Good guest blogging communities?

[Greg_Gifford]

Besides My Blog Guest, does anyone know of any good guest blogging communities?

The aforementioned, based on my few weeks of use, seems like a great community for guest blogging. Curious if any similar sites exist.

[matbennett]

Hi Annie,

Reports from my guys who deal with such things are that life is harder on myblogguest now.  With all the low quality link peddlars looking around for alternative strategies, guest blogging is high on their list. This means that lots of them have moved to the likes of MBG - making publishers more wary.

[annieplaskett]

Hi Mat,

I've just started using Myblogbuest as well and so far it seems really good at connecting Bloggers and Blog owners.

Its difficult getting hold of webmasters or trying to convince them you are not going to spam them - you just want to share content and knowledge within your industry.  This site seems to be a quicker way of getting hold of blog owners.

And Greg I have tried to use LinkedIn but not had much luck here.  Every one wants to talk on linkedin and push out their own content (me included) but not many people actually listening!

[ThomasHgenhaven]

Hi Greg,

In my experiences, direct outreach is better long term strategy than guest blogging sites. Not even do you get access to better blogs, you get a network of people who'll help promote you on social media.

It does take some months to build outreach this way, but totally worth it.

LinkedIn groups seems like a very good idea too!

Thomas

[Greg_Gifford]

Mat, thanks again for the suggestion. I've used Linked groups for other purposes, so using it for guest blogging opportunities seems like a good idea.

[matbennett]

Not pushed it to be honest. We tend to now favour direct outreach.  However look for a group called "the blog zone" - they have a guest blogging sub group.  Quality level there is pretty good, but I wouldn't steam in with a "content for links" angle.

[Greg_Gifford]

Thanks for the suggestions, Mat. Have you had any success with doing this in LinkedIn groups?

[matbennett]

Myblogguest seems to be the stand out community for this. I haven't been able to find anything directly comparable myself. However, here are a few similar services (or at ones that overlap in some way). Quality varies... in truth some of these are quite spammy, but it's still good to know what is out there:

• http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/
• http://www.blogsynergy.com/
• http://guestbloggingnetwork.com/
• http://www.webtrafficcontrol.com/
• http://www.linknami.com/guest-post/

Also linked in has a couple of good groups for bloggers that can serve a similar function.