Due to the outstanding records and massive outflow of testimonies from those who have had mind boggling breakthroughs in blogging - lots of people have followed suit into blogging - Not minding those who have failed face-down on it.

These people, having read the rudiments involved in blogging - they venture into it with full force and keep updating their blogs with interesting updates.

But a lot of them who know about Guest blogging as a wonderful and effective way to grow any blog - still ignore it; they ask themselves -

“How is sending my own blog post that I single-highhandedly wrote to another blog a GOOD way to increase my blog status or garner traffic?”

They'll end up pondering and keep asking themselves this particular question above.

But, guest blogging has become one of the most formidable strategies any blogger should be armed with, if they want to remain relevant in their respective niches.

It is of topmost importance to your blog growth, everything you’re blog needs to grow is inherent in guest blogging.

Below are 5 concrete things consistent guest blogging will do for your blog-


Develop Your Brand and Blog Authority Significantly


Guest blogging will literally garner up a unique voice for your blog; an intriguing brand that won’t be forgotten so easily. It will help develop your blog’s brand.

And in addition, if you consistently guest post on top blogs and you’re frequently answering and solving their problems through your informative guest post - they’ll start respecting you as an authority on that topic you write about.

So, stick to writing quality and problem solving blog posts; and you’ll see people respect your blog; which in turn will help build your brand.
Get Quality Traffic Consistently
This I think, is the most important feature guest blogging brings to you; it drives quality traffic; not just any ordinary traffic - but niche-targeted ones which will bring in more ground breaking results to your blog.

Just make sure you target high Page Ranked blogs as the ideal websites to guest post on, and since they receive more traffic in real time - you can tap into it by submitting a guest post and watch traffic increase significantly on your blog.

An authority blog which averages a minimum of 70,000 people as daily traffic is an example of a blog you should target to guest post for; imagine your guest post been accepted on such a blog? It will literally send thousands of people to your blog through your author bio’s link in no time.


Increase Subscriber Base Ceaselessly


“Your blog is as popular as the number of subscribers you have” - and I can’t agree more. It is imperative to keep building your subscriber base; and guest blogging is just the right strategy to use.

Since one of the most important guest blogging fit is the massive traffic it drives, as shown above.
The authority blog which averages 70,000 users per day will under normal circumstances propel an average of 1,000 people at once to a “blog A” because of the guest post "Blog A"submitted.

Now, if the “blog A” can get 6,000 people within one week because of the guest post - then expect the blog to have an additional increment in subscriber base, because a lot of the people were prompted to come to “blog A” because of the guest post submitted on the authority blog, and they may likely subscribe to “Blog A” if it’s blog posts answers a lot of their problems.

And in conclusion, below are 6 tips on how to increase your blog subscribers’ base:

Make Your Opt-in Subscribers’ form very visible to your blog readers.
Offer Incentives for subscribers if they subscribe to your blog.
Show the number of subscribers you have on your blog.
Have a landing page with a “call to action” - prompting them to subscribe to your blog.
Link to your subscriber page from your highest trafficked pages.
Add the Subscribers’ form to your “About US” page on your blog.




Get Quality Backlinks Continually


Guest blogging is the best link building tactics available online; it is respected and accepted by major Search Engines all around the internet.

It will help your blog to gain ground and lift above search engines ranking. So, if your blog has a page rank of “0” - keep writing guest posts on a regular basis and with time your blog page rank will increase and your backlinks also will increase significantly.

Remember, backlinks are basically web links that other blogs send to your own blog - it can only be done so effectively using guest posting.
Just make sure you leave a link on your author bio on the authority blog to a strategic page on your blog which you want to the backlink to reside. Then you’re good to go - keep writing and sending guest posts and you'll soon notice the difference in page rank and awareness.

Gain Massive Exposure

For example - When your guest post lands on a big blog that averages 70,000 people per day - you might get some subscribers and some genuine traffic to your blog; but most importantly, if your guest post stays in the authority blog’s homepage for a couple of days - be expecting that at least to
A large amount of the authority blog followers will see your name, even if they don’t immediately remember your name later - continued writing will bring about a wonderful exposure of your works.

People might get to notice you when your guest posting effort are literally everywhere in the blogosphere. Bamidele Onibalusi wrote a massive 270 guest post in 8 month; and that was exactly how he got his first client.

Consistent guest blogging gave him exposure and you can also get that type of exposure if you guest post frequently.

Improves Writing Swiftly

Remember how you once normally churn out worn and dying blog posts full of glitches which people hardly understood? Well, guest blogging will automatically help your writing become more understandable and flow more ceaselessly.

You might start asking yourself how possible is that?

Well, since your guest posts won’t be submitted on your blog, but on different blogs on your desired niche - people who have no idea you even exist will get to read your guest post.

And since, they are not your blog readers - they might criticize you about your writing style and give you tips on how you can improve your writing on the long time.

In conclusion, don't just read and go away, take action and begin guest posting on top blogs - and you'll see all the above benefits accrue instantly to your blog.

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