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5 Tips Before Accepting Guest Posts On Your Blog by vowiski(m): 5:19pm On Jul 06, 2013
They are two things a guest post can add to your blog; it can either add value to your blog or de-value it. When the latter happens, be ready to get the hammer from Google. Google takes the issue of useful contents very seriously and if you are not providing this as an author, your blog’s reputation is damaged. It is even worse when guest posts do not inspire your readers, it is important to know the kind of guest posts you can accept, certain criteria have to be met before you let the post go live. If the guest post is empty, it is the blog reputation that suffers.
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5 Exciting Tips To Know Before Accepting A Guest Post

1. Check The Posts For Plagiarism
This is one of the most vital aspect of deciding whether or not to accept a guest post. Search engines especially Google treat the issue of plagiarism very ruthlessly. Google’s Panda update which has affected a lot of content stealers is a proof to the prescript. You wouldn’t want your blog to be associated with stolen contents; hence it is paramount to check whatever post the guest author is presenting for publication. Plag Tracker seems to be a vital tool in checking for plagiarism. They are other equally great and premium tools to achieve this task; a random search on Google can release you to some of them.
Hint: You can equally search the guest post author on Google, this will enable you decide if the author is known for notoriously spamming the web with meaningless contents.

2. Edit Guest Post
You wouldn’t want your readers to read a content that is misleading or providing things that’s against the philosophy of your blog. Should anyone wish to send in a guest post to your blog, it therefore means your blog has reached a certain standard where trust have been built. It would be insane to let one guest post soil all your efforts.

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Re: 5 Tips Before Accepting Guest Posts On Your Blog by ladionline: 12:57pm On Jul 08, 2013
hey blogger,
quite an interesting piece, its great to be a blogger with insight,
people like you makes the whole stuff real. thanks and more grace to your soul.
Re: 5 Tips Before Accepting Guest Posts On Your Blog by vowiski(m): 5:07pm On Jul 08, 2013
ladionline: hey blogger,
quite an interesting piece, its great to be a blogger with insight,
people like you makes the whole stuff real. thanks and more grace to your soul.

Thanks.. cheesy

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