When someone offered to guest after two or three years, it has generally been to other bloggers, colleagues or people who believe just as write something for you. Today, you're more likely to receive requests for post invited freelance bloggers paid by companies to help better rank bloggers work or search for their own network of blogs.
Most of the time they will tell you at the front, or you will notice by their email address. Other times, they just congratulate you you and send you a history of control. Once you approve the story, surprise! xstudentfreeloansx.com.
You can also ask: why is someone who claim in his bio that he is a blogger of xstudentfreeloansx.com wants to publish on Origami? How this person would be an expert in what he does if he also wrote on endocrinology, quantum mechanics and tarot?
I know what you think: it is a blog tips blog, is not this guy on the careers blog? Well, yeah… but I still blog and I swear to God that I am not paid by anyone to write this. However, I do not mean that each blogger who is paid to do so is a mercenary, I just want to say be careful.
As we know all the benefits of guest blogging are countless - there is no need to explain this to you guys - but there are also hidden traps.
Let me tell you what happened just for me: ten minutes ago, I have considered guest post submission when something triggered a red light in my editing-mode-spirit. Too many words were repeating too often. Say that same paragraph of line 4 or 5 times in a 4.
So I zoomed in the article and began to search for words repeated more in detail. Article has been organized, well structured and it made sense. No either… revolutionary ideas, it was a fill in nice for these weeks of creative drought.
Problem was that it was heavy keyword. Heavy to the point where you you're felt that you have read an article written by Mr. Adwords.
I looked at links suggested by Zemanta and were all, I have seen these keywords that I had identified as "spammy".
So that made me think this person wrote to my dearly beloved audience, or to the search engines? If would it, then why I feed my readers with something of not designed for them. You as a blogger have a unique voice. The voice is what gives personality to your blog, what makes it unique.
Adding different voices by taking guest in, among other things, is a great way to give your readers a break from you and add color to your blog.
What you may not allow is to let your voice is lost in the noise by adding another that sounds like everyone and no one is at the same time. Perfect grammar is not an opinion or a most valuable idea. There can be easy to read informative articles, but they lack soul.
Another drawback is that if your audience is smart enough after a few positions ravaged by keyword, they'll start noting that your blog begins to look like a farm a proper blog content.
If you decide to take this case of guest blogging on your site, make sure that they do not top.
