I am sure that you’ve heard about guest blogging. If you have decided to make money online, but haven’t heard of this method before, you’ve gotten to the right place. Keep reading and you will understand not only what the benefits of guest blogging are, but what you should be prepared and willing to do in order to have your article accepted by other blog owners and reap all the benefits of having your content, links and name on someone else’s blog.

Is guest blogging worth it?

Well, to answer this question, let me illustrate it this way. Let’s take two well-known store brands, Wal-Mart and Target for example. Let’s say, Target is allowing Wal-Mart to put some of its items on THEIR shelves. Now, when people buy those items, even though such items are on Target store’s shelf, Wal-Mart store is cashing in. Do you think that Wal-Mart would like such deal? You bet they would!

Guest blogging is exactly the same thing. You are allowed to put YOUR own items (your links) on someone else’s shelf for free! The only price you have to pay is that you need to put one of your nicest items (article) out there, but really that’s a small price to pay to reap more traffic and subscribers as a result. Isn’t it?

In the end, one of the greatest benefits is that you are going to show off on someone else’s blog which in some cases might even be a more up scale than your own. In turn, more targeted traffic will be browsing your blog on a regular basis and join your own list.

But, now let’s see what you need to know to start blogging on someone else’s blog!

6 easy tips to guest blogging

1. Usually, blog owners who will allow you to post on their blog will want your article be of the same niche as their blog theme. Well, this shouldn’t be a surprise. If you have a blog about travels you wouldn’t want articles talking about computers technology would you?

2. You need to keep in mind that to be taken seriously your blog post should be of an acceptable length. Most blog owners will tell you how many words they expect your article to be, but most of them will be OK with 500 to 1000 words. To be sure, somewhere in between these numbers should be fine.

3. Do not even try to publish an article that is not 100% original. This would put you out right from the get go. Your article shouldn’t have been posted anywhere else before. Period.

4. Try to write about a specific theme within the niche of the blog you are writing for. General theme blog posts are usually not welcome, and rejected, especially if it’s one of the specific rules of the blog owner.

5. Most times, you will be allowed to link to your own blog, but you won’t be allowed to link to any kind of affiliate programs. So, start guest blogging only when you have your site or blog ready.

6. Guest blogging means that you have to make double sure that your article is written in very good English with no grammar or spelling errors. You will need to put your editing hat on a few times before you submit your blog post.

There are other specifics that you might have to follow according to the particular blog owner’s rules. However, all the specifics should be well described on their registration page and if you follow them well, you should have no problem having your article posted on their blog and reap all the benefits from it.

If you want to promote your blog, increase your readership and subscriptions, you can write for my blog at Persuasive Article Marketing.

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1. Free Up Your Time - Hiring a VA can help you pass off various tasks to others so that you can concentrate on the money makers in your business rather than tedious tasks you don’t want to do, but are still essential to a well run business. Virtual Assistants may offer a variety of skills such as bookkeeping, customer service, uploading information to your website, posting blog posts, article marketing and many, many others.

2. Business Building Strategy – Hiring a Virtual Assistant can help you take your business to the next level. It does not matter if you have a bricks and mortar business, or a solely online business, you can still hire a VA to do various tasks that either you find tedious, or that you don’t know how to do well. You could be holding yourself back from having a successful business if you don’t let go of some of these activities by assigning them to a Virtual Assistant.

3. Saving You Money - When you hire a Virtual Assistant you only pay for the actual time spent on your tasks, not benefits, breaks, or extra taxes. In fact, everything you pay your VA is a deductible business expense, dollar for dollar. You don’t even pay for training because a VA is an expert in his or her niche. Virtual Assistants can be terrific resources regarding technology and business organization so take advantage of that fact by asking your VA for advice regarding various aspects of your business.

4. Supporting Another Business Owner - When you hire a VA, you are helping to support a small business owner. Most Virtual Assistants are independent business owners in their own right. Their Virtual Assistant business is an income stream, possibly to help subsidize, or support their own family – just as your business is for you. Hiring a VA is a win/win situation for both of you.

5. Peace of Mind - The very best reason to hire a Virtual Assistant is the time savings and freedom that you will experience due to outsourcing some of your tasks to a VA. You will once again regain your nights for movies and family, your weekends for time with your spouse and your friends all without even one employee being on the payroll. Instead, you’ll have an assistant who will be conducting these tasks on your behalf and cares about your return on investment because if you’re successful they are successful.

As you see, hiring an experienced and dependable virtual assistant to help you run your business, or manage your blog can pay off in many ways. You’ll have more time for family, or other money making activities, and if you play your cards right you’ll have one or more experts at your finger tips to help make your business more successful than you ever imagined.

Thinking about hiring a Virtual Assistant. I offer several VA services to help online business owners get back to building their business. I enjoy doing what others might consider “the meniil tasks”. Lets see what I can do for you!

Now you know how it works, why is it so important? For one, many feed readers and browsers already support auto discovery RSS feeds. But perhaps what’s more important, Microsoft is incorporating this starting with Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer still commands a good chunk of browser share out there, especially those who are new to the Internet or non technical Internet users. If your RSS feeds are not auto discovery enabled, it’s a good chance you’ll lose out on a bunch of subscribers.

As it is today, browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari can auto discover feeds. Many use this to subscribe because it’s just so much easier. While this group may not be that large but why should you not take advantage? If just making your feeds auto discovery friendly you get an extra subscriber, even if it’s only one it would be worth it because it costs nothing but maybe 2 minutes of your time.

So how do you find out if your feeds are auto discovery friendly? The good news is, if you’re using a blog to manage your content, many have this feature built in. But it doesn’t hurt to just check it anyway. If you don’t use a blog, chances are, your feed is not auto discovery enabled.

Before I go, here are two little tips that would help your RSS distribution and subscription using auto discovery.

1. Put the auto discovery tag in other web pages too. Just because it’s not a blog doesn’t mean you can’t have an RSS feed on it. Take advantage of that, put your feed in your main website’s template. Now you have two opportunities to get in touch with people. When you update your website and when you update your blog.

2. If you use a service like FeedBurner to track your subscriptions, remember to update the feed URL in your blog or website template. This way, you’re capturing all your feed traffic statistics.

What’s next? Go make your RSS feeds auto discovery friendly right now. Because RSS is not always visible to us, don’t run the risk of forgetting this.

About the author

Lynette Chandler helps entreprenuers leverage readily available technology for their marketing. Learn more about RSS and blogging at TechBasedPlugins.com