As we wrote in our previous articles related to guest blogging, this practice is probably the best method for not only getting some high-quality backlinks to your website (with the appropriate anchor text) but also a long-term strategy for increasing brand-awareness. Many webmasters are facing difficulties when searching for new blogs where they can write so here are x tips for making your life easier.

1.      Use search operators

This is probably the easiest way for finding laser targeted blogs accepting (inviting) other bloggers to write content for them. The best way for doing this is first looking for how other websites use keywords in URLs and try to create search operators based on them. Example:

“web design” inurl:guest bloggers wanted

“website design” inurl:write for us

“web design” “this article was written by”

Of course, there are many other operators you can put in practice for finding blogs inviting webmasters to write content for them, in exchange of a link back.

2.      Yet again, Google

Although the first method is brilliant for going straight to the blogs offering guest posting opportunities, obviously there are many other industry blogs that accept guest posts but they cannot be traced with search operators. Create a list with the top blogs in your niche, write a nice email and contact blog owners for a guest post. You will have a surprise…

3.      Blogrolls

So you have written dozens of guest posts for different industry blogs, now what? Should you stop here or continue searching for other opportunities? The best way for continuing this strategy is to check out what other websites are listed in blogrolls. Usually they will also accept guest posts and if not, well, it definitely worth a try.

Following our latest article regarding how to get more content ideas for your blog, here comes this blog post as an answer to “is it enough to just publish content and leave it like that?”.  Basically, one of the major problems today bloggers are facing is the fact that after publishing a certain article they are just leaving it like that, which is totally wrong.

Here are some great tips to get more exposure for your posts and also get them ranked higher in the search engines:

1. Social bookmarking

Always do some social bookmarking on your blog posts. Whether you are doing a Digg/StumbleUpon or even using automation tools for this, social bookmarking is still a great way to expose your posts and also add some value when it comes to search engine optimisation. Not only that but a potential 1^st page of Digg could bring you thousands of visitors in hours.

2. Blog comments

There are several blogs using “Keyword Luv” – a platform that allows users to highlight their latest blog posts only by adding a comment. It is definitely a great way to add some link juice to your newly launched posts, most of the times using your desired title for the articles.

3. Online discussions

Most of the time you will notice lots of community forums ranking higher than you for a certain title/phrase. One of the best tips for outranking them is to actually register, contribute to the forum without spamming it and once you can add signatures just add a simple reply to the very thread that ranks high thus getting a valuable backlink to your blog post. You are getting much more value than anything because that site is ranked due to its authority and once you have received the link from signature a piece of that authority will be passed upon your site/blog post.

Writing interesting and unique content on your personal/corporate blog is not only a great method for dealing with the latest Google algorithm change (Panda/Farmer) but also the key for getting more targeted readers by answering to their questions and queries. There are many ways of getting new ideas for future articles, this article will talk about some of them, maybe the easiest and more popular ones.

1.      Forums

There isn’t any niche that does not have a handful of community forums where users are engaging in discussions related to your industry. Most of them are asking questions, others are creating interesting threads on your topic and by only taking a closer look on what are the trends on forums you can get lots of new ideas to create content on your blog.

2.      Industry blogs

No, this does not mean copying the ideas and re-hashing some articles but many ideas can come just from reading the comments on different blog posts. Usually people are interacting on blogs with questions or by adding value with their responses, you can easily build articles based on what they are discussing about.

3.      Q & A websites

These are probably the best places to generate content ideas from. Websites like Yahoo Answers hold a great value when it comes to real people asking different questions so start browsing through your niche and get some mind-blowing ideas that answer to many people questions.

4.      Social bookmarking sites

Although they are not as popular as they were before, social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon still carry a lot of value when it comes to seeing what topics are of interest in a specific niche. As for the other methods above, just search for your keyword and see what is more popular when it comes to related blogposts/articles.