3 Great Ways to Find Guest Blog Partners

Posted by SeoLair On August - 13 - 2010

As we’ve no doubt learned by now, guest blogging is one of the best ways to get more exposure and links for your website. Not is it almost 100% Google-friendly, but it allows you to tap into another blogger’s established network and perhaps take advantage of their high PR website. The person who hosts your guest blog post hopefully gets your high-quality and original content to offer to their readers and keep them interested in returning to their site.

Deciding that you WANT to guest post and finding a place to guest post are two very different things, however, and having some great content for distribution is only half the battle. You can write a fantastic article and be stuck with absolutely no place to put it. You may firmly believe that your content is deserving of a home on a highly trafficked blog with great PR and loyal readers, and perhaps there’s even such a blog out there, just waiting for content like yours, but if you can’t find it, then your fantastic guest post will be doomed to obscurity. How can this problem be addressed? How can we find great places to post our content? We can’t always count on friends or colleagues to have blogs for us to post our content to (big shout out to SeoLair!).

One of the first things I would suggest trying is a website called Topsy. Topsy describes itself as a search engine for Twitter. If you do a search on Topsy for any topic, you can find websites that have been popular on Twitter in a certain period of time for that topic. These websites have a great social reach and would be ideal places to ask for a guest blog post. Your request doesn’t have to be a difficult thing. Send the author of the blog a direct message, introduce yourself, explain what you have to offer and why you think a guest blog post would be mutually advantageous.

Topsy isn’t the only place you can search for potential blog posting partners. Another good location you can use is Google Alerts. Google Alerts allows you to scour the web for certain topics or keywords. When these words or topics get mentioned, Google will compile a list of the websites that mentioned the very thing you were hoping to guest post about. These are all great locations for potential guest blog posts. Sometimes you don’t even have to send a ‘cold-call’ type of email. Many bloggers already have systems for guest-blogging already set up and in place. Some even are willing to pay for reliable writers of quality content.

You can also always look around on forums and portals pertaining to your topic of interest. Chances are, if you have a passion for something, someone has made a forum centered around your topic. Try searching for your topic in Google plus the words “forum”, “blog”, or “message board”. Chances are, you’ll find lots of like-minded individuals who might be willing to exchange guest blog posts so you can tap into each others’ social networks and readers.

Without a doubt, however, the absolute best way to find a place to host guest content is at My Blog Guest. My Blog Guest is a relatively new community (just 8 months old) of bloggers who meet on a forum to exchange guest blog posts. The community has been kept relatively small because of the high quality demanded by blog authors on the website; if you are hoping to get your spammy or poorly written guest content featured by bloggers on the forum, you’d better think again. This is just the perfect resource for identifying bloggers in similar niches that you can be totally sure are actively seeking the content you’ve written. And hey, if you are a blogger and you are having trouble updating your blog as often as you want, why not head on over to My Blog Guest and see if you can score a quality guest blogger eager for their content to reach your audience?

My Blog Guest is a totally free service, although it does have a premium membership that allows certain extra additional features, but currently, these features are more like conveniences than actual necessities. In addition to the open forums where bloggers and content writers meet to exchange articles, there’s a jobs board where various paid writing opportunities can be posted and an open articles forum where anyone can submit conent for consideration (although only premium members can claim content from there). It’s still managed by just a handful of moderators and the community has stayed so small that the standards have stayed high and the riff-raff have been kept out. I hope that if you read this and decide to join our guest-blogging community, you will espouse similar high standards for your own conduct.

David Fishman is a blogger and internet marketing enthusiast from Atlanta, GA. In his spare time, he likes to blog about his interests, which recently involve cooking and food preparation and specifically, how to make sushi.