Latest From Blogigs - Myths About Guest Posting
Latest From Blogigs - Myths About Guest Posting |
| Posted: 14 Jun 2010 08:13 AM PDT
Of late, many blogs have started to offer others to do the ‘dirty work’ of writing posts for their blogs while they sit back and reap the benefits of getting good and high quality contents for free. Do a search for ‘guest posting’ and you will find blogs that has something that says, “Write For Us” in their navigation bar. Foolish bloggers, after reading many “blogging tips on how to increase blog traffic” see this as a golden opportunity for them to make their blogs known. They go on a guest posting spree, spending much of their time writing articles for others. Alas, they should have used that time for themselves and their own blogs instead. They should have kept their best articles for themselves instead of giving it to others for free and let others reap the rewards from the efforts they have put in. Before I went on to publish this article, I did too went ‘guest posting’ to find out if what those ’so-called’ gurus advise that guest posting will increase your traffic is true. As expected, this is another ‘killer blogging’ tip that was cooked up by some half backed gurus with a highly imaginative mind that holds no truth. Guest posting WILL NOT and WILL NEVER increase your blog traffic. Guest Posts Are Different From Review Posts What kind of a post in a third party blog will increase your traffic? A review post or an introductory post. That is what will get that blog’s readers to come over to your blog. Whether you pay that blogger to write a review of your blog or whether that blogger somehow takes a liking for you and made an introductory post about your blog, you WILL see an influx of readers coming over from that blog. If that bloggers happens top be an A-lister with tens of thousands of reader daily, expect at least 60% of them to come a visiting. On the other hand, if you submitted an article to him and it got published, don’t jump for joy. You have just done him a great favor. You just saved him a bundle of writer’s fees if he had outsourced it from freelance writers. Instead of him thanking you, you, the other way round, felt indebted to him for publishing your article, thinking you will become half as famous as him. Sadly, you won’t even be getting 10% of his traffic even though he has allowed you to add your blog’s link somewhere in the article. It Is Just Human Mindset. When you enter someone’s house, whatever you see inside the house will be deemed by you to be owned by the houseowner. He could have loaned the beautiful painting from a friend just for the occasion, and he did tell you that the painting was borrowed, but when you admire the painting, you will never give a thought to the original owner. What has been etched in your mind is you saw that painting in that house. Even after weeks when you think back about the painting, you will think of the houseowner whose house you saw the painting in. Not the original owner. Same theory applies to your guest post. No matter where the blogger lets you insert your link or even if the blogger states it clearly in the beginning or in the end that this is an article by you, no one is going to pay any attention. If you have written something with a long lasting impression, that long lasting impression will be focused on that blog, not you, as the original author. So even if they return, they will be heading over to that blog, not yours. Oh well, maybe a trickle will check on you out of curiosity. Hopefully you net those and make them into your loyal readers. 
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