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The most powerful thing bloggers can ever do to raise their visibility and traffic is to become a regular contributor on related blogs.
Writing a guest post targeting a specific keyword phrase in the anchor text that links to a post or page targeting the same phrase on your own blog can get you to page one in the search engines.
I encourage bloggers to put together their own collaborations and provide free mentoring to blogging collaborations on request. One of the strategies we use is to put together groups of five bloggers who agree to become regular contributors.
You write one guest post a week to be published on one of the other blogs and you agree to publish one guest post a week from one of the others on your own blog. Here is a schedule you can use that has each blogger publishing the same day on each other blog.
By using this schedule you and your readers will know which day they can read you on each blog (and you will want to publish a short post on your own blog letting your readers know what you’ve written about and linking to your guest post. Don’t forget to use anchor text!
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | |
| Blog 1 | Writer 5 | Writer 4 | Writer 3 | Writer 2 | Guest 1 |
| Blog 2 | Writer 1 | Writer 5 | Writer 4 | Writer 3 | Guest 2 |
| Blog 3 | Writer 2 | Writer 1 | Writer 5 | Writer 4 | Guest 3 |
| Blog 4 | Writer 3 | Writer 2 | Writer 1 | Writer 5 | Guest 4 |
| Blog 5 | Writer 4 | Writer 3 | Writer 2 | Writer 1 | Guest 5 |
In months that have a fifth week you can feature five additional guest bloggers. When you have five who want to be regular contributors you may want to do a second collaboration group.
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Twitter: neulabs
August 21, 2011 at 8:33 am
Hello Gail
with this post you give me the idea how guest post work. having a schedule like that make great organized blogger.
Thanks
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I now have an idea how guest blogging can increase rank. I would remember to place an anchor text. Honestly, I have yet to understand blogging collaboration, I am aware about its benefits but yet to learn more about searching for the right partner.
Twitter: GrowMap
August 19, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Hi Eli,
Think of it like multiplying instead of adding. As an individual you can only grow by what you are doing; when collaborating you immediately get the benefit of each blog’s reach.
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 19, 2011 at 4:59 pm
P.S. I have to wonder if it has occurred to you or any man interested in the subject of your blog that this whole idea of targeting women like they’re some kind of prey is just creepy.
YES, I realize that men have been conditioned by society, the media and everything all around us to believe they SHOULD want to be Casanovas and women have been conditioned to believe they need a knight on a white horse to sweep them up and ride off into the sunset – but that does NOT mean we shouldn’t wake up and realize that conditioning for what it is and THROW IT OFF!
Your use of the word ‘exploit’ is exactly right. To do this kind of thing is EXPLOITIVE.
There is one thing every man needs to know. As long as he just wants to get laid – and any woman of a particular age or shape or blondness will do – he deserves for that to never happen.
As soon as you really care about a woman as an individual THEN you won’t need to learn how to pick her up because she could actually WANT to know you.
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Interesting concept and great idea!
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I’d like to see if someone has seen the article I placed in the website.
It was a guest blog for Linda Christas College, and evidently is causing quite a stir.
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Hello Stetson,
I just searched and do not see any guest post that includes the phrase Linda Christas College in it. Please clarify. If you have a guest post you would like me to publish let me know by replying here and telling me how I can best connect with you. You can also try the information on my contact tab to reach me.
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Twitter: ivinviljoen
August 19, 2011 at 1:31 am
Hello Gail. Yes, I now have my blog on strict schedules. 09:00, 12:00 and 15:00 (if there’s a post) and it we’re really productive that day the last post would go up 17:00. I have a similar grid up in my office and I think it helps one be more organized.
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August 18, 2011 at 1:04 pm
This is a fantastic idea, especially for procrastinators like me! Having a schedule to follow definitely helps to stay organized and follow through with your guest posting efforts.
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I love finding new ways to organize my internet business activities. My biggest trouble is probably finding good guest blog spots right now.
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August 18, 2011 at 5:50 am
A very useful system for those looking into organizing their guest blogging. All I have to do now is find 4 bloggers that I like and are willing to join the system.
Cheers !
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 18, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Hi Myke,
I’ll be doing a post on how to find other blogs in your niche or geographic location next week that can help you with that.
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August 28, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Gail,
Thanks. I was actually searching through the comments for some guidance here.
I’m working with local businesses to help them with their internet marketing efforts. The obvious place for me to guest post would be where those people are hanging out. The trouble is, I’m having problems finding them!
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This is a good idea. With these kind or approach we can at least make our regular reader aware of the next blog release. its very innovative and full of great content.
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Twitter: aprendeim
August 18, 2011 at 1:59 am
Cool post, guest blogging not only helps with SERP but it also helps you build your audience, credibility, and authority. And having a schedule just make it a lot easier for both you and your readers.
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August 18, 2011 at 1:46 am
That just might be what the doctor ordered.!
Writing post and the schedule when it should be published, can be a big help to have new post every week. Because I might write 2 posts in one week, and none the following do to lack of time.
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Scheduling tasks is a fair way to keep everyone organized. Plus, this will make sure that you cater guest blogs every month. Seems like you have many people writing for Growmap and with guest bloggers too. Congrats
Twitter: Ileane
August 17, 2011 at 5:41 pm
Hi Gail, I like having a schedule on a grid like this. It looks so organized that it makes it seem easier this way. Thanks for the tip. Btw – I submitted this to Blog Engage.
Chat soon my friend!
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 18, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Hi Ileane,
Thanks as always. I wish I could remember who did the table coding for me so I could thank them. I had this saved until I had the time to elaborate on how to use it.
I’d love to see many groups of bloggers or blogs that have converted from being the voice of one person to having many regular contributors use the schedule for their benefit.
Thanks for submitting it to Blog Engage. I’ll have to go find that link.
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August 17, 2011 at 12:08 pm
The great thing is that guest blogging does not take anything away from the blog owner because its the next natural step towards a newspaper, where many authors contribute to the success of the newspaper, the same applies to a blog or a topic blog with many related blog posts.
It’s a great idea – how mmany times have you lost track of a favourite TV show becuase the network changes the channel or the times or days’s it’s on? As a blogger you don’t want to lose an audience that may be following your writing.
Twitter: barrywheeler
August 17, 2011 at 9:52 am
This is a great idea. Not only does it give you control, it gives your readers a sense of who will be posting next.
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yes Anna i like the idea of having a schedule of the post in that way the reader easy for them to follow specially interesting topics.
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I like the idea about the schedule of the guest posts. I think it will help readers for sure to see and to look forward to the coming post. It will only increase the popularity of the blog.
Twitter: atudi1
August 17, 2011 at 4:20 am
Very interesting indeed. I still however don’t understand how the guest blog will raise my rank. Do I leave a link to my own blog with my post on someone else’s site?
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 18, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Hi Craig,
Click on the guest post category here and look at the guest posts I’ve published. When I ask a blogger to write on a particular topic I introduce their post and why I feel it is important and I close their post with a recommendation for them.
YES they get links and not just links. YOU as the guest blogger can choose what anchor text and landing pages are important to you. See my post about building traffic for how to decide that.
While some major sites do NOT allow ANY links, even most traditional sites allow the author at least a couple of links, a short bio, and if they’re smart to mention their Twitter account.
You have to look at the big picture long term. Every guest post increases your visibility, directly provides incoming links and is likely to indirectly increase the number of incoming links because others read the post and decided to start linking to you.
It also brings you a larger audience and should increase traffic to your own site plus more subscribers.
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Twitter: atudi1
August 19, 2011 at 5:56 am
thanks a lot Gail for clearing that one up. I’ve always thought, mistakenly, that guest blogging was rather a waste of time and article creativity…now i know better.
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hi,
This is really innovative for your side. This could be of great help for all the bloggers. Well thanks for the suggestion.
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