I had a great question come via email the other day which I answered then forgot about until the same question came up again. So it got me thinking that maybe more of you would just like to know.
How To Maximise The Exposure of Your Written Guest Blog Posts
Great question!
There are a few ways …
4 Ways to Maximise Exposure of Your Written Guest Blog Posts:
- A Published Articles Page: I use mine to link back to guest blog posts and/or articles I have written including my monthly Britmums Round-up. I also add jpegs of magazine articles (always ask the journo for a PDF copy of any articles as you can easily make a jpeg and then create a gallery) and any graphics designed to promote my content or Q&A sessions I do, like the Aldermore example below. A published articles page is a really good way to collate all your hard work in one place. Not only is this good for SEO as it’s rich in backlinks, but it helps to provide examples of all your work to potential collaborators. If you are writing guest blog posts in order to become an expert in your genre then a published articles page will do just that.
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— Aldermore Bank (@AldermoreBank) October 7, 2016
- Your Own Blog: There is no reason you can’t use the same article on your own website however Google doesn’t like duplicate content so ensure you either state it was published …. here first with a backlink or change 25% of the content. I personally add a new introduction and the conclusion states it was published somewhere else first. This technique is useful as 1) it populates your own blog and 2) if a website shuts down then you haven’t lost a great article/guest post.
- LinkedIn: I don’t use this platform enough but LinkedIn is great for repurposing blog content as long as you remember to say that it was originally published on …. they you are good to go. This is a great way of reaching a new audience with the same article.
- Screenshots: Some people choose to have a page of screenshots or add images in their blog sidebars.
- Linkback: Others choose to link to guest blog posts/articles on their own blog posts of the same genre, just as you usually would deep-link to other content you have written within your site.
Personally, I would always suggest a published article page as this increases your ‘expertness‘ and provides you with a really comprehensive list of guest blog posts, magazine contributions and acts as a portfolio when pitching for work.
Would love to hear your opinions too if you have another way to do it.
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Thanks Joanne – I was wondering what to do! 🙂
glad to have been of help
http://mumsdaword.blogspot.com/2011/04/food-for-thought-from-selection-of.html glad to see this post featured here 🙂
Good advice. I also add my guest posts to StumbleUpon (I’m Helen Lindop on StumbleUpon if you fancy connecting?) and that brings in a few more visitors to my blog.
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Some great tips there a screen shot is great and I would imagine that works particularly well for driving traffic from Facebook. A ‘Published Articles’ page is also a fab tip.
thank you glad you found them useful 🙂
This is a great tip. I am wondering how I can incorporate my guest posts into my website etc. Not sure how best to set up the page for them, but this has given me a few ideas, much appreciated.
It hadn’t even occured to me to do this until you suggested it. I think a published articles page make you look very professional. Here’s my page so far. I’m hoping to grow it this year even further.
Thank you for all the tips.
https://madebymeparties.co.uk/about/published-articles/