Guest Blogging Guidelines

Do you want more readers for your blog? Do you want free site traffic? QuickOnlineTips is a top destination for guest blogging on the web with 250+ guest articles. QOT is targeted by guest bloggers to share their tips and tricks, showcase writing skills and attract more guest blogging assignments. Over 150 guest bloggers have considered guest blogging here, so can you. Follow the 15 Secrets of Successful Guest Bloggers.

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. We clock over 1 million pageviews per month and you can read more about us and the traffic which we get. [Photo by stlyouth]

Benefits of Guest blogging on QOT

Trusted by 300+ guest bloggers – QOT is a popular destination and we go out of the way to give exposure to your blog. 300+ guest bloggers can’t be wrong.
FREE Targeted Publicity - get huge exposure to a targeted dedicated group of QOT readers which comprise tech experts, geeks and bloggers.
Confirmed 24,000+ RSS readers - Your article reaches the RSS feed readers of 24000 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 (1000+ fans), Friendfeed (500+ users) and Twitter (2500+ 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.
Featured in Sidebar - Your article stays linked in the sidebar. That gives you the maximum exposure till your article is replaced by newer articles.
Free Backlinks from PR6 Site - You are allowed do-follow links and deeplinks to your site. That is no-time-limit free traffic from a high PR6 site and is great for search engine optimization (SEO) for your site
Long term traffic – All guest posts are collected in a dedicated Guest Posts Category, which is the most popular category on QOT.
Future Links - By publishing a guest article, we dont forget you. You enter a list of elite users and are often credited repeatedly on our blog. e.g. as in our Best articles of 2010 post
Popular Listing - top traffic generating articles get listed on our Popular article pages
High Acceptance – We accept a lot of guest articles, provided they meet our content guidelines.
Quick Publishing – depending on the guest articles lined up, and adherence to guidelines, your article can be published as quickly as within few hours. We dont keep you waiting.
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.

Become a Star Guest Blogger

If you consistently submit 5 quality articles, you can become a star guest blogger.

It gets you a chance to get featured often in sidebar or homepage
You get your own dedicated tags on our site. E.g. See articles by star guest bloggers Srikanth, Eric, Hans, Jo, Paul and Indu.
Your byline links to your tag in new articles so all your articles get exposure.
You can add your photo in the byline to all new articles. NEW!
Repeated mentions and link backs.

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 by you 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 (nicknames are OK)
Inappropriate / abusive language
Defamatory content / suggestion
Linking out to banned sites / adult sites / redirects
NSFW links or NSFW images
Copyrighted content
Too short
Poor images
Not following guidelines

Guest Post Format

Check out some previous guest articles to get an idea about the format. Please stick to the format and read these guidelines.

Introduction - Your name will be introduced in the first line as “Guest post by”. Name can be linked to your site.
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 - Web readers have short attention spans. Add bold, underlines, paragraphs and h3 tags wherever required to give your article text more clarity. Try bullets, numbered lists to get a better copy.
External Link policy -There is no limit to external links to other sites. All links are do-follow.
Images - Strongly recommended you add an image as it helps to get a better reader response. You can find some images on Flickr with Creative Commons license which can be legally shared based on the CC license. Include optimized fast loading images with maximum 500px wide to fit in our template.
Author Byline – all articles need some information about you. You can add one link to your site here which links to keywords for your site title. Do not link to SEO targeted keywords. Max 2 links allowed in whole article to your site.

How to Submit Guest Article

Send your article by email to editor @ quickonlinetips.com (contact us).
Attach article in html format preferably (or MS-Word, txt)
Attach images separately with email. 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 and CC license.
Send you twitter url to add to our Twitter guest bloggers list.

FAQ

When will the article be published? – 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. If you have any particular timing or day of choice – do let us know. Please format articles as per guidelines to get them published really fast.
Can I make any changes once article is published? – If there are minor edits, just let us know.
Why is my article not published? We recieve a lot of guest articles requests everyday, but we are able to publish few articles only. Ensure your article is outstanding and meets the guest post format. Check the reasons for rejection above.
I want to publish more articles? Sure. Keep sending them in.

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.

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