How To Select A Blog For Guest Posting ?

This is an obvious question, selecting a good blog for guest posting is an important thing to consider because we are looking for quality backlinks which can improve our blog's Google page rank as well as it can generate good traffic for our blog, that also helps in improving the Alexa ranking.

Guest posts affects our blogs SEO in many ways because crawlers can easily find a blog if it is linked in high quality, high traffic blogs and gives them more priority over other blogs.

Guest posting is also helpful for the website owners who are looking to promote their products or any other application. At last we know the fact that we do guest posting for achieving good Google page rank, Alexa rank, for some additional traffic and for showing our online presence. Guest posts also helps us in building good healthy relationship with other bloggers and hence resulting in many other benefits like link exchange, traffic exchange and also in getting some good tips for improving our blogs. Below are some things that a blogger must need to consider while selecting a blog for guest posting.

The blog must have high Google page rank:

Google page rank defines the quality of a blog or website, Google  assumes that the more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites. Google gives the page rank from 1 to 10 on the basis of quality baclinks a blog or website has, Google page rank 1 is the lowest rank for a website whereas Google page rank 10 shows the best rank for a website, so always choose a blog that has page rank at least 3 or 4. This will help you in improving your Google page rank too.

The blog must have high Alexa rank:

Alexa rank defines the traffic of a blog or website, the less the Alexa rank the more traffic a blog is receiving. Today Google and Facebook has Alexa rank 1 and 2 and you can see how much traffic they are getting, so always select a blog which has high Alexa rank. This will get you some additional visitors and also help you in improving Alexa rank of your blog or website.

The blog must be a high traffic blog:

Although Alexa rank defines the traffic for a blog or website but you double check the traffic of the blog on which you are going to submit your guest post because there are many fake ways to improve the Alexa rank of a blog or website.

Check the responsiveness of Admin:

This is also an important thing to consider, always check the responsiveness of the blog owner whose blog you have selected for guest posting. You can do this by checking the comment section or by emailing them asking a query, this will help you to find whether he or she responses to his/her blog visitors. This will help you in faster publishing of your guest post.

Monitor how often he or she publishes a guest post:

Yes, also monitor the blog to see that how often the blog owner publishes a guest post. You can check this by seeing the guest posts section on their blogs. Mainly this step is to check whether the admin is very choosy or easily approves a guest post. So always submit your guest post on high quality blogs that easily approves a guest post. This will prevent you from getting disappointed that no high traffic blog is approving your guest posts.

Also read:

• Why improving Alexa rank is so important ?
• High traffic blogs are not publishing my guest posts - What to do ? (Recommended)