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MyBlogGuest was started as a free forum with the idea of connecting people for mutual guest blogging benefits. It was never meant to grow that big. It was never meant to be monetized. It was funded from my services.

Then we started features that people needed or were asking for. That’s when we started paid memberships in order to cover development and maintenance costs. None of the initially free features has become paid. And we added some free features as well.

That's what we call a comm-ty driven platform RT @myblogguest: Then we started features that people needed or were asking for #myblogguest

— Sana Knightly (@SanaKnightly) October 17, 2013

Free Features

If you seek free content for your blog, all parts of the site are FREE for you. You can get free articles, free infographics, free eBooks. Our guest blogging WordPress plugin is another absolutely free and cool feature any publisher can install to get an easy access to our database of free content.

We had an indepth chat on free features previously: MyBlogGuest Free Features for the Guest *Author*

Basically, as a free member, you get an access to the variety of free stuff including:

• Forum and forum subscriptions (that send you email updates of new requests)

The Forums on My Blog Guest are active and valuable. An excellent place to meet other writers and publishers. #myblogguest

— Don Sturgill (@Don_Sturgill) October 17, 2013

@Don_Sturgill And that (#activeForums) can't be said about every web site. #MyBlogGuest rocks!

— Deborah (@socialwebcafe) October 17, 2013

• Free hand-picked lists (like “Featured opportunities” list that gets constantly updated)
• Inbox (together with “Follow up” reminders that allow you to scale your outreach)
• Free “Help needed” forum where you can get extra social media shares for your guest posts (This feature has been later expanded to a separate free platform called Viral Content Buzz)
• “Friendlist” is a cool feature that helps you organize and keep in touch with your MBG connections

the MBG Google+ community is also free & great! #myblogguest

— Craig Fifield (@CraigFifield) October 17, 2013

PRO membership

PRO membership was designed for guest authors who seek getting further educated and placing more guest articles. It’s meant to actually turn you into a content marketing and guest blogging *pro*.

This is a very helpful topic: Paid features @myblogguest Even I get confused sometimes (blush) #myblogguest

— Deborah (@socialwebcafe) October 17, 2013

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If you have not yet joined MyBlogGuest community on Google Plus, you are missing out. We have lots of quality discussions there (thanks to our awesome moderator Don Sturgill).

One of the weekly traditions, Community Mastermind, is awesome source of knowledge, connections and interactions. Ever week Don would invite one expert who answers questions from the community. What a great idea!

Here are some awesome quotes from our previous mastermind guests: Read more »

MyBlogGuest hung out on Friday, September 27th, for our September hangout.

The following questions were answered and discussed.

1. So what is the big deal with this “mastermind” thing? (00:01)
2. What do I ask the mastermind person? (00:244)
3. How do I get chosen as a “mastermind?” (00:53)
4. Why would I want to be in the “hot seat?” (01:22)
5. Speaking of community, what is the secret to MBG’s G+ growth? (02:29)
6. How do I get my guest post promoted on the MBG platform? (04:14)
7. What other MBG forums are there? (04:52)
8. What makes that one *paid* forum so special? (05:03)
9. What are some advantages to participating in the monthly hangouts? (05:51)

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

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Please take the full free course over at @udemy to make sure you know and get most out of your MyBlogGuest membership!

eBooks, or digital books, are one of the most efficient content marketing and content re-packaging methods:

• eBooks open your content for offline reading (with tablets and smartphones on the rise, that’s especially essential)
• eBooks, thus, let your customers take your brand with them (on the plane or vacation). Your readers are more likely to remember and return to your site if they have your eBook on their digital shelf
• eBook marketing is fun and easy: You have Amazon kindle, iBooks, etc to market your book on.
• Free eBooks are a great link bait (who wouldn’t like a curated list of eBooks like this)
• eBooks are shared eagerly (especially if you implement “Tweet to download” or a similar trick)

In other words, if you haven’t tried eBook marketing, you are missing out… Especially now that we are introducing a new fun feature for content marketers:

eBook Gallery

eBook gallery lets you bring your eBooks to publishers with the unique description of your own. It works much like the Inforgraphics gallery … only it’s for (e)Books:

eBook gallery… sounds like a great new feature! #myblogguest

— David McSweeney (@top5seo) October 10, 2013

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***First an announcement: If you want to become #MyBlogGuest expert and make the most of its features, please take the full free course over at @udemy

Today’s chat aims at addressing one popular misconception about MyBlogGuest: We are NOT a match-making service (yet, maybe); we are NOT automating anything and we are NOT designed for easy quick gains.

MyBlogGuest is the community that offers guest authors to reach out to bloggers (and vice versa). We develop tools to make your life easier and help you with our suggestions and guidelines. We have rules and quality requirements in place to make sure there’s a balance between the needs of guest authors and blog publishers. Read more »

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The time flies so fast, and it’s again the last Thursday of the month! Which means that tomorrow is the last Friday, and we are having Google Hangout – please join us to ask your questions live!

This week we are pushing 10 guest posts published via MyBlogGuest during the last month. We’ll appreciate your tweets, shares, comments, and healthy criticism on these posts!

• 5 Classic Mistakes The Pinterest Marketer Must Avoid – If taken smartly these 5 mistakes can be tips of how to get most out of your Pinterest campaign. We’d like to say special thank you to Glenn Cowan for this post!

Glenn loves Elite Gallery & your editorial comments, Don! RT @Don_Sturgill: Glenn is a hard worker. http://t.co/7emzVgZxUz #myblogguest

— Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) September 26, 2013

@seosmarty Don is a tough but amazing editor 🙂 #myblogguest

— David B. Faltz (@dfaltz) September 26, 2013

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Are you ready for our September 2013 MyBlogGuest Google+ Hangout On Air? It is coming up, Friday, September 27, 2013.

MBG Hangout: 1pm 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 Focus on Content Marketing

We will be talking about some of the same topics we have covered on past hangouts, but going more in-depth, with a focus on quality and how you can attain that with the tools available at MyBlogGuest.  You can get a preview, by reviewing some of the summaries, here:

• How to Share Your Guest Post on Google Plus.
• How To Re-package Your Guest Posts for More Exposure and Benefits.
• Guest Blogging for Content Marketing.
• How to Find Free Articles and Website Content.

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There are two things you need to remember when sharing your guest post on Google Plus:

• Google Plus updates do very well when it comes to personalized Google rankings (your connections see what you share when searching Google with a huge sacrifice on relevancy).
• It’s a Google property and Google has internal nofollow attribute for a GOOD reason.

Let’s discuss both factors in some detail: Read more »

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Re-packaging = turning your (text) content into different types of media or other formats of content. Re-packaging is one of the most effective content marketing tactics. It allows you to:

• Create more content based on one research
• Target more diverse social media and content marketing channels
• Bring up your older content by keep referring to it from your re-packaged versions.

Here are a few tips on re-packaging your guest posts:

*Remember to always link from your repackaged content to the original guest post – that’s the most effective second-tier link building I’ve seen in my life! And your publisher will love you even more!*

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