Getting Contributors For Your Site
Day 46 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
As your blog grows you will likely find more and more demands on your time. You may want to start a new blog. You may want to spend more time working on monetizing your site and generating traffic, and less on generating content. However it is content that makes the blogging world tick. If you stop putting up quality posts to your site people will stop coming.
What’s the Solution?
One easy solution to continuing to put up quality content and saving yourself time is to get a guest blogger to help contribute articles to your site. Guest bloggers will work for either money or traffic, so if you have either one that you are willing to share, you can get some quality articles for your site.
What are some tips on publishing Contributing Authors
- Verify that it not duplicate content - For the first couple of posts that you publish from a specific person, run a check on a couple of key phrases to make sure it isn’t already published elsewhere on the internet. You don’t want to screw yourself by putting up some duplicate content.
- Give it a proof read - You may be surprised how little editing goes into blogs. And anything that goes up on your blog reflects on you. Many times I have seen guest posts no blogs and read the comments. The commentators often have no idea that it was a guest posts, and just attribute it to the main site author.
- Give Credit - You want to continue to get articles from your contributing articles. So make sure that you give credit where credit is due. Give them a prominent link so make sure they get some traffic to their blog. This will make them more inclined to give you more content in the future.
So How Can you get guest bloggers?
Getting guest bloggers isn’t easy. You have to be able to offer something to the people writing for your site. However here are some tips to make it easier.
- PR is important - People judge a site by its Page Rank. If people are looking at contributing to your site they will most likely evaluate whether or not they will get any search engine rankings out of it. If they won’t then they won’t contribute. So if you are having trouble getting contributing authors, wait till the next PR update and you might fair better.
- Guest Blogger - Guest blogger is a site where blogs can ask for guest bloggers, and people who are looking to contribute posts can find blogs to post on. How well it works as a marketplace is still up in the air, so if you use it be sure to let me know
- Ask For Guest Posts - If you want guest posts, make sure that you have a link on your site letting people know. Direct them to a page where you ask for guest posts, and inform them how they contribute. Be sure to let them know if you will take control of they content or whether or not they will retain ownership. After all, your site may not seem that big to you, but a newbie may be looking to guest post anywhere to get some links. Be sure to give them the option.
on July 10th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
This is something I’ve just started to try out. Fortunately my blog is already pretty big, so several posts came in initially, a couple were even really good. Hopefully it keeps up.
on July 10th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Congrats on the posts
I have seen a couple of the bigger sites like John Chow, Problogger and Daily Blog tips really start doing this. I assume that if it is effective for them it can work for us too
on February 10th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I’m gonna start trying this out. Thanks!
on May 13th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Yes I would have to agree with Murphyluvsrussia, not about her being b!tchyest since I have not yet seen that side of her or her serve sucking, but on the other two accounts certainly.
on July 21st, 2009 at 7:31 am
Your not always going to get the correct answer, I think top contributers are that because they answer lots of questions, not because they actually know anything.
on July 21st, 2009 at 7:32 am
A major reason is because a lot of the posters here are very young, and young people typically haven’t learned good grammar and spelling skills yet, let alone style and reasoning. You can probably chalk up the rest of it to either laziness or ignorance.
on July 21st, 2009 at 7:32 am
i do sometimes wonder if other people have made up accounts just so they can vote for themselves when questions they’ve answered go into voting.
on July 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 pm
hey thanx, this will be very helpfull for me, i am starting a new blog, i will put it on later.
on September 1st, 2009 at 5:31 am
All those tips are true. I can believe that making blog popular in 100 days is possible.
on September 7th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Is Guest Blogger a free source to find bloggers willing to volunteer there work?
on September 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 am
yes getting a guest blogger, you need need a high PR and also high alexa ranking
on October 10th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
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on October 13th, 2009 at 2:48 am
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on October 22nd, 2009 at 3:04 am
The Githongo depicted here is hardly all saint and no sinner. ,
on October 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 am
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on November 1st, 2009 at 4:10 pm
You could also outsource your content. Not always the cheapest solution but you reduce your workload.
on November 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
in my opinion, still content is king, you should write a quality content in order to get guest bloggers
on November 27th, 2009 at 8:54 am
In theory somebody could have multiple user names and log in twice in order to give thumbs up to their own answers just to boost their points… but nobody would do that, would they? Surely not. I hope not as it would undermine the whole YA process.
on December 14th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
One of my favorite methods for getting more traffic to my site is having Guest bloggers! It makes it so easy. All you need to do is post their content.
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on December 14th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Why is duplicate content bad? Does Google notice it?
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on December 15th, 2009 at 7:18 am
It took me a while, but it’s certainly nothing to be proud of. You see them on people who can’t post a question or an answer intelligently, as well as those who are more than deserving of it.
on December 21st, 2009 at 10:25 pm
In theory somebody could have multiple user names and log in twice in order to give thumbs up to their own answers just to boost their points… but nobody would do that, would they? Surely not. I hope not as it would undermine the whole YA process.
on January 2nd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Would be great if you continued this series, it was quite good
Till then,
Jean
on January 25th, 2010 at 3:10 am
That is the best way to make your blog have a good traffic create a good and interesting content.
on January 25th, 2010 at 3:12 am
I’m doing this for my next blog. nice post.
on January 25th, 2010 at 7:00 am
Let me know if why is duplicate content bad?
on January 25th, 2010 at 7:16 am
The best way to make a high backlink are create a unique article to attract your reader.
on January 29th, 2010 at 5:33 am
I agree that unique article always works but it should be like rich and great content which attracts visitors to the site.
on February 4th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Thanks for sharing this, Patrick. Helpful numbers for those of us who love online communities.
on February 4th, 2010 at 2:12 am
Has any one noticed that some top contributors on this site are answering questions and giving incorrect answers>Thats fine if they dont know the answer,but what puzzles me is they are getting the thumbs up over better answers and being voted best answer.Whats going on?