But what about writing posts for other peoples blog and trying to funnel some of their audience into your blog?
That is the power (I hope?) of guest blogging.
I have started dipping my toes into the world of guest blogging and I'm looking forward to seeing the effect on my blog.
Shortly after creating www.lightspeed-gaming.com I was lucky enough to get contacted by a guy from one of the gaming forums that I visit, who was in the process of starting up his own game specific blog.
He complimented me on my writing and asked if I wanted to maybe write some posts for him on this new blog.
And so started my career as guest poster on the Shalesey Cast Blog.
I have actually made quite a few posts on that blog by now, though most of them are not "true" guest posts, in the sense that they are posts that I also have on my own blog, so they are not unique content for this blog.
But it does get me some exposure to this audience that is quite likely to be interested in the things that I write about.
Recently I tried a more scientific approach to guest blogging and signed up at http://myblogguest.com/.
This is a site specifically aimed for people looking for guest bloggers or looking to guest blog.
I was surprised to be able to quickly connect to a user from the site and this lead to a guest post on his blog:
http://www.blogageddon.com/2011/10/first-look-battlefield-3.html, which is a true guest post, in that I have not published this post anywhere else.
I have not yet seen much traffic generated by my guest posts, but I consider it a worthy investment, as it means that I get my name out there on other blogs and gives me some free publicity that can drive traffic and perhaps has higher "credibility" than my own post advertisements on forums or reddit.
I am still looking for more guest posting opportunities and hope to get some guest posters on my blog as well.
It will be interesting to see if this technique pays off over the long run.
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