How To Write A Guest Post

Guest posting is a creative way of writing new articles on other's websites and blogs. This is an amazing way of sharing your content through other's platform. By writing your post on other, not only their readership will increase, but people will also follow to your own blog through backlinks provided by the host. It will help your blog to get more traffic and more subscribers.

Writing a guest post is not so simple as it sounds. It requires a lots of hard-work because writing a post in your blog is so easy as compared to writing on other's blog. It is not a easy job to get your post selected by the owner of that blog. You have to convince the owner that you are actually providing a good quality content that will help help their readers and help their blog to grow.

Here are some steps which you should follow to write a guest for others.

How To Write A Guest Post ?

1. First thing to write a guest post is to have a list of blogs that are willing to accept guest posts. There is a very simple way to find blogs that are ready to accept guest posts based on your niche.

2. Open Google search engine and look for the following terms - 

•  "Your topic" + "write for us"
• "Your topic" + "contribute"

Both of the above will generate a similar results 

Here is an example how it works - 

A simple google search on the topic 'seo' helped me to find thousands of blogs that are willing to accept my guest post on their blogs.

3. After making the list of few blogs for which you are going to request them, you have to contact their administrator and convince them so that they will agree to post your post on their blog and provide you a few backlinks. 

For this you will be writing a mail to them to describe about yourself. Here is a good way to contact them  - 

Hey (Blogger Name),

I am huge fan of (Blog Name)

And I would love to be your next guest author.

To just give you an idea of the quality I will be bringing to you, here are some of my recent posts:

1. Link 1

2. Link 2

3. Link 3

Here are some ideas I have in my mind :

1. Guest post idea 1

2. Guest post idea 2

3. Guest post idea 3

Let me know what you think.

Keep up the awesome work at (Blog Name)

Regards,

Your Name 

This is a good way of approaching to the web masters. In this way they came to know about your past work and also the ideas which you have for their blogs. Some blogs provide their own format and requirements, so follow according to it in that case.

Some More Tips On Getting Your Guest Post Approved

1. Write your post first before approaching anyone. The blog owner may immediately respond to you and ask for the content and in that case if you don't have it , they may kick you out.

2. Every blog have a different style of writing. So before sending it to them, try to know and write your content in their blog's style.

3. Providing a sample content is very important for some web masters. They will look for your past guest post on other blogs and then only they will decide whether to accept your content or not. It is good to approach low authority blogs first and get some experience to show for the high authority web masters.

4. Writing the content which is relevant to their blog. They are not going to accept it if you are not writing which will help their readers.

5. Don't include your affiliate links without asking their permission. Mostly, they will not allow to add your affiliate links. Only they will provide you a few backlinks. 

6. Don't give the web owner too much of work i.e your post should be completed byline, formatted and all the necessary images also included on your server so that the blog owner can directly post it without doing much efforts.

I hope this post helped you in writing guest posts. If you have any query or something additional to share with me then feel free to post in the comments below.

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How To Embed Facebook Post In Your Blog's Post

Most of the time you have heard about adding a YouTube video in your blog sidebar or in the post. But, you may not know that you can also embed a Facebook post in your blog. This is a good way to show some more information on your post and it makes your blog to look more professional. Also, the user can directly like, comment or reply to that post without going to that particular Facebook page. But remember, you can only embed Facebook post which are public.

In this post, I will show you how you can also start adding Facebook post in your content. Follow these simple steps given below.

Embed Facebook Post In Your Blog's Content

Step 1 : First you have to look for the public post which you want to embed in your blog. The post can be yours or any others. When you select it, look for the downward arrow to open options related to it.

Step 2 : Click on 'Embed Post' and you will see a HTML code related to it. Copy that HTML code in a notepad file.

Step 3 : Now, open your blogger account and go to 'Post' sections. Edit the post on which you want to embed this Facebook status. 

Step 4 : Edit that post in HTML form and paste the copied code there according to you.

Step 5 : Now publish or update that post and you are done with it. Now, you will see that Facebook update on your post and it can be liked or commented directly form there. Below is a preview how it will look like in your blog.

I hope this tutorial helped you to embed Facebook updates in your blog's post. If you face any problem then feel free to comment below or if you liked it then please share it.

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Best Tip For Writing a E-Book

Writing a E-book is very much similar to writing a book. It requires lot of knowledge, hard work and a little bit of smartness to make your E-book interesting to read. When you decide to write E-book about any topic than you may have all the knowledge of that topic but the problem comes when you starts to write. We always struggle in starting. We don't know where to start.

If you're struggling with figuring out what to write about, whether it's for your next blog post, or that eBook you're working on, try this method out:

1. Go to Amazon.com and type in keywords that are related to your niche. For example, if your site or eBook was about flyfishing, you'd type in flyfishing in the search field.

2. Locate the top books in the search results, and click on one of them. This will open up the page that shows you what it's about, how much it costs, etc.

3. Look inside the cover. The cool thing that Amazon does is that it shows us the first few and the last few pages of most of their books. And what page is always shown when you "look inside"?

The Table Of Contents

The table of contents will show you exactly what kinds of things people are talking about within that niche. So, for our flyfishingexample, in one of the top books, I see the following:

Part 1: Flyfishing
1. Introduction
2. Understanding Fly Tackle
3. How to Fly Cast
4. Fly-Fishing Tactics
5. The Biology of Fish

...and so on and so forth.

Now, you don't want to just copy each of these parts of the table of contents verbatim and use them yourself. They are too general! They should, however, give you ideas on what you can write about.

So for example, here are some blog post titles or chapters of eBooks that I've derived just from this part of the table of contents:

5 Types of Fly Fishing Tackle and the One That Works Best
What Exactly Triggers a Fish to Eat Your Artificial Lure
Why That Fish Won't Even Look at Your Fly
The Beginner's Guide to Casting a Fly Rod
How to Practice Fly Casting 
8 Fly-Fishing Tips to Give Yourself the Best Chance to Catch Fish
Advanced Fly Tackle - For Serious Fisherman Only

You get the idea.

We're basically getting a boost of inspiration from looking inside the covers of these books. If you think about it, a lot of money went into helping the authors figure out how to organize and determine what they were going to write about, so now you can use that as your own starting point to make even better content for your eBook or blog.

So try it out. Go to Amazon, enter a keyword, look inside the covers, find the table of contents, and get inspired.

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How To Write Good Quality Content ?

If you are new to blogging world then you might have heard the word ‘quality content’ or ‘content is king’. When I started blogging I also faced these words and I don’t getting the real thought behind this and for the same problem you are reading this now.

Every blogger whatever the subject of his/her niche should must know the meaning of what a good quality content means or how to write a great content for your readers. Now the question arises that why anyone will not be writing good content for his site, everyone in this world try to put their full energy into their work. There is no doubt that you might be putting your full energy and dedication and writing a very well content for your blog but that doesn’t mean that you are actually using your full energy.

To make you more understand let me give you an example. Suppose there is a manufacturer who is producing any products, retailers buys the product in a large quantity and sells it to the customers. The process is simple and I guess it will be known to everyone. But who will decide the quality. Ofcourse the one who is producing it will decide the quality of that product but the real customers who is using it will judge the quality. The customers judgement is most important no matters how great manufacturer feels about their product. But I forgot to mention about retailer, yes the retailers too plays a very important role here. If the retailer is not getting enough margin in selling this product he will reject it or there may be some other manufacturer who is offering him more profit. So here to make a business, the manufacturer will have to make happy both, retailers and customers.

The same situation can be applied here also. You are the that manufacturer, your readers are the customers and the retailers are the search engines like google, bing etc. Your content can be called a good quality content only when the peoples will say it great and search engines will find it SEO friendly.

Now you understands that you have to write for readers and for search engines (means SEO friendly).

Write Good Quality Content for Readers

1. Use Attractive Titles - Your article must have a title which actually hit the target of your article. Readers should not be confused from your article.
2. Stay only on the topic - Your article should strictly focus only on its topic. You cannot start on a subject and ends on what you have done yesterday. It puts negative impression on readers.
3. Use sub-headings -  If your article is long enough then you must divide it into different sections. It increases the understandability of the article and helps your reader to understand more.
4. Use simple words - Your article should not be written in very tough words or like it is written by a poet or novelist. It should be written in simple words that is easily understandable for everyone.
5. Be Original - Your article must be original. It shouldn’t be on other places because if peoples found it copied from other resource, then you will loose their trust and not only they will reject your article for reading they also start thinking that other articles on your site may also be copied.
6. Problem Solving - Whatever be the topic discussed in your article it should solve the problem of the reader or give him the required information for what he is looking for. Your article must satisfy the reader and this will increase your trust on him.
7. Use simple fonts - Font selection is often not required because default font is always best but if you want to use different font then be careful that you are not compromising with the understandability. 

 Write Good Quality Content for Search Engines

No matters how good your article is, it is just useless if readers will unable to get it. Your article must be SEO friendly, means search engine like your pages and ranks you high in their ranking. You don’t have to be a SEO expert, you just have to know some basic rules so that your article should get a decent place in search results.

 Follow these rules for writing a high or good quality content in language of search engines.

1. You should include some keywords related related to your article so that search engines will understand the content of your article.
2. The keywords which you are using should have a keyword density between 2-4%. It means for every 100 words it should include 2-4 times your keywords.
3. If keyword density of your article is more than 5%, then it is termed as over optimization or over SEO which is not good for you. You will penalized for doing this and your article will be put down by search engines.
4. The content of your article must be original. Google only likes original content and you cannot trick it by writing 1 line by yourself and copying 9 lines from others.
5. Use some images in your article as per your subject.

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