My Guest-Post Research

I've been doing some reading on the net, trying to find ways to promote the blogs I've worked so very hard on building. I have hundreds of well-written, good sized articles which provide step-by-step help, and solid information to readers.

my popular blog

I don't think my blogs are doing the best they can for me. I think they should have a higher Google rating because many of my articles are now in the first page of Google searches.  Consequently, I've been trying to find out what else I can do - with my limited technical skill and time - to correct this. The term that pops up in almost every article I've read is 'guest posting' Guest posting is supposed to be the current big thing - the top rated activity to widen your readership and build solid back-links. So I did a few to prove its worth!

I sacrificed the already limited time I have to spend on my own blogs to create interesting articles on some highly-rated sites in my niche. I thought long and hard about what would fit in nicely with their themes and applied to write for them.

I knew I wasn't being paid for my time or effort. However, I felt that the exposure and back-links I'd heard so much about would be definitely worth the sacrifice. You'd be pleased to know I was successful and here are the wonderful fruits of my labour. The first two are essential blogging tips/information, the third one is mainly to do with writers and Facebook layouts.  The last is for fun. Let me know what you think. I'll give these a month to stew, then I'll come back to you with my findings. Stick around and subscribe to this blog if you haven't already done so. Wish me luck!

5 Reasons Why Blogging is Like Parenting at ComLuv Network

5 Tricks Master Bloggers Use To Make Every Post Popular at Blogger Sentral

Why Facebook Isn't Completely Crap at Blog Critics (Technorati site)

Strange Death, Anyone?  at Kuriositas



UPDATE: THE GUEST POST RESULTS ARE HERE.

5 Ways ComLuv Can Improve Your Blog

29th May, 2011



I was quite wary at first when I heard about ComLuv. For those who do not know what it is, have a look at this article. When I started to use ComLuv and visited their site, it didn't take me long to work out the benefits I would reap from it. Here's what I found.

ComLuv - everyone wins!

More commentators

With ComLuv on your site, your commentators can clearly see that they benefit from commenting on your blog. This encourages more visitors to leave comments because the title of one of their posts appears on your blog under the comment. These titles are totally linkable and do-follow. This means you're giving your friends a legal way to advertise their posts on your blog. But this is a benefit for them. What about the benefits for you?



Link advantages for you on a PR6 site

Many top articles about how to attract traffic to your site will tell you one of the best ways to do so is to build back links. When you join ComLuv you create a profile page. You're allowed a link to your main blog (if you want extra links you have to pay for them with credits you can earn). ComLuv is a PR6 site, this means you get link juice from a site Google has rated highly indeed.



More chances for linking your articles

One of the best ways of getting your articles and links out there is by leaving comments on other blogs. But not just any blog. Links are worth more if they come from blogs in your niche.  Many of us don't have the time to search the web for blogs like these. However, ComLuv enables you to put in a search for any topic. You're then given results of all the listed ComLuv blogs in your niche. When you have the time, you can then leave comments on these blogs and get your do-follow links on them. This opens up new avenues, new visitors and potentially new subscribers. Not to mention additional traffic. Benefit to you and your blog? Betcha!



Guest post

Most big-time bloggers will tell you that guest-posting is the current number one way of building backlinks to your site. Guest post on ComLuv's main site and you're allowed a back-link to your site at the end of the article. Best of all, you get credits for your guest posts. Use your credits to buy extra links for your other sites or featured site spots on their front page. All you need to guest post (the guide) is on the site.





Barcode labels 

What do barcode labels have to do with your blog? Your site is only one in an ocean of other sites. Not everyone on the web is interested in what you write.  If you walked into a big supermarket, you'll find all the items on sale bearing a specific barcode. This is so that the workers can identify the product and the specific price. One of the benefits to commenting on other ComLuv enabled sites is that your blog gets noticed in the right genres and gets placed within the right group. People who're actually interested in what you write about will have a better chance of finding you.



Buy Featured Site spots

Use credits you earn to buy Featured Site spots on the home page of ComLuv's (Google rated -Pr6) for extra traffic to your blogs. This is a great advantage to people who don't have the time to build backlinks.



But I have to sign in...

Many people don't like signing into your blog before leaving a comment. This can be the one disadvantage of ComLuv. The thing is, it only requires the commentator signing in once. This is for their blog's url to be fetched, so that their recent blog title can show up. It's really a tiny price to pay to (legally) get links to your posts out there. 

Visit the ComLuv Site  and start getting your own link juice!