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Response to Question: Guest Posting

By Greg on December 19th, 2010 1 Comment

Kimberley asks, “I still do not understand the ‘guest blog invite.’ Do they want the author to do a guest post, or do they want to post on the author’s blog?”

The way I read this question, it sounds like Kimberley is asking about the e-mails with the subject line “Guest Posts Invites you might be interested in.” The short answer is that a blogger is inviting you to write an article on their site. If you reference the e-mail, the message reads:

Would you like to promote yourself and your blog by writing a Guest Post on one of these Seeds?

Under each of these Seeds you can see who has published the invite. If you’re interested, all you need to do is follow that link and Private Message them with your idea for a post.

If you agree to work together your post should contain an introduction to you and your blog as you are the guest author.

The post should also be submitted as Buzz and therefore promote your post to an even wider audience.

For more information on the Guest Posting service, please reference the page entitled “Guest Posts & Guest Buzz.”

Guest Posting is a natural extension of the SeededBuzz philosophy. In the Buzzing process, you locate a Seed that has some sort of significance to you and/or your site. You write a post referencing that Seed and then post your article as a Buzz for others to see. By doing this, you are both promoting your site as well as the site that planted the Seed. Guest Posting isn’t much different.

With a Guest Post, you write your article and post it on the other users site, tapping directly into their readership. Additionally, you plant a Seed promoting your article which draws attention to both your work and the other persons’ site.

If you haven’t done so yet, accept a Guest Posting offer at least one time to see what type of feedback and/or new traffic to your site that you might receive. It might not be an option that works for you, but it never hurts to try. This could be your 2011 New Years resolution for your blog.

If you have questions about SeededBuzz, please visit the “Questions and Answers” section or visit us on Facebook.

Response to Question: Backlinks to Buzzes

By Greg on December 8th, 2010 1 Comment

This is the first of a series of posts where I focus on questions submitted to SeededBuzz. The questions are listed under the “Questions and Answers” section located in the left-hand sidebar on the members’ homepage. The first question regards the practice of Buzzing.

Christal La Fountain asks, “I’m confused about who to link back to… obviously the original author but do I also link back to the others who have blogged about the topic?”

The answer to this question can be found under the “Help & FAQ’s” section found at the bottom of this page. Listed under “What is a Buzz,” the page reads: “Because we ask that where possible a Buzz post link to the original Seed post PLUS one other post that has Buzzed, links will be earned from Buzzing as well as Seeding.” So, to answer Christal’s question, yes, you should link back to both the original author as well as at least one other author who has provided a Buzz.

Basically, the purpose of SeededBuzz is to increase the backlinks to and from your site. If you are planting a Seed, you are hoping that your article attracts the attention of users so they will link to you. In turn, Buzzers are also hoping that their article that they write (citing the Seed) also draws attention to their site. Ideally, the conversation started by the Seeder will carry across multiple sites with Buzzers citing not just the Seeder, but one or more Buzzers in the process. This will result in multiple backlinks for multiple users from multiple sites. More the merrier, right?

Christal, and anyone else, I hope this clears up the Buzzing process. If you have any further questions on this topic, please feel free to reply to this blog post.