Nowadays, I see many blogs filled with guest posts. It seems like the host blogger has taken a leave from blogging and his blog is maintained by Guest bloggers. One of my fellow bloggers told me how he get tons of guest blogging offers from others, (I wonder how he gets tons of them, I never got much, most of them were spam to me so I didn’t publish them).

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This shows the frustration in bloggers to get visitors on their blog and turning them into a regular reader. But, one thing they forget that their blog should be worth subscribing or coming back to read again. I have seen blogs with two articles (yes two damn articles) and they start doing guest posting, just to make people visit their blogs, let me tell you something if you are one of them,

Dude, fill your plate first, and then go feed others!

Yes, I agree that you are working so hard to achieve success, but it’s not you who is going to benefit from it. First figure out what do you want with your blog. Set it up. If you are offering a service then make people land on that page. Do the design or hire someone do it for you. At least get a logo for your blog. Write about your service, do few tutorials on how to use it. Search for competitors and observe their sites.

Build your social profile first

Your blog is on World Wide Web, exposed to millions of internet users, still you want to hide behind your laptop and keep writing your blog to express yourself? Get a Twitter account (everybody is hanging out there nowadays) create a Facebook profile (almost the whole internet world is on it) talk to other people promote your Product or service there, talk about your blog. Get some idea about how people are reacting to your blog posts. Be famous there and then think about writing guest posts, you will easily be able to convince people as you are known to many other people in your Niche ( thanks to Facebook and Twitter), and of course your Guest Posts quality should be great.

If you still don’t get what I am trying to tell you then there is a checklist. Complete these tasks and check that you have done everything.

• At least 10 Quality posts on the blog
• Nice Design and Logo
• Easy Subscription Options (use Feedburner)
• A descriptive About page, Who the author is and what the blog is about.
• You should already have some visitors on the blog (try getting them from Twitter and Facebook).
• Decide where you want the visitors from your guest posts should land.

You motive should be to impress them with your blog. They should feel that they are missing something or they are going to miss something if they won’t visit your blog again. Make them feel that you are already famous.

Let me also give you a time period. Devote initial one or two months to your blog only. Work hard on it create quality content.

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