Guest Blogging Guidelines
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QuickOnlineTips is a top destination for guest blogging on the web. QOT is targeted by guest bloggers to share their tips and tricks, showcase writing skills and attract more guest blogging assignments. We invite you to write a guest article on Quick Online Tips. Showcase your writing skills and great content to a dedicated community of tech experts, geeks and bloggers. Read more about us and the traffic which we get.
Benefits of Guest blogging on QOT
- Trusted by guest bloggers – QOT is a popular destination and we go out of the way to give exposure to your blog.
- Free Targeted Publicity - get huge exposure to a targeted dedicated group of QOT readers which comprise tech experts, geeks and bloggers.
- Confirmed 25,000 RSS readers - Your article reaches the RSS feed readers of 25000 dedicated RSS feed readers instantly, so you get instant readership when your article goes live.
- Free Social Media Promotion - All out guest articles are also posted to our Facebook (9300+ fans), Friendfeed (500+ users) and Twitter (4000+ followers) pages which increase the chance of free social media viral promotion.
- Featured on Homepage – The best articles are often made sticky and stay on top of the front page for many days, getting your article all the exposure it needs.
- Guest blogger community – Guest bloggers are added to the Twitter Guest Bloggers List where the Twitter community can find them.
- More Guest Articles – if you like the response, you can submit more articles and showcase your talent and get additional guest blogging opportunities.
Testimonials
Gotta say I’m very pleased with Guest Posting on QOT – lots of traffic – best business decision I’ve made. Regards.
Patrick Curl via email
I must say that it has been a pleasure to guest blog at QuickOnlineTips. The editorial staff are fast in responding the submission and often times provide useful insights for better articles and improvements. In my short time submitting guest posts here, I have found that QuickOnlineTips has become a major source of high quality traffic and visitors.
Hans David via comment
Articles We Accept
- Niche topics – see what we write and what our readers like to get a better response. We talk tech, advertising, marketing, computers, gadgets, blogging, WordPress, SEO, Google, tips, tricks, hacks etc.
- Original unique content – not published on your blog or any other blog in original or any modified form.
- Exclusivity – the same article cannot be modified and published elsewhere. You can link back to the article from your blog to let your readers know about your article.
- Free to promote your article – on social media like Twitter, Digg, Fark, Stumbleupon etc.
Articles We Dont Accept / Common Rejection Reasons
- Sponsored paid articles / links
- Previously published in same/modified form on your/any other site
- Self promotional articles for your product / service
- Promoting individual products / services / companies
- Containing affiliate links / Sponsored links/keyword links
- Containing links for unrelated sites /deeplinks
- Links solely for purpose of anchor text for keyword SEO
- Hidden info /Misrepresentation of facts
- Fake author info
- Writing for third party sites
- Inappropriate / abusive language
- Defamatory content / suggestion
- Linking out to banned sites / adult sites / redirects
- NSFW links or NSFW images
- Copyrighted content
- Too short
- Poor quality images
- Not following formatting guidelines
Guest Post Order
First line – Choose the text carefully as first line automatically becomes the META description tag of the article and affects seach engine search result rankings.
Article Text - Add bold, underlines, break into paragraphs and try bullets, numbered lists to get a better copy.
Subheadings – its a good idea to split your article by subheadings. Only use h3 tags.
Link policy -There is no limit to external links (only related and essential links) to other sites. Your site link can only be added in the author byline with the same keywords, and NOT inside the article. This is usually the most common reason for rejection.
Images - Strongly recommended you add an image as it helps to get a better reader response. You can find some paid high quality photos on Fotolia.com (just like the images on this site) or free images at morguefile.com. Include optimized fast loading images with maximum 500px wide to fit in our template. Indicate source of image for credits.
Please read in full as this is the most important reason for rejection. It is a recent update to our policy, due to frequent gaming of links. The purpose is to provide a platform for author exposure, if you came looking for free keyword rich anchor text dofollow backlinks for SEO only, this is not the right place. All articles need some information about the true author (we will usually not accept by third party writers for websites/companies).
- We will link to Max 1 link to your site.
- We will add only nofollow links to the author sites in the byline.
- We will add only social media dofollow links to authors twitter / Facebook / Google+ etc.. You can add max 1 social media link in addition to the authors website link.
- Anchor text - same for your own site title or .com/.net etc. Do not link to SEO targeted keywords. e.g. If your site name is MyCoolSite.com, we cannot link it to “tech news”, we can link it to MyCoolSite or MyCoolsite.com only.
- We will not link to unrelated author bylines e.g we will not link to pharma or real estate links on a tech article. We will usually not link to products in byline. We will usually not link to paid, hired third party / freelance professional writers linking to different products or services for purely for links / promotional purposes.
- We reserve the right to nofollow any link at any time.
How to Submit Guest Article
- Send by email – to editor @ quickonlinetips.com (contact us).
- HTML format is best. We also accept MS-Word or .txt
- Images as attachments. Check max size is 500px wide. If size is bigger, then please send unresized uncompressed png, we will crop and optimize it. Confirm source of image for credits.
- Send you twitter url to add to our Twitter guest bloggers list.
- Publishing Time – We sometimes discuss with the author to edit the article to make it perform better for you. Article will go live ASAP (1 hour -5 days) depending on how well you have formatted the content.
After Article is Published
I suggest you read these 15 Secrets of Successful Guest Bloggers. It has some tips to get a better response to your article in terms of traffic and authority.
- Answer Comments – readers may like to clarify issues and discuss in comments. Having the guest author answer comments add to credibility and better response.
- Promote on social media sites - submit your article to site like Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook and share the article with more friends. If they like your article, they share with more people and they are interested to know who the guest author is and click to your site
- Post link to your blog - Post a link to your guest article on your blog and inform your readers about your article. This will help to showcase your guest blogging skills and they might invite you to guest blog too.
Guest Blogging Badges
Some badges to use on your site. You can link to your article and drive more traffic to it from your blog readers.
