What is guest blogging and how to start it?

Guest posting means writing and publishing an article on someone else’s website or blog. The author of the article essentially requests his article to be hosted on another person’s/company’s site, free of charge, with the expectation that a well-written, informative, and/or entertaining post can spike a lot of traffic to both the author’s and the host’s site. By doing guest posting you can get backlinks from different domains. Guest Posting is very beneficial in link building work. Specially after penguin update, blogs and forums are becomes best way to get backlinks.

Guest posting is a method used by bloggers to increase blog traffic where bloggers write posts to be published on other bloggers' blogs.

Guest posting can work in one of two ways:

- You write a post to appear on another person's blog
- Another person writes a post to appear on your blog

Both are very important for you to approach a wide audience base. It helps you in building your reputation and generating traffic for your blog.

As it is clear above what is Guest Blogging, now the question is How to Guest Blog?

1-Find your top 20 Competitors in your niche
2-Write a cover letter explaining who you are
3-Contact all 20 competing blogs
4-Write posts for the blogs that respond
5-Give sample blog titles to blog owners for approval
6-Write 1,000-2,000 word posts
7-Write incredibly engaging posts
8-Once posts are published, respond to all comments for at least a month