Summary: Guest blogging is considered the quickest way to get traffic to a website or blog. In fact, it is so effective that most website owners no longer need to buy links or try black hat SEO to rank. With that, this tutorial will help you dig blogs to guest post as well as teach you some tricks on how to create an effective guest post.

Time Duration: 10 minutes

Follow these steps on how to get traffic through guest blogging

This add-on/plugin/extension provides information about websites on a search results page. It will reveal the Google PageRank, Alexa, Google Index etc.

For example, if I search for the term “beauty products” you will see a list of websites or web pages with data below the meta-description – see example.

Step 1 Download SeoQuake plugin for Firefox browser or add SeoQuake Chrome extension.

If you want to take advantage of this chance, you can use your main keywords in your search. Using the same example on beauty products, try to narrow down your list of search terms to your targeted keywords such as lipstick, make-up, eyeliner, etc.

Download SeoQuake plugin for Firefox browser or add SeoQuake Chrome extension.

Step 2 Go to Google or Firefox and search for related blogs.

Having a format will help you filter blogs that accepts guest blogging and those that do not. You can also expand your search terms to “guest blogging,” “contribute post,” “submit post,” and “write for blog/us.”

Step 3 Use search format <keyword of niche> blog and guest post

Alexa Traffic Rank is a measure of a website’s popularity. The lower the number, the popular the website becomes. So, a website with an Alexa Traffic Rank of number is considered the most popular website.

Select blogs with the lowest number of Alexa Traffic Rank.

Step 4

To keep track of all the blogs you want to guest post on, copy the URLs, list their PageRank and Alexa Traffic Rank and save them in a text document or an excel file.

Prepare a text documentStep 5

Look at the website to determine if they are still accepting guest posts. Despite having the words “guest post” on their site some either have temporarily stopped accepting guest posts or only accept those from registered authors.

Visit each website or blog on your listStep 6

Once you have compiled a final list of potential blogs, take some time to read their posts to get a general idea of how they like their post. Check also their guidelines for guest posting and pay extra attention to how many links they allow.

Compile a sure list of blogs to guest postStep 7

Get to work and write at least two articles for the same blog. The other one will become your backup if the blog rejects the first one. Here is some of the must-do when writing a guest post:

• Write unique articles that have not been published anywhere on the web• Proofread post several times before submitting• Create sub-headers and provide images• Have your own resource box or a link to your website

Write your guest postStep 8

Go through your list and make sure you have one or two guest posts a week. This is to ensure that you get a constant stream of traffic to your website.

Plan a schedule for a weekly guest postStep 9

Track how many visitors you received from the blogs. This will help you determine which blogs are giving you enough traffic and the type of blog post that receives this attention. Who knows? You might become a regular guest author on some of these blogs because of your compelling blog posts.

Guest blogging is not the only strategic blog traffic plan. Knowing how to get traffic through guest blogging as well as eBook creation and press release writing will help you be ranked higher on search engine results, not to mention the vote of confidence Alexa Traffic Rank will give you.

Keep track of your guest postsStep10

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