To submit a guest post you first need to decide what type of guest posting you want to do. You can either be a daily contributor or be a weekly contributor. Either way is fine as long as you are writing informative pieces. You can also become a recurring guest writer with our main feature by submitting a one-off post. Please note: The person who owns the copyright to your article must grant you permission to submit the article. In most cases this will be done through our Contact Us page.

Guest posts can be written about a broad topic or on a specific topic. If you write an article on dog training then you could write a guest post on How to train a dog. Your bio box and resource box will have information on the owner, the site they run and any contact information. The information will direct readers back to your website. Please do not submit multiple articles pertaining to the same topic as your bio box and resource box will be lost.

You can also submit your articles to blogs that allow you to be a guest blogger free of charge. These blogs usually specify that they allow guest contributions and allow you to link back to your blog (see our "Share This Page" section below). If the blog owner is generous enough they may even allow you to write guest posts in exchange for advertising on the blog. Please contact the blog owner before you submit your request so you have the correct information. It is best to contact them about two weeks before your article due date.

Use social media to get your guest spot online. Social media sites like twitter, facebook, StumbleUpon and Digg work well for this. If your article is interesting enough people will start following you and tweeting about it. If the site owner sees that a lot of people are following you they might actually promote your article to their millions of followers using Twitter or another of the social media sites.

If your guest article is good make sure that you include a link back to your site in your posting. Include your URL and an anchor text pointing back to your website. Remember that you are submitting the article for free. The site owner is also promoting their website and they want to make sure that people will click on their links and be redirected to it. It will be better for your reputation if the click throughs are more than 50% of your overall visit.

There are some best ways to get listed on guest blogging sites. The best ways are by posting in your own blogs as well as posting on the guest blogger's blogs. This is one way to get lots of backlinks for free. This also shows that you are a valuable source of information to the guest blogger. If they follow you then their articles will be on their sites and perhaps they will even link back to you and provide even more backlinks to boost your page rank and visibility in the search engines.

These guidelines are in place because search engines want to give their readers the most relevant search results. If the guidelines are followed then the search engines will reward the sites with higher traffic. This is how guest blog posts benefit the sites. They help increase the traffic, but the real rewards are in the relationships between the guest blog owners and the other blog owners.

There are many places to submit guest post opportunities blogs for free. Some of the top places are guest blogging forums such as this one. These forums offer a great way to find niche related topics that you may not have even considered before. Just remember to follow all the guidelines set forth in the forum posting.