Sometimes you may feel as if you are banging your head
against a brick wall when you are trying to guest post. Guest posting is a
great way to get links, but after enough rejected submissions, you may be
nearing the end of your tether. Here are a few tips to help you get a few more
of your posts accepted.
1 - Create a customized introduction message and
article summary
Do not send the same introduction to the different
people. Write a customized one to be used especially for that webmaster. Blog
webmasters receive hundreds of “template” introduction messages and they can
smell them a mile away.
2 - Make sure that your suggested article is 100%
right for that website
You will be rejected instantly if the post you submit
is not suitable for the blog post. It must be in keeping with the niche and
general feel of the blog. You may also wish to take note of the other blog
post’s styles and vernacular.
3 - Explain why your blog post is ideal and how the
topic hasn’t been covered yet
Most webmasters do not just want a description of your
blog post. They want to know why it is good for their site. If you are buying a
lawn mower, you don’t want to know how big the blades are, you want to know why
you would want or need it. The same principal applies to sending submissions to
blog webmasters.
4 - Do not nag the webmaster
Remember when you were a spotty teen and you were
trying to ask out that hottie who was a little older than you? Try to recall
what that person said. Was it something like, “If I said no the first time you
asked, what makes you think I will say yes the next hundred times you ask?” The
same rule applies for webmasters. The fact is that some webmasters do not have
the time to look at all the potential guest posts, and so will not reply. Some
people look at submissions and just delete them without responding to you, and
other webmasters (the organized ones) will email you to reject your post. In
none of these situations will nagging ever help you. Plus, you are going to
sour the deal if the webmaster does like your post. He or she will not accept
it if you keep nagging them because it is annoying.
5 - Keep your introduction and summary short and
concise
Nobody likes reading anymore than they have to. Books
do not have long paged because the writer waffled on. Just keep your
introduction short or concise. If the blog webmaster has to go into “Skim-Read”
mode, then a big steamy rejection will follow.
6 - If there are approved channels then submit through
them
Many blog webmasters have to manually delete comments
from their blog posts, from people trying to submit blog post. It may be true
that if you send the blogger a comment message that he/she is more likely to
read it than your submission message, but that does not mean that he/she is
more likely to accept the blog post submission.
7 - Read the terms and conditions, for the love of
cheesecake, just read them!!!
At least 99.99% of webmasters who post terms and
conditions for their guest posts will receive thousands of messages from people
who have not read them. This has to be the number one annoyance of all
webmasters who accept guest posts.
For example, a webmaster will have terms and
conditions on the guest post submissions page, and let’s say that the blog is
about cars. The web master will make a point very clear, such as that he/she
will not accept guest blog posts on motorcycles. The webmaster will put it as
point number one in bold letters or capital letters, and will probably
underline it. And EVERY week, he or she will receive guest blog post
suggestions/submissions on motorcycles.
Read the terms and conditions first. If you are clever
you can pick points out of the terms and conditions and use them to your
advantage. For example, one of the terms and conditions may be that submissions
only come from people born in the USA. In that case you could state in your
introduction email that you are American born and bred.
Kate Funk is an
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She coaches individuals in SEO and business networking skills.



