The Blogosphere Topic of the Moment: Guest Posts

September 22, 2010

Apple Keyboard, on Flickr by Declan JewellWowie zowie. Sometimes the blogosphere (or at least the teeny tiny piece of it that I monitor) seems to blow up about the same topic all at once. Perhaps it’s like some blogger, mind-reading thing? Or maybe they get together in secret and plan it out? Who knows.

What I do know, though, is that a couple weeks ago several high-profile business/blogging/social media bloggers all published on the same topic:

Guest Posts.

Many of you know how much of a fan I am of guest posts. I think, hands down, that they are the #1 way to increase traffic, reach new audiences, and build your brand. Both for the blogger hosting the post and the blogger contributing the post.

Which reminds me, who wants free content? Contact me here if you’re up for it. :)

Side note: yes, I do have a project in the works, a web-app of sorts, that relates specifically to guest-posting. (Coming soon.) Because of this I am probably more sensitive and observant to catching discussions about it. So, in the spirit of full disclosure, am I writing about this topic now because I felt strongly about guest posting before or because it relates to one of my new projects? Probably a bit of both.

Scan the following posts and form your own opinions on the topic, whatever they might be. Promise me, though, that you will at least educate yourself by reading the viewpoints of some of the uber-successful.

Yup, it’s that important.

Escape Your Blog To Grow It, by Chris Garrett blogger & internet marketing consultant, co-author of ProBlogger

Guest Posts and Traffic, by Chris Brogan President of New Marketing Labs, #2 ranked blogger from AdAge’s Power 150

Diary of a Wimpy Blogger, by Stanford Smith VP of Marketing at Fluency Media, blogger at Pushing Social

Thoughts?

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  • http://www.tylerandmimiford.com Tyler Ford

    Thanks for being a guest author on our blog!

    • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

      Thanks, Tyler, I have a follow-up post in the works about this same topic that mentions a few of the blogs I've guested on recently. Yours included. :)

  • http://www.CampingGearTV.com Josh Turner

    I noticed the “guest post” theme gaining a buzz lately too. It seems to be related to that dude's e-book on the topic. Appears that he has latched on to some high profile affiliates.

    • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

      I agree, Josh. I keep running into more and more posts as the days go on, interesting…

      Thanks for stopping by!

  • http://twitter.com/CheckAdvantage Check Advantage

    Yeah when is that Chocolate Peanut Butter thingamajig gonna get going? I saw the Ren Men Video where you announced it and signed up right away – haven't heard anything yet. Sounds interesting, but my SEO focused co-worker is concerned Google could put the kibosh on something like that.

    • http://www.anniesorensen.com Annie Sorensen

      Hey, thanks for asking about PBC. The project is on hold at the moment, simply because the co-founders are busy with other businesses. :) We'll keep you updated and let you know the moment it officially launches…thank you, for the time being, for submitting your request!

      Appreciate you stopping by.

      • http://twitter.com/CheckAdvantage Check Advantage

        Cool – I'm looking forward to it.

        My dilemma is that I write for a company's blog instead of my own info-marketing type blog. Even though I've got good content to share, most info-marketing bloggers only see us as an opportunity for advertising money. But that's only because I'm selling a commodity instead of eBooks and training programs.

        I realize that most blogs connected to a company are usually on the spammy bottom scraping side of things. However, there are decent blogs like ours out there as well.

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