Guest Blogging? What to do!

Guest blogging what a great concept it is. You have someone who will write a post on your blog, and it will save you some work and you still make money that day. All for just giving one link to the author. The idea of guest blogging is not what i am criticizing, but i am only arguing about the fact how some of the bloggers are implying it on their blog.

I know there are many bloggers who would not mind getting a link from ProBlogger, John Chow, or Shoemoney’s blog by writing a guest post, and i am sure all these blogging professionals wouldn’t mind a guest post because they can do other things rather than writing a post. While Jeremy of Shoemoney doesn’t do that which is why i am a big fan of him, but i am recently noticing John Chow of Johnchow.com allowing alot of guest posts. Now the blog should be renamed to Guestblog.com rather than john chow. That was just a joke. Alot of the guest posts are quality content, but i saw few of them have minor glitches, and as John Chow is posting it on his blog with a john chow name he should atleast proof-read the post and make editions as he goes along.

Not just John, anyone who allows guest blogging on their blog should atleast read the post and make corrections, and just show the corrections in a different colors. Because then it builds credibility to your blog and makes the reader stay on your blog longer and possibly subscribe because they know that you care about your site, and actually have some interest in your readers as well. If there are not corrections just the bloggers thoughts or opinions at the end of the post perhaps a thank you note for the guest blgoger. It just takes your blog a step higher in my eyes if you do that.

I am always open for guest blog posts, but unfortunately i dont have 20,000 subscribers so not many people want to write here, but its ok because i love writing on my own blog. So there is nothing wrong with them, just make sure that the post you are getting is quality and meets your standards. Feel free to reject them and make corrections. Make sure you give the author credibility by mentioning the link to his site and his name.

Let me give an example: This post at John Chow’s website was guest blogged, and it has one of the things which i believe John could’ve edited or write a sidenote. It said that an awful website will make the user remember the website. John could’ve said which i definately don’t recommend doing so or perhaps even remove that step from the list because it is not necessary.

If possible make a separate author as Guest Blogger rather than posting it under your own name saying Syed Balkhi and then in the bottom say this post was guest blogged by …….. Because you don’t want the user to get the wrong impression of you if they didn’t read that post was not written by you. Your site’s impression to your audience is the most important thing. If you can have a good impression on your audience they will stay with you, if not they will not come back.