Submit Guest Post: GuestBlogging 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 over 150 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.

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.

Benefits of Guest blogging on QOT

Free Targeted Publicity - get huge exposure to a targeted dedicated group of QOT readers which comprise tech experts, geeks and bloggers.
Confirmed 22,000 RSS readers - Your article reaches the RSS feed readers of 22000 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, Friendfeed and Twitter 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 - all latest guest post are linkd from the sidebar, which keeps good traffic to your article for a long time.
Free Backlinks & SEO - 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 2009 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.
More Guest Articles – if you like the response, you can submit more articles and showcase your talent and get additional guest blogging opportunities.
Star Guest Blogger – If you consistently submit quality articles, you can become a star guest blogger and can get featured in our sidebar or homepage, getting over 1 million pagewviews in a month, with your own dedicated tags. E.g. See article by star guest blogger Srikanth

Basic Guidelines for Guest Blogging

Focus your topic – 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.
Check out these 15 Secrets of Successful Guest Bloggers.

Articles We Dont Accept

Self promotional articles for your product / service
Promoting individual products / services / companies
Containing affiliate links / Sponsored articles
Hidden info /Misrepresentation of facts
Fake author info (nicknames are OK)
Copied and modified articles from any site
Inappropriate / abusive language
Defamatory content / suggestion
Linking out to banned sites / adult sites / redirects
NSFW links or NSFW images
Copyrighted content
Too short

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 (linked) will be introduced in the first line as “Guest post by”.
First line – Choose the text carefully as first 2 lines automatically become 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.
Link policy – you can link to one of your own articles in the article text, though is no limit to external links to other sites. All links are followed.
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.
Proof Read – Remember to proof read. I might edit content to suit our blog style.
End of article – Your site/blog (linked) with a byline of your choice.
Article format - html is the best (no word wrap please), sent as .txt file or pasted in email.

Interested to Guest Post here? Send us your article by email in html format (or MS-Word) with separate images to quickonlinetips@gmail.com (contact us).

FAQ

How many links to my sites can I add?

Total 3 links. The introductory byline has 1 link. The article text can have one deeplink to your article. The end of the article has a linked byline to author profile. All links are followed.

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). If you have any particular timing or day of choice – do let us know.

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, but only a few good articles are finally published. Ensure your article is outstanding and meets the guest post format.

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.

You can promote the article on social media sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious 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 a link to the guest article on your blog and inform them about your article. This will help to showcase your guest blogging skills and they might invite you to guest blog too.
Email your friends, Share on Twitter and let people know about your article. The more the people know about it, the better response you get.