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Do you Make These Mistakes When Guest Blogging?

Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune

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Did you know that guest blogging will help you build a good reader base for your blog? If you didn’t, let me tell you that guest blogging is a great way and one of the most used ways to put your blog in front of other bloggers. With that being said, there are certain things (call it mistakes) that you shouldn’t do when you are writing for other blogs.

Getting a guest blogging opportunity is easy nowadays. Many bloggers want to take a day off. They are always willing to let other bloggers write for their blog for a day or two. I’m not meaning freelance writing when I say guest blogging. Freelance writing is not easy to get or let me put it this way: Getting a freelance writing gig is not easy when you are just starting. Coming back to the topic, guest blogging can make you famous in a days time too if you do it properly.

Without further ado, let me point you to the mistakes few guest bloggers do, which you shouldn’t do in your guest blogging opportunity. Even if you have been doing till now, I suggest you not to do so in the future.

1. Big Author Bio
Bloggers allow you to have an author bio at the end of the blog post or at the starting of the blog post. You should take advantage of this. Don’t have a big author bio. Two or three lines will be well enough. You are not asked to write a blog post in the author info, are you? So please reduce the size of your author bio to two or three lines. You can say just:
“(Your name here) is so and so and he gives tips on (your blog’s niche here) in his blog. Feel free to subscribe to his blog”

2. Linking to Affiliate Sites
Many blog owners say upfront that you are not allowed to link to affiliate sites. When you are doing this in your guest post, it will reduce your credibility. Linking to affiliate sites also makes your blog post a blatant promotion. While linking to affiliate sites is a mistake, linking to illegal sites or illegal stuffs is a bigger mistake. When you do this, you will lose the trust of people. Most of the times, especially when the blog owner reviews the guest post before publishing, he/she will remove those links. Even if you escape from him/her, you will be caught by the readers. This way, you are degrading your name and also the blog owner’s name.

3. Poor Formatting of Post
Formatting plays a key role in guest blogging. If your formatting is very poor, 90% of the visitors won’t read your blog post. Without reading your blog post, they can never become your fan. Have a good formatting style. If you don’t have one, visit the top blogs and learn from them. Adding images to the post is a very good habit. A picture is worth a thousand words. But a bad picture with improper formatting is worth 100 negative words about you. Format your blog posts well and also check for grammatical and spelling errors.

Have you ever guest blogged for a blog? If yes, did you do any of the above mistakes? If your answer is yes for this question, don’t worry. Every step is a learning process. In future, be sure not to repeat the mistakes. Please share your guest blogging experience in the comments.

Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune
Posted on March 22nd, 2008 and filed under Blogging
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4 Responses to “Do you Make These Mistakes When Guest Blogging?”

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Mademind says:

March 24, 2008 at 8:54 am

great post. i sometimes also do these mistakes.
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Envelopes says:

August 15, 2008 at 8:41 am

Thanks for the tips. I also sometime make the same mistakes.

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