Blogs are as prolific as ever but it’s seeming increasingly hard to publish your work online; offering to write guest blog posts in exchange for links is a great way to get your foot in the door of the online journalism world but where do you start?
There are multiple ways to find opportunities to publish a guest blog post, many of which begin with a simple targeted internet search or a flock of emailing to nearly every blog you’ve ever come across. Let’s break down each option to determine which is best for you and more importantly, which will be the most successful form of outreach.
Google Search Operators
Most blogs that accept guest posts will have a designated page or section of their contact page that will outline such an opportunity. Thankfully, you don’t need to scour individual blog websites to find such an opportunity, you can simply search via google with a set of particular phrases to turn up plenty of guest blogging opportunities.
We’ve compiled a list of phrases that appear on most offers of guest blogging on various genres of online journal and blogs so you don't have to…
Keyword “guest post”
Keyword “guest article”
Keyword “write for us”
Keyword “suggest a post”
Keyword “submit an article”
Keyword “contributor guidelines”
Keyword “this is a guest post by”
Keyword “become a contributor”
Keyword “guest poster wanted”
Keyword “become an author”
Each individual search using this keyword and targeted search operator in conjunction can turn up hundreds of very viable pages displaying opportunities for you to write a guest post
Prolific Guest Blogger
After sieving through several of the guest post blogging opportunities turned up by our suggested google search operators you may notice some guest post authors whose work you particularly respect.
More often than not these prolific guest post bloggers will have their own websites where they display their published work. Take note of the blogs they frequently post on as this could be a great opportunity for you to write for a high quality blog as demonstrated by your noted prolific blogger’s affinity for it.
Finding guest blogging opportunities is one thing but determining which ones are worthwhile is entirely another.
As much as this method of determining high quality guest posting opportunities is easy and offers great success it is rather time consuming and oftentimes will not offer the vast amounts of opportunities you may be in need of. A great way to access myriad opportunities arises from using two software platforms that we’ll outline next.
Competitor Backlinks
Ahrefs and SEMRush are two software platforms that allow you to view links from guest posts on various websites. The more links arising from guest posts the more likely the blog is to allow guest posts from you.
This still means that you’ll have to survey blogs for quality before requesting a guest post article so there’s an alternate way of utilising the software to save this hassle.
You can specifically check your competitors backlinks to see where they have guest posts and target these blogs for opportunities. This saves you the hassle of individually checking the quality of blogs before approaching them for guest blogging opportunities as if your competitor wrote for a particular blog then they must be of relatively high quality!
Social Media Search
The simplest way to utilise social media to gather guest posting opportunities is to check your competitor’s page in search of any promotions they may be issuing for a guest post of theirs.
Another method is to engage in targeted search operators much like we discussed in our google search operator section. The targeted words will be identical on social media as they are in google search so it’s best to search your relevant keyword in conjunction with “guest post” or any of the like.
As we outlined in a previous paragraph, prolific guest bloggers are a great untapped resource in searching for your own guest blogging opportunities. After identifying some individuals in your deep dive internet search, check out their social media pages for any guest posts they may be promoting themselves. Once again, if you identify a blog that accepts guest posts then have a go at contacting them for your own guest posting spot!
Guest Post Sites and Communities
There are plenty of websites advertising their need for guest post bloggers and luckily loganix.com has compiled all the top opportunities in one handy list so you can get writing.
There are plenty of online communities on various platforms including reddit, linkedin and facebook all with groups that post all their guest blogging opportunities for your ease. Finding them is as simple as searching “guest post opportunities” in your respective website search bar offering up all manners of groups that’ll help you pin down some writing opportunities.
How Can I Get Sites to Let Me Write Guest Posts
So you’ve found an array of guest blogging opportunities and now you need to worry about being accepted as a guest author.
Ensuring that your work is going to be accepted is really and truly only dependent on its quality and presentation. Ensuring that your website is professionally developed with articles in your niche written to a high quality offering unique and informative information is a sure fire way to make yourself an asset in the world of blog posting.
Taking note of the niche of the blog you're approaching and offering innovative ideas as to how they can achieve their specific place in the blogosphere via a guest post you may write puts you in a position of desire for the website. Ultimately, offering something unique and of interest to the blog your approaching will put you ahead of the likely many other competitors seeking out the same guest posting opportunities as you are.
Conclusion
So there you have it, there are multiple ways to search for guest blogging opportunities and even assess their quality with a relative degree of speed and ease.
If you’re comfortable utilising software then by all means go for the competitor backlinks route, or if you’re more social media savvy then opt for a simple social search to gather some potential clients.
There are infinite opportunities to guest post, it's just up to you to find them!
Blogs are as prolific as ever but it’s seeming increasingly hard to publish your work online; offering to write guest blog posts in exchange for links is a great way to get your foot in the door of the online journalism world but where do you start?
There are multiple ways to find opportunities to publish a guest blog post, many of which begin with a simple targeted internet search or a flock of emailing to nearly every blog you’ve ever come across. Let’s break down each option to determine which is best for you and more importantly, which will be the most successful form of outreach.