What are Guest Posts?

Well, this isn’t one of those technical terms that only geeks can understand. It’s simple – guest posts are articles that one person writes for a blog/website that he/she doesn’t own.

People usually decide to write guest posts in order to reach more audience and to present their persona or business to people who pay a visit to the particular website. By providing a high-quality article, the owners of other blogs get free (and hopefully high-quality) content from you, and you get exposure to the new audience. It’s a win-win situation.

Is Guest Posting Good for SEO?While guest posting is definitely a great content marketing practice that allows you to get to the audience that was before out of your reach, it also has an impact on SEO. So, yes, guest posts can help you optimize your website for search engines, and it can help raise your Domain Authority score which tells Google and other search engines that your site is more important than the other sites (with lower Domain Authority regarding given keyword).

However, over the years, this tactic has become abused so many times that even Google has had to change rules. While we can’t tell you how many links or guest posts you can or can’t publish, we can tell you that guest posting still plays a significant role in SEO.

How to Find Sites That Accept Guest Posts

OK, so guest posting sounds good. And you would like to contribute your article to other sites that will help you get the word out. But do you know how to find those sites that might accept your guest post? There are several ways of getting a chance to write on other blogs.

Search on Google

A simple search on Google or other search engines will probably result in tons of websites that accept guest posts. While you can easily search for terms like “sites that accept guest posts”, there is also a more direct way that will get you targeted results.

So, to get better results, we suggest to search for specific keywords. But instead, a simple search, put the keywords under the quotes. For example, if you are looking for travel-related websites that accept guest authors, you could search for something like this:

• “travel” “guest posts”


• “travel” “write for us”


• “travel blog” “guest posting”


• “travel blog” “contribute”


• inurl:”travel” “contributor”

These simple queries should result in blogs about traveling that accept guest posts. If you want to learn more advanced Google search to improve your results, please see how to refine web searches.

Search on Twitter

Similarly to searching on Google, you can search Twitter for latest tweets that contain specific keywords you are interested in. What’s great about this technique is that you can search only fresh tweets about specific guest posts. What you’re going to get is actually tweets of guest posts published on specific sites. And the logic here is that if you have found one guest post, the chance is you might be able to guest post on the site as well.

Let us show you on an example. Let’s search for guest posts about web design:

1. Open Twitter & log in to your account


2. Go to this page: https://twitter.com/search-advanced


3. Add “guest post[/b]” in the “All of these words[/b]” field


4. Write “web design[/b]” in the “This exact phrase[/b]” field


5. Select dates to search only for tweets in the last month or the last few months


6. Click search