Looking to write guest articles

[LemonChip]

Hey all, recently I wrote a guest article about Web Video on http://marketing.com.au/ and I really enjoyed the experience.

I want to write some more guest articles like this but I'm not sure where to go to find places that I can approach. Does anyone on here know some good sites that relate to my niche (web design, web video etc) that would be good to hit up for guest article writing?

 

[James]

You can use a website such as: myblogguest.com

Or just use search queries like: site:.com.au "web design" guest post
or similar to fish out au guest post opportunities.

I also allow people to guest post - http://jamesnorquay.com/guest-post/

 

[LemonChip]

Thanks mate, just sent a message. Anyone else that will accept a guest post let me know.

 

[Oz.]

What is Google's stance on manually reviewed/approved unique Guest Posts with dofollow brand (domain.com) links (in the author bio) since this unnatural link warning/penalty phenomenon that has swept the web? Any thoughts?

 

[James]

What is Google's stance on manually reviewed/approved unique Guest Posts with dofollow brand (domain.com) links (in the author bio) since this unnatural link warning/penalty phenomenon that has swept the web? Any thoughts?

Rules are not too clear on guest posts, but they have added more information to this page in the last week:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

They state that it needs to be relevant content with a relevant author profile in the link, and you can not do something like this as an author profile:

"Make sure you check out "life insurance deals" by jono jones who sells "best life insurance" and "buy online now" from his website lifeinsurance.com for example.

I would use the same methodology as Mashable for example in the author profile below the article:

http://mashable.com/2012/10/08/intel-romantic-video/

ClickZ is a Mashable publishing partner that provides marketing news and expert advice. This article is reprinted with the publisher's permission.

Where "ClickZ" is a branded link to the website, I mean even looking at SEOmoz they follow a similar trend where they have 1 branded link in an author bio. You can also feel safe linking to social profiles even link it up to G+.

But overall the stance is to attract natural links via content marketing and social.

 

[payattention]

Good timing on the guest blog question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMxC3wQZOyc