How do you guys find guest posting opportunities?

Just incase anyone finds this handy I wrote this list a while back.

  • accepting guest posters
  • accepting guest posts
  • articles wanted
  • become a contributor
  • become a guest blogger
  • become an author
  • become guest writer
  • blog for us
  • contribute to our site
  • contributing writer
  • contributor guidelines
  • guest article
  • guest author
  • guest blogger
  • guest column
  • guest post courtesy of
  • guest post opportunities
  • guest poster wanted
  • guest posters wanted
  • guest posting guidelines
  • guest posts
  • guest posts wanted
  • looking for guest posts
  • submit an article
  • submit article
  • submit blog post
  • submit content
  • submit guest post
  • submit post
  • submit your content
  • suggest a post
  • this is a guest post by
  • this post was written by
  • want to contribute to our website
  • want to write a post
  • want to write an article
  • want to write for
  • write for us
  • writers wanted

I get requests for people to "guest post" on my sites now and then and have none of that kind of content on my sites. I actually just got one the other day that surprised me.

I'm not saying that what you posted is invalid but my guess is that the requests come because they see my sites have some value (really, they see me as offing value to an industry? must be LSD infused).

There are free and paid lists of guest posting sites (@back2form has those) and I imagine there are plenty of places those can be found.
 
Just incase anyone finds this handy I wrote this list a while back.

  • accepting guest posters
  • accepting guest posts
  • articles wanted
  • become a contributor
  • become a guest blogger
  • become an author
  • become guest writer
  • blog for us
  • contribute to our site
  • contributing writer
  • contributor guidelines
  • guest article
  • guest author
  • guest blogger
  • guest column
  • guest post courtesy of
  • guest post opportunities
  • guest poster wanted
  • guest posters wanted
  • guest posting guidelines
  • guest posts
  • guest posts wanted
  • looking for guest posts
  • submit an article
  • submit article
  • submit blog post
  • submit content
  • submit guest post
  • submit post
  • submit your content
  • suggest a post
  • this is a guest post by
  • this post was written by
  • want to contribute to our website
  • want to write a post
  • want to write an article
  • want to write for
  • write for us
  • writers wanted

Also an issue with a list like this, is you are leaving somewhat of a footprint.
 
Personally, I just send out a lot of requests to guest post, often people are more than willing to help out.
 
@jamie3000
  • accepting guest posters
  • accepting guest posts
  • articles wanted
  • become a contributor
  • become a guest blogger
  • become an author
  • become guest writer
  • blog for us
  • contribute to our site
  • contributing writer
  • contributor guidelines
  • guest article
  • guest author
  • guest blogger
  • guest column
  • guest post courtesy of
  • guest post opportunities
  • guest poster wanted
  • guest posters wanted
  • guest posting guidelines
  • guest posts
  • guest posts wanted
  • looking for guest posts
  • submit an article
  • submit article
  • submit blog post
  • submit content
  • submit guest post
  • submit post
  • submit your content
  • suggest a post
  • this is a guest post by
  • this post was written by
  • want to contribute to our website
  • want to write a post
  • want to write an article
  • want to write for
  • write for us
  • writers wanted

Marked with Red isn't good practice.

The Above List is just Fine, But this won't work for Niche targeted guest blogs.
I recommend you to Use advanced search queries that seek quality.

The following search queries will seek out light footprints of guest bloggers by finding authors that were introduced as a guest blogger on a website. This works excellent. You’ll also notice these types of websites are usually quality brands and have higher authority.

keyword “guest post by”

keyword “guest post written by”

keyword “guest author today”

DO NOT USE these advanced search queries:

Many guest blogging "guides" will tell you to use these types of search queries to find guest blogging opportunities. These kinds of queries are simply looking for easy, low-barrier-of-entry guest blogging opportunities (use at your own risk):

keyword + intitle:”Submit blog post”

intitle:”write for us”

intitle:”Submit an article”

intitle:“Suggest a guest post”

intitle:“Send a guest post”

intitle:“Write for us”


Sites that have a page dedicated to "write for us," "become a contributor" or "guest blogging" are usually not high-quality sites.

These are sites that are leaving blatant guest blogging footprints, and they get hit up around-the-clock by clueless companies, off-shore agencies and spammy websites trying to get exact-match anchor texts in their author by-lines.

Use the "Twitter Love Technique" to find guest blogs

When you are a writer and pushing out decent amounts of quality content, you should be getting hundreds of Twitter shares.

As an example, If your guest post 85 Twitter shares. Another one had 262 Twitter shares. This gives you 347 opportunities.

In other words, search your blog title in Twitter and investigate the people who tweeted out your work. Remember, they already vouched for your writing by giving your article a social share, so confidently approach them with a quick reply. I have landed guest spots on large agencies and publications because of this approach.

Something like this works well: @twitterhandle appreciate the share, I’d be up for the challenge to write on [site name] sometime…later
For more info

Closing thoughts :

You can find guest posting opportunities based on your niche / product / service - if done correctly.

Thankful :
@BassTrackerBoats for mentioning @back2form aka back to form
 
I do something different to the footprints mentioned above. I won't state which ones I use, as that's giving a blueprint. All I'll say is this: You also want to be contacting websites who perhaps don't even know what a guest post is!

I'd much prefer my links to appear on a website who isn't publically open to guest posts, than those who are. And I certainly make it clear that I won't have any author bio - it's just a link to one of my articles with is informative, just as when people link to Wikipedia.

I'll perhaps write my own guide, once I've perfected my plan. At the moment, I've been sending out around 1000 each week and absolutely snowed under with replies from people interested. Currently getting 1 guest post published per day and I outsource my writing. But the aim is to get 10+ 'guest posts' added daily.

Scrapebox is your friend.
 
I tried guest posting, i noticed that majority of the sites ask for a fee ranging from $15 upwards.. I wonder if that normal..i havnt yet found anyone accepting guest posts for free.. though i havnt done this for too long
 
I tried guest posting, i noticed that majority of the sites ask for a fee ranging from $15 upwards.. I wonder if that normal..i havnt yet found anyone accepting guest posts for free.. though i havnt done this for too long

For me I wouldn't say it's most, but I just add something in my message to them, asking them to ignore it, if they charge.

You can split the results into groups, depending on metrics. In the message to lower metrics, ask the person you're contacting to igmore the message if they charge. For the best domains, let them name their price.

Personally, I ignore any that charge. You're already giving them what should be a well-written article. If they're charging money as well, forget them and move on.

If you do this right, you won't need to pay anybody for any guest post.
 
I tried guest posting, i noticed that majority of the sites ask for a fee ranging from $15 upwards.. I wonder if that normal..i havnt yet found anyone accepting guest posts for free.. though i havnt done this for too long

You can't post on any of my sites for free and get a backlink.

Fair is fair.

Business is business.

You want from me on a business site, you pay to play.
 
Find an infographic posted by your competitor. Take the image url of that infographic and do a reverse image search on Google. Then you will find all the sites which you can do guest post.
 
I use some cool tools, writer, and a VA to make guest posting a real viable solution to getting links. I manage to get around 60-80 guest posts a month and 4-500 sponsored post opportunities from 4000 raw bits of data, but only 50% are worth their weight in gold.

Step 1. Hire a VA ($2 an hour)
Step 2. Use Ahrefs to gather websites in your niche (VA).
Step 3. Create a couple Email templates and see which one works best.
Step 4. Input this gathered data once filtered into buzzstream. I like to add some tags like "name", "website" and "post title". The later is for giving them an ego stroke with a comment about how their article "bla bla blah..." is amazing and how it made you wanna reach out etc (VA). Personalize as much a possible and make sure to add in their website into the email template, so later on it makes your life easier!
Step 5. Send Emails (500 in an hour can easily be done - VA). I find sending emails on a Monday works best!
Step 6. Reply and sort out between guest posts and sponsored posts. I create a shit load of parent-child folders in my inbox to make management easy, but buzzstream's built-in platform can do it for you also.

The Costs

VA - $40-$80 a Week
Buzzstream - $24 for the starter pack a month and allows 1000 contacts, 50 discovery results per search, and 30 prospect searches. So, basically you'll need to make sure you are only adding quality leads into Buzzstream, otherwise, you'll need to upgrade to the "group" at $99 a month which gives you 25,000 contacts.
Content - $2 per hundred words, so make sure to limit the word count. Most people accept 400 words, but I usually aim for 600. I also try to ensure they get a low competition keyword in the title so the article ranks. SEO 2018 is all about keyword/traffic/niche when getting a guest post. I find that gives you the required seo juice. Gash-titles are a waste and that's why the PBN boys are moving to titles that have organic searches in their article titles.
 
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I have loads of custom tutorials I used to help explain to my staff how to do this, so if anyone wants one I can send a link - you might find it helpful to learn the process quicker.

Post them here please.
 
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What about the quality of the articles?

Im just wondering if its ok to hire a writer whose first language is not English. .cause they are cheaper most of the time
 
I found this site after someone added my site there - https://writeforus.io/

I'd suggest finding your own. As they are publicly shown, they're likely to be spammed - especially now you've posted it on here, too.

Much better to find sites that don't openly accept guest posts, but like your writing and are happy to add a link back.


What about the quality of the articles?

Im just wondering if its ok to hire a writer whose first language is not English. .cause they are cheaper most of the time

I wouldn't. Not unless you go through, proof read it, and fix all the errors and rewrite the bits that don't read correctly.
 
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