top of page
Search
  • benmaart

Guest Post Tips to Boost Your Brand

Guest posting is nothing but a person writing content for others' websites or blogs. This is generally done to attract people and divert them back to their website. Mostly, guest posting is done for websites of similar content or theme. It is done to increase the audience for your domain using external sources. Guest posting promotes awareness and credibility for the company or brand. It is also one of the best ways to build a good relationship with your industry players.




Most of the time, guest posting is beneficial to both the website who is hosting the guest and the guest who posts. Though guest posting is done with similar blogs or websites, it serves as a tool to establish yourself to a new audience. It will help to show yourself as a powerful figure and publicize your brand or company in another company's forum. This will not only increase your reputation but also will gain your trustworthiness and public promotion. It will help to show yourself as an expert in your field.

Guest Posting will serve as a significant tool to improve your business, as you get yourself introduced to a newer audience. It will also provide fresh perspectives to your content, rather than grinding the same old stuff. It saves time and energy for the receiving content team, as they will be featuring the guest's content. It is therefore highly beneficial to both parties.

Tips to follow while you Guest Post

  • Look for companies with a wider audience: When you choose companies to guest posts, look for companies with a wider audience and not your competitors. The website must be a legitimate one, with high potential to boost your business. These websites must be a place where your target audience often visits. When the audience reverts to your site, they must be able to get connected to your content and become your permanent audience. You must choose such websites where your target audience often visits. When you choose random websites for guest posts, it will not only pull a temporary audience but also will waste your efforts.

  • Presentation: Just like a person, a site’s presentation also should be appealing to gain the interest of fellowmen. As this is the first impression you are going to make with your audience, make it look amazing. The viewers should be encouraged to visit your site again. Write an interesting bio. You can get good-looking websites easily nowadays. So, spend a little to make your website on par with its competitors. Be it you or me or anyone, we will continue to scroll down a site only if it visually interesting enough. So, try not to ignore the presentation. Even the site owner might consider presentation as a serious criterion to allow you to enter their domain. As this not only affects you, it also influences their brand value.

  • Research well before you writes: Research is an important aspect of guest posting. Do thorough research on the topic of content you are going to write about because only attractive content attracts the audience. Look for content that has the potential to attract traffic to your website. Boring content seldom attracts the population.


  • Avoid low-quality websites: Look for high-quality websites. Websites of low quality may tarnish brand value and image. It also will not attract much audience. This will also ruin your trustworthiness among your audience and competitors. The chances for even temporary audiences are low if you guest post on low-quality sites. Try to guest post on medium to high-quality blogs or websites.

  • Qualitative content: Write qualitative content. Your content should not be of any lower quality. Avoid making factual errors, grammatical mistakes, and content flaws. Also, avoid plagiarism. The content must be relevant for a longer-term instead of just a few days, as it will yield you increasing incoming visitors.

  • Follow disciplined rules: Guest posting will allow you to post your site links on other site’s pages. So, make sure the audience who visit your site should feel satisfied to re-visit it. Avoid posting your link multiple times. Maintain your integrity. Make content that is not only beneficial to you, but also for the audience. If your content is interesting, the audience will automatically click your site link. So try not to promote yourself too much.

  • Focus on making an interesting home page: Your website link on the blog owner’s post will land the audience to your site. So, make sure your site is both visually and content-wise appealing, as this is the first step to create a good impression about your site with the visiting audience. Therefore, prepare the landing page well enough to impress your site audience.

  • Measure your result: Guest posting is just like marketing for your company or brand. When you market, you will measure the results achieved through marketing. Similarly, look for the results and measure how much improvement you’ve made. Measure the increased number of consumer traffic. If the results are not what you expected, observe where you went wrong. Correct your mistake the next time. Make improvements.

  • Concept of dual-benefit: You should be determined to work well because your content affects the blog/website owner’s reputation too. Therefore discuss the content with the site owner and make it work for both of you.

  • Do not give up: This is an important point. Do not give up just after one failed attempt. Be patient to try again to gain success. If you find yourself getting de-motivated, it will be quite difficult to continue what you’re doing. So, make sure you follow all the above tips and get on your toes to make guest posting a success.

With guest posting, you will not only improve in the field of business, but also develop a good relationship with your peers and fellow bloggers. You will seek a greater audience for both of your sites. So, keep in mind to give quality content that will serve as a ladder to make you climb up. Create a good image with your amazing work. Keep doing it until you succeed!

18 views0 comments
bottom of page