Free Writer

I'm working on SEO for my website (an established local business), and I've had a writer reach out to me offering to write a few articles free of charge for publication on my blog. I don't respond to unsolicited requests usually (lots of PBN sellers hit my email inbox), but I've never come across a similar writing offer? Scam?

It sounds like a guest post request. The writer will post an article with a backlink to his site. I get a lot of such requests on some of my sites. If you want to accept such requests, create a guest post policy page and add terms. You can also charge a fee for guest posts if you have good authority.

Gotcha, that makes sense!