Guest Blogging Funny Problem!
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Well it made me laugh and then cry a little after anyway.
I have a keyword which is ranking page 1 position 7, I created a really nice article with content relevant to the keyword maybe around 600 words.
I spent maybe half hour researching blogs on myblogguest looking for one that was based in the same country, had really good mozbar stats, even checked out how quickly other posts got indexed.
I put 2 anchor text links in the article and managed to get the blogger to post the article.
Next day checked the rankings and the post on the blog is now position 7, and has knocked me to position 8.
I'm tempted to ask the blogger to change the title tag not to include my targeted keyword.
Anyone got an advice on this?
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Ok, its been about 2 weeks, checked this morning and I have moved up 1 position and the blog site is now 1 position below me.
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Can you probably ask the blogger to change the title for it to be absolutely different?
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Hi Ann,
It wasnt a guest post on a blog in the same topic, it was a general blog which covers pretty much everything BUT the domain auth is so powerful (one of the reasons I selected them) and I think this combined with the content has put them there, the title tag of the blog post doesnt even target the term, if you take 3 of the words in a title which has 8 words it makes the term up.
The blog post has even bumped wiki.
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Now that some time has passed, is there still an issue with rankings? I assume his post was bumped above you because it was a fresh results (hard to say without knowing your actual key phrase).
Anyway, my advice is: just keep promoting your page and don't let guest posts compete with your own pages. Why do you need to guest blog on exactly the same topics? Go broader: expand your topics. Blog in neighboring niches (instead of your own). This way you'll get varied offers and hence links (and avoid any competition in the future).
As for the usefulness of guest blogging in general, I'd respectfully disagree with EGOL here. I've build my blog and personal brand on guest blogging only. I've given away my best content to SEOMoz, SEJ, etc. I have all my most powerful backlinks and leads coming from guest posts. Guest blogging is powerful, you just need to approach it properly!
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Do you think the links on that post will come into play and push me above over a period of time?
Maybe. If the blogger has more traffic than you do it is possible that he will get more likes, tweets, links and social shares for his copy.... If you have more traffic then maybe you will win.
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Yeah I did this before for a good article which was more of a tutorial and got around 100 likes in a few weeks, that alone made some movements in the SERP's (pretty good movement at that).
I do want to carry on with guest blogging though as I have seen some very good movement from this as well but maybe I should alternate one on my site one on another.
Do you think the links on that post will come into play and push me above over a period of time?
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This is why I never give my content to others. Think about this........
Your site is doing pretty good. You got position 7 right away - and without any help. Your content is good enough that other people like it.
So, instead of spending any time looking for links or other people to post your content, just spend that same time creating another page of content. Then you have two pages up collecting traffic that probably rank well enough to pull in some traffic.
If you are giving your content away then the people who publish it are getting the traffic, the links, the likes and the sharing that you have earned. Don't feed your competitors and create new ones!
Work for yourself!
Over time the rankings of your good pages will rise and you will be the only person on the web who will have that content - that means zero compeition for your longtail keywords.
The results will be slow at the start, however, over time there is a good chance that your site will be more powerful and better known.
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