As the blogger, I would like to start asking others to write guest articles on my site. Am I better off doing that or trying something along the lines of an interview? Do you have thoughts what would cause a better response?

The first thing to understand is that guest blogging only works when it is a win-win-win situation. That is: the blog owner wins because he gets quality content written for his blog, the guest blogger wins because he gets a chance to expose his work to a new audience, and the readers win because they get to read fresh content with different perspectives.

If you want people to guest blog on your website, therefore, you need to make sure that they will gain something out of it. Usually the “something” is traffic and a quality backlink. You can ask people by email whether or not they are interested in guest blogging for you, but I would only approach those with blogs smaller than yours (both in terms of audience and authority), else you would be removing one “win” from the equation.

A solid approach to find guest bloggers is to leverage your own blog. For example, you could write a post letting your readers know that you are accepting guest posts, or even create a special “Write for Us” page and link to it from the menu or from the sidebar.

If your blog is small, you can add some perks to guest bloggers, to make it more appealing to them. Those could be:

• a dedicated page with a profile of all guest bloggers,
• a section on the homepage with a link to all guest bloggers, and
• a detailed biography and picture at the bottom of guest posts.

As for interviews, I do believe it is easier to land them, especially when your blog is not that large. Why is that? Because answering to an interview is easier and usually faster than writing a guest post. Additionally, the interview puts the other person under the spotlight, which can be another motivation.

How Do I Get Others to Guest Blog on My Blog?

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If nothing else I also think that we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and try Bing out. Competition is healthy in any market, and Google is not far from having a monopoly in search (thanks to the quality of its service, it is true, but still).

One good move from Microsoft was to opt for a clean homepage. I can’t stand Yahoo! exactly because in order to search there I need to go across all the clutter that they put on the front page.

The problem are the search results. They might need some time to tweak the algorithm, but so far it has not impressed me at all. Here are some examples that I gathered in five minutes before writing this post:

1. Searched for “blog tips”

Daily Blog Tips is number one on Google and Yahoo! for that term, but on Bing it was no where to be found. Problogger should be there too, but I couldn’t find it either.

2. Searched for “john chow”

The original John Chow was not there, and instead the first result pointed to a squatter domain (www.john-chow.com) that just has some ads….

3. Searched for “stuntdubl”

I wanted to give Bing a nudge, so I searched for the exact name of Todd Malicoat’s blog (he is a top SEO guy, and the blog is pretty famous too). Still Bing displayed Todd’s blog only in the fifth position.

For now, therefore, I am sticking with good old Google.

What about you, have you tried Bing? What kind of results did you get?

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First, Web content to increase in the key words.
Keywords 1.URL appear (in English, the Chinese also have a role in Pinyin)

2. Page title, keywords tag, description tag appeared Keywords

Keyword here appears to be natural, not keyword stuffing.

3. The content of naturally occurring Keywords

Can be very natural to add some keywords up.

4. The first and the last paragraph of the content appeared Keywords

Page top and bottom of the page are some good keywords, you can look at this website.
5.H1, H2 tags appear Keywords

6. Export link anchor text contains keywords

7. Picture of the file name that contains keywords, ALT attributes arise Keywords

ALT attributes to good use, but also conducive to the top.

8. Key words density 2-8% (this is different)

I think that about 3% better in general. Of course there are different requirements for different stations.

9. Of words bold or italic

10. With a comment function, comments appeared

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1. The first one will scan all your posts and pages looking for links, and it will add a tracking code to each of them so that you will be able to track the clicks.

2. The second function can be used if you want to create an individual trackable link, for instance to use with sponsors or affiliates.

I was concerned that the plugin could change the structure of the links and mess up with the SEO, but Eric Lamb, the author told me that it only uses an “onclick” Ajax element to track the clicks.

Once you have the plugin running, you will be able to see a wide range of reports, including the top referrers, the number of clicks on each link, the most clicked links by day and hour and so on. It is worth a look.

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