Last week we were talking about guest blogging bylines: That should be interesting, unique, non-promotional and describe a human being behind the content. Of course, obviously, we understand that brainstorming a byline is not as easy as it may seem.

Today’s Twitter chat aims at making your job easier: It will give you some clues to what should be included in the byline and how to make it cool.

***Reminder: Our Twitter chats are each Thursday 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. GMT. To join, simply follow #myblogguest hashtag and include it in your tweets. Here are a few easy ways to participate described. Next week we’ll skip the chat for Thanksgiving, so see you in a week, Thursday (November, 29) at 11 am!***

Usual components of a good byline:

• Your name
• Your profession and company (or project or book)
• Any extra details that make the byline interesting and unique. Tip: Use details to better relate your byline to the guest article (to make it one whole piece).
• Your social media profiles to show *you* outside your content.

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We have this topic come up again and again: People just can’t write good guest blogging bylines: This is one f the most abused and misunderstood part of the guest article.

Let’s see MyBlogGuest stance on that:

(Reminder: Our Twitter chats are each Thursday 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. GMT. To join, simply follow #myblogguest hashtag and include it in your tweets. Here are a few easy ways to participate described)

First Things First: Keep Your Bylines Unique!

Author bylines are part of the article, so the most important rule applies: They should be *original* in each of your articles. Read more »

There have been so many misunderstandings and rumors around Google, its penalties and updates that one can hardly keep up with them while keeping sanity.

Today’s Twitter chat is about facts – that’s our desperate attempt to keep everyone sane.

(Reminder: Our Twitter chats are each Thursday 11 a.m. EDT / 3 p.m. GMT. To join, simply follow #myblogguest hashtag and include it in your tweets. Here are a few easy ways to participate described)

So what do we know for sure?

So: Only *facts* today: Google’s official take on guest blogging! Read more »

Last week on Friday was our monthly Google Hangout. The Mighty Google keeps having various bugs that often prevents some of the greatest minds from joining our discussion. All we have is to keep trying hoping it will soon be easier to enter Google’s live events!

Last time we were discussing publishers’ tips, content marketing and building relations with bloggers.

Participants: Phil Turner (our moderator in chief), Michael Cohn (our user), John Brace (our user), and Deborah Anderson (our social media strategist and event host).

If you had trouble tuning in or missed it for any other reason, here are the takeaways:

It is that time again. Time for another MyBlogGuest. Our October 2012 MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air is here, Friday, October 26, 2012 at 3PM GMT (currently 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT), same time (different day) as our weekly MBG Twitter Chat.

Featuring… YOU!

Now that we’ve got you warmed up to the hangouts, as a regular perk of the MBG Community, it is time for you to shine. Let’s truly turn this into a community hangout and discuss what is on your mind. There are no rules, per se, except that we are a courteous community and follow basic human decency.

However, for the sake of others who may want to participate, please enter the hangout with the intention to talk and be seen on camera. If you would prefer to be a silent viewer, you can do that, and just watch the hangout, but we really want to hear your lovely voice and see your face. Read more »

As you know here at MyBlogGuest we try to give away as many free features as we can. There’s a number of them, and we decided to make a list to remind our members of an extra exposure they can get from the guest blogging community.

*Social* Help Needed Forum

Using *Social* help needed forum section is very simple: just start a new topic, give a link to your guest article, and ask for social love. Our members willingly share posts of each other – we are so grateful for that. Besides we have full-time moderator there who helps promoting content daily via @myblogguest Twitter account.

Please watch this awesome video created by Psychguy from http://www.whatispsychology.biz/ (WIP)

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Guest blogging has lots of benefits: it builds your brand, refers traffic to your own projects, grows your link power, you name it! There’s another huge task it helps you with: reputation management in Google.

What reputation management does is simple: basically, it ensures that whenever anyone searches Google for {your name}, he/she sees all good positive reviews that compels him/her to buy from you 🙂

*** Note: Our next #myblogguest Twitter chat is on October, 18 (11 am EDT / 3 pm GMT) and we’ll talk about all the different ways you can promote your already-live guest article using MyBlogGuest to get more traffic and benefits! Please see this article on instructions to join!

So how can guest blogging help you manage your (personal) brand online? Read more »