chat. #myblogguest

— Don Sturgill (@Don_Sturgill) March 14, 2013

Now, these regular checks are a great thing but we keep struggling with one problem: Authors who want to quote! There are times when quotes are a necessary part of the article (think about “XX Smart Motivational Phrases” types of articles for example) and even if we force such an article to the gallery once as an exception, chances are it will still be hidden while one of the regular re-checks.

@myblogguest quotes would be something between a one-liner and re-blogging, eh? #myblogguest

— Deborah (@socialwebcafe) March 14, 2013

We tried hard to discourage our authors from quoting: Let’s face it, we don’t know how Google treats quotes that get re-published again and again. It’s hard to tell the machine the difference between quoting and copying (semi-duplicate content)!

How can spam rank? How can paid links still work? Who knows 🙂 RT @Roadturn: how can sites based on quotes rank on the SERP? #myblogguest

— Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) March 14, 2013

However in many cases, the authors claim they really need to quote… So here are a few ideas for you to quote without hitting any duplicate content filters: Read more »