There’s one huge problem with any user-powered platform: quality. The reason is obvious, low-quality always comes in large amounts and it’s just easier to notice.

MyBlogGuest is an established platform: We are more than three years old and we can safely state that we have a well-formed environment inside that has balanced itself. Yet, we don’t want to think we are not ready to change even though a change is never easy. Let’s see what we have been doing to protect you and what we are planning to do now:

Security

To protect you from fake offers we’ve been:

• Verifying the ownership of all blogs which are being added to our system
• Banning offending domains (if the owners are reported for sneaky behavior like adding nofollow or removing the links. Luckily, thanks to our built-in backlink tracker we’ve been very fast to ban any offending behavior).

Speaking of "nofollow" on MBG guest posts… watch out for SEO WordPress plugins that "help" by adding "nofollow" to all links #myblogguest

— Deborah (@socialwebcafe) March 7, 2013

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MyBlogGuest hung out on Friday, February 22nd for our February hangouts. As in other months, we had two 45-minute hangouts, at different times, to make it more convenient for different time zones.

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

We created a takeaways version of both hangouts in this short video here:

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Are you ready for our February 2013 MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air events?  They are tomorrow, Friday, February 22, 2013.

Hangout #1: 11am EST / 4pm GMT Google+ Event Page

Hangout #2: 4pm EST / 9pm GMT Google+ Event Page

Please note that they will last 45 minutes each.

Please check your time zone here.

Those Author Bios

We have been chatting a lot about author bios during our Twitter Chats and will be continuing that discussion on the hangout.  Do you have an awesome author bio you’d like to share?  By all means, come share your bio (or your friend’s bio).

The Google+ hangouts are recorded and we will snap a nice picture of you from the vid, for the intro. If you prefer not to be included, please let us know during the hangout. Read more »

We are well aware of the fact that we have to deal with quite complicated concept and tools. There are too many questions we are trying to answer at MyBlogGuest: How to make the community useful? How to balance quality and effort? How to explain what’s quality? etc

We have been working hard to create various free guest blogging tools as well as various ways to make our common task (i.e. achieving mutual benefit) easier to grasp. While struggling with that, we have come up with a few infographics and cheatsheets that can make guest authors’ and bloggers’ lives much easier:

• Use the infographics as reference for yourself;
• Use the infographics to explain the concept to your clients or boss;
• Use the infographics to give away to your team members or freelancers for them to better understand what you need.

Here you go:

*Note: we are running one-hour #myblogguest Twitter chats weekly at 3 PM GMT / 11 am EDT. Join us hear back from the team and get guest blogging help!* Read more »

What can be a better day to be reminded of proper way to deal with people around you than st. Valentine’s day!

We don’t associate blogging with dating but sometimes we break blogging contacts too easily!

The truth is, the power is in relationships. Whoever doesn’t get it, doesn’t get marketing.

We did one Twitter chat on how any other benefits of guest blogging fade in comparison to building relationships.

@myblogguest I'm starting to build some powerful r'ships in blogging and it is a help. Key is to make yourself an authority. #MyBlogguest

— Matthew Wood (@MattWood23) February 14, 2013

Now, to celebrate the love day, let us go a bit more sugary!

Here are some relationships truths that can be applied to guest blogging and networking: Read more »

***First two important announcements: (1) We have slightly updated our TOS to better explain blogger-author relationships and (2) We have added official content policies: We don’t want you guys to be affected by any inappropriate content which makes it to the web. Please see the updated content policies here (make sure to login).***

We have been always advocates of visually-enhanced content: Images make an article user-friendlier and more interesting. Images also make it easier for an article to go viral on social media (especially image-based networks like Pinterest).

So the benefits of using images in a guest article:

• Make a guest post more appealing: If the blog owner likes it, he won’t reject it!
• Make your guest post a “like” and “pin” magnet (which means more traffic and visibility to you and the blog)
• Send better “quality” signals to Google through social media shares and likes.

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MyBlogGuest hung out on Friday, January 25th for our monthly hangout. We continued our two hangouts, opening it up for more possibilities for involvement for our MyBlogGuest community.

This time we were discussing our most recent testimonials that made it to our official blog:

• The first submission by Himadri Subrah Saha of techntechie.com was featured here;
• Second one: MyBlogGuest is Great for a Travel Blog – Video Testimonial
• Next one: MyBlogGuest Free Guest Blogging Plugin Works for Organic Gardening Tips

Our participants for this hangout included: Michael Cohn, Himadri Saha, Robert Walker, Shannon Hutcheson, Da Vinci, Robert Kraus, Chris Taylor, and Deborah Anderson.

All of the topics discussed are compiled into the video, below:

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