6 Benefits of Guest Blogging + 9 Tips for Better Guest Blogging

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This is the second post in the series of guest blogging success stories (the first one was by Glen on how he earned 5-figure income with guest blogging). The series is dedicated to my new venture My Blog Guest, the community of guest bloggers. I am building the site where you can build links and your brand completely for free and by providing real quality, so go ahead: join, participate and help me build it!

The following is the guest post by Brian Carter

I’ve written around 300-400 blog posts in the last 5 years. Blogging is cyclic for me; sometimes on my own blogs, sometimes a corporate blog, sometimes on multi-author industry blogs. I love to analyze and theorize, and blogging helps me think through in depth about ideas that occur to me in the course of work. I tend to turn those into lists of useful tips and I try to make them funny. I use quality images (often creative commons attribution license images from flickr) and create my own SmartArt charts and graphs to add value.

I started with my first blog back in 2004 when I was an acupuncturist. Before that I used to write alternative medicine articles for my own static HTML site. Later I created blogs about my original music, basketball, and comedy. I really hit my blogging stride with my AdWords consulting blog in 2005, which has a total of 122 posts. Read on: 6 Benefits of Guest Blogging + 9 Tips for Better Guest Blogging

Blogging | 10 Comments » | 2010-02-02

The Unexplainably Ignored Potential of Canada’s Trademarks Act

*This is a guest post by Gab Goldenberg*

[This is a slightly adapted excerpt from a much longer law school essay I wrote this past summer for on the issue of rebills, those affiliate marketing 'offers' that trick people into signing up for products that will bill them on a recurring basis without their knowledge. The excerpt deals with Canada's Trademarks Act and how the rebills may/not fit under its provisions.

I referred to rebills as 'manufactured consent scams' since they make false claims, such as endorsement or association with well known people or organizations, which lead people to give "consent" which they would not otherwise give. ]

As I explained earlier, the scammers promoting the tangible-product [as opposed to intangibles like money-making schemes such as Google Cash, known colloquially in the affiliate industry as 'biz opps'] offers like acai berry pills, colon cleanse products, resveratrol and so on are notorious for their shameless abuse of others’ trademarks.

Read on: The Unexplainably Ignored Potential of Canada’s Trademarks Act

SEO Ethics | Join the discussion » | 2010-01-20

The Roast of the Silver Surfers

*The following is an awesome guest post by Forrest Whaling, my new friend I found at MyBlogGuest. Psst, if you want to find new blogging friends and exchange cool guest posts like the one below, join MyBlogGuest *

By the age of 8, I should have been keen on the idea that my parents’ generation was doomed. While they barely trusted me to pick out my outfit, I certainly could not trust them with the TV, VCR, or any other device that had buttons and required electricity. I guess I just mistook them for being stubborn at the time. Read on: The Roast of the Silver Surfers

Blogging | 27 Comments » | 2010-01-19

How Guest Blogging Made Me 5-Figures in 2009

The following is the the first post in the series of guest blogging success stories. The series is dedicated to my new venture My Blog Guest, the community of guest bloggers. I am building the site where you can build links and your brand completely for free and by providing real quality, so go ahead: join, participate and help me build it!

The guest post was provided by Glen Allsopp, a talented writer and a well-known blogger who has been building his name by guest blogging.

When I go at new things, I go at them full-force. Naturally, I only take on projects that I’m very passionate about, so the ones I do take on get my absolute attention. When I started a brand new blog mid-way through 2008, things were no different.

The blog I was starting would probably be best defined as a member of the ‘personal development’ niche. A site that helps people with life struggles, productivity, motivation and things like time-management. Something that I was very interested in at the time.

Although I classed myself as a very good internet marketer, I was a total nobody in the personal development niche. I had a new blog and no audience. I decided that instead of going down the usual methods of blog promotion I would try a new strategy to get myself more readers: write blog posts for other sites.

Guest Posts

Guest posts make total sense and provide a winning situation for multiple parties. First of all, the blogger who is accepting a guest post on their site gets free, quality content for their audience. The audience of that blog gets great content to read. The writer of the article gets a link from the post and potentially new subscribers on their site.

As long as the post is of a high quality, everybody wins. Read on: How Guest Blogging Made Me 5-Figures in 2009

Branding, Link Building, Viral Marketing | 32 Comments » | 2010-01-04

How to Watermark Your Images and PDF Files for Brand Awareness and Copyright Protection

Having a couple of hours of free time on the holidays, (instead of having at least some rest) I decided to take time looking for the ways to brand my images and PDfs I spread online.

Basically I was looking for some basic tools that would place a cute watermark on any images I want and I can tell you, finding a really useful and usable tool was not easy.

Anyway, I figured that some of my readers might be interested in that too – so I am sharing my tips here: some free useful watermarking utilities to identify and brand your images and PDF files: Read on: How to Watermark Your Images and PDF Files for Brand Awareness and Copyright Protection

Branding, Website Design | 7 Comments » | 2009-12-29

Getting Excited About SEO Brain Games

Ok, just stumbled across this site allowing to create your own brain games and got a bit obsessed creating SEO-related crosswords, word search games, and puzzles. Here are a few of my quick creations in case you have a minute or two and are wondering how to spend them:

SEO Crossword:

Read on: Getting Excited About SEO Brain Games

SEO Tools | 8 Comments » | 2009-12-05

Announcing MyBlogGuest: Community of Guest Bloggers

It’s no secret I believe in guest blogging as one of the most effective ways to build your brand, broaden your scope and find new audience. In fact, guest blogging is one of my most-often used link building tactic that has helped me get my most valuable links.

My constant quest for new blogs to guest blog for has brought me to one important question: is it possible to unite all bloggers interested in publishing posts by other bloggers and those guest bloggers under one roof? The idea seemed tempting enough: plenty of people are interested in guest blogging to build their network of contacts and promote their sites.

So I decided to go ahead and give it a try; and here it is: MyBlogGuest – currently not really feature-rich (implemented as a simplified forum) but with the concept behind it: join if you want to guest blog!

Want to be my friend?

Then help me by becoming my beta tester: Read on: Announcing MyBlogGuest: Community of Guest Bloggers

SEO Ethics | 17 Comments » | 2009-11-25