Have you written a guest post? Well, I have written some but I will be writing more this month, because of the Blogging Idol Contest. So in this days, while I was writing some guest posts, I noticed that there are some factors you need to consider when you are going to write a post in another blog motivating me to write this post.

I will give you a little example. Here at Mr. Javo dot Com, I write with my own style, I know what the people will like and what not. But the audience which I write for in my blog, will be not the same in another blog for obvious reasons. So, the first thing you need to do is Meet The Audience. You need to see in which kind of posts of the other blog receives the more quantity of comments. If you see that the other blog receives more comments in “How To” posts, you should think on writing a “How To” post! But wait, I’m not telling you that you need to copy the other blogger, if so, the guest post would be “more of the same”. You need to conserve your style and this way you will be attract the attention of the readers.

The other thing you need to consider, is to Maintain The Quality. If you ask me for a guest post, I would like to see some of your posts and certificate the quality of them. If your writing is enough good, I will be glad to have a post written by you in my blog. I will be expecting a post of the same quality than the others I read before… If you write something poor, or may be you write about a topic covered by me before, probably I will reject your post.

In addition, if the blogger is giving you an opportunity to write in his blog, you should Deliver The Post Ready to be Published. Before deliver your post to the blogger, you should check it several times, looking for grammar errors. Also, if you are registered in the blog and you can write the post directly through the panel, I recommend you to preview the post to be sure that it looks good, without imperfections between the paragraphs or in the images. This way, the other blogger just needs to read and approve the post, saving his time of centering the images, for example.

The readers will be wondered when they visit a blog and find a guest post over there. If you want to catch them as subscribers, you need to make them feel that your post Worth Reading. In this case, you need to make the title catchy and this way you will have all those people reading your guest post and visiting your blog, getting many of them as subscribers.

And the last and more important thing is to Be Yourself. It’s a guest post! You need to offer what you have in the other blog, so have fun and let it flow. Write with your own style, with your same attitude and try to give your best!.

The last month I asked you what do you most want to learn about? Offering 10 alternatives about blogging and making money online. I was expecting more votes, but I suppose I didn’t sponsored the poll very well… So let’s stop talking, let’s see the results!

Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

As you can see, we have 8 votes related to Affiliate Marketing, being the winner of the poll with 42 % of the votes. Then, we have 2 draws: the first one is between Building Links and Search Engine Optimization with 4 votes, and the second one is between WordPress Plugins and Advertising Programs with 3 votes each one.

I did this poll to know what I will write about in the next weeks, but I will be covering all those topics no matter what the poll said. Of course, I will have priority under Affiliate Marketing for example…

PS: As this is a very quick post, I will not give you another letter of my Exposure Contest’s Word . Are you participating in my contest? If you not, consider checking the contest’s entry.

As you know, the posts are conformed by 3 parts: Title, Content and Comments. Specially, the title and the content are which makes a post more or less popular. When you are trying to get new readers, no matter if you are doing it through social media networks or through search engines, you have one chance to attract the reader’s attention. What is that thing which makes you click on a post when you are surfing by the web, The Title!

The title is the first impression of the post, and because of that, you need to learn how to write a title correctly. I have read several blogs with good content, but they are not read by many people due to the way the blogger writes the titles of his posts. This is really sad because they are working so hard to being read, but the people don’t come! May be they are looking the way to improve this, but they can’t notice that it’s all about the titles.

So to attract people to your posts, you need to write catchy titles. In the title, you need to give the people a hint, about what they will find once they click the link to your post. But it is not enough, because you can tell them a hint by writing anything there… For example, in this post I could write The Post’s Title, but If I did, probably you won’t be here reading this. You need to do it interesting or controversial, this way you will catch more readers just by reading the title of your post.

In addition to writing catchy titles, also you can write a question. Writing a question as the title of a post, you will make the readers feel that you are talking directly with them. So, it’s possible to get even more readers with interrogative titles, because it means that automatically they will comment in the post to share their opinion, making the post a little interactive and creating a discussion, which will give you several comments to moderate .

What do you think? Feel free to use the comment box below, to share your ideas about this important point of a post.

Hey buddies, as you know I’m participating in the Blogging Idol Contest. This month I will be doing my best to attract more traffic, getting more subscribers and with luck, be the fist blogging idol.

I want to invite you to participate in my Exposure Contest, what’s it?

Prizes

1. A 125×125 banner in the sidebar for a month!
2. A Text Link in the sidebar for a month!
3. 1000 Entre-Credits

Note: I will be looking for sponsored prizes, so stay tuned!

How To Participate

In this contest, I will not give tokens or points to write about this contest, or stumbling this post as usually I do. In every post (after this one) I will publish a letter for the next 9 10 posts, disordered of course, and you need to discover which the word is. You have only 1 opportunity to guess, if you miss it you could not try again, so be patient and think well your answer!

You could see the letters ONLY through RSS, nothing else. So if you want to participate, you need to subscribe to my RSS via Email or through a RSS reader, like Google’s Reader.

The word is a single syllable, without spaces between the letters. Is a really easy word!

DeadLine

There is not Deadline. The contest will end when I get 3 winners! When you guess the word, you need to use my contact form to notify me you need to drop me your entry through the Exposure Contest’s Page

Subscribe to this Full RSS Feed / By Email

Good luck!

How long should be a post? This is a great question which someone asked me by email. This is somewhat relative, because every blogger has a different way to think and write their thoughts. Some of them like to keep the post relatively short, and other ones likes to write as crazies, writing a post with 1000 words or even more.

Remember that it’s better quality than quantity. Is better to write a short post with quality than to write a long post without quality. With a good post, being this one short or long, you can attract many people who could comment in your post and subscribe to your RSS feed. Aside this, by writing a poor post you won’t get anything from the readers, instead, you will frighten them.

The length of a post depends of how informative will it be, for example If you are going to announce a contest, it can take you 200 words, being good for everybody. Instead, if you are going to write about a very discussed topic, you should write a good amount of content with some interesting points, if you don’t, your readers won’t have any content to discuss!.

Another important thing you need to remember, is to be accurate. If the post is about Marketing, don’t end talking about Fishing. You should stick into the main topic, and its relatives… People could get bored if you write about an information that they were not expecting to read about. This usually happens when the blogger is not clear about the topic he wants to write about. May be he can be clear, but sometimes, while you are writing a post, many ideas can cross your mind. If you don’t know how to differentiate them, you can mixx all those ideas and get a twister of thoughts on your post.

Conclusion

Before to start writing, you should organize your ideas. I recommend you to set priorities, tags or keywords, which you could clear your mind and this way, you will be writing a good post. The post length is not too important, as long as you write good content and keep your thoughts focused in a point. You can mixx all your ideas, which is normal because that’s the point of blogging, but if your ideas are not ordered with certain sense, no matter if your post is long or short, it will suck!

Remember, it’s up to you

Hey I have an offer for you. This month everybody is going to make contests for the blogging idol contest. Mattaw at MoneyBites dot Com write about how to earn online, he is sponsoring a contest where he will give away $75 for 3 lucky winners, and here are the rules:

All you have to do is write a short new post about this contest, and provide at least one link back to Moneybites.com using the anchor text “how to earn online”. You must also have subscribed to the Moneybites.com RSS feed through email to qualify. One entry will be given per blog post, so if you own more than one blog, you can get more than one entry. Please note all post content must be unique.

Deadline

The contest will end on July 15. There will be three winners. First place will get a whopping $50 through paypal. Second will get $20 and third $5.

Winners will be chosen using a randomizer.

Let’s help to Mattaw to increase his subscribers, at the end, this blogging idol contest will help to every single blogger to increase their rss subscribers, who cares the money?