Update, January 20, 2014: In accordance with Google’s quality guidelines, I have stopped accepting guest posts on this blog. No communication regarding guest posts is solicited hereafter.
I am always happy to have people smarter than I do a guest post here on Raj & Co. However, before you make a guest blog request, I am laying down some guidelines. You are supposed to abide by these guidelines while you are submitting your guest article.
Who can guest blog?
I prefer bloggers and welcome them most. Indeed you don’t need to be a professional writer or blogger if you have a thought or information that you think will benefit the regular readers of this blog. You are most welcome to share that information through a guest post. Consequently, you don’t have to worry about the formatting, search engine optimization, and miscellaneous other problems. I’ll take care of it. Whereas if you are a blogger, I expect you already know the guest blogging etiquette to make a successful pitch. Hence let me hope you would stick to the guest blogging best practices by the time you are making a guest blog pitch. Copywriters and SEOs, please excuse.
What is in it for you?
You can have two do-follow links in the author byline. In which one can be to the front page of your active blog or a post on it with the title as the anchor text. While another can be to the social media profile of your choice. Nevertheless, you can link only a blog or a blog post with its respective title as anchor text in the author byline. Meanwhile, any other link inside the content of the guest article should only be to the resources. These links are allowed only if deemed necessary. E-commerce guys and affiliate marketers, please excuse.
Guest Post Blogging: Policy Guidelines for Article Contributors
It should be:
- More than 2000 words of compelling unique content that provides value to the reader.
- An MS Word document.
- Written in US English and not published anywhere on the Internet before.
- Useful somehow to the readers and not just a bunch of vocabulary.
- Having at least one Creative Commons Licensed and attributed image, diagram, or infographic (compulsorily).
It could be:
- An article related to finance, business, banking, insurance, debt, credit card, retirement planning, stocks, savings, investing, real estate, economy, foreign exchange & currency trading, tax planning, shopping, frugal living, and other money matters.
- An article related to healthcare documentation, medical transcription, medical transcription industry, medical transcription business, medical transcription news, medical coding, medical billing, HIPAA, EMR, EHR, etc.
- Anything related to uplifting the role of women in the society and the betterment of their life but nothing on cooking, baking, or household chores, please.
- An article on your experience, your thoughts, and what made you land in your career. How do you find it now? Where do you think you’ll be in the next ten years in your career?
It should not be:
- An article just for the sake of gaining a do-follow link.
- A self-promotional article just for the sake of encouraging the reader to visit the link in the author’s byline.
- A sales pitch related to your blog or product.
- A review of any sort.
- An article with numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes.
- Anything related to gambling.
- Anything that is not suitable for a family audience like pornography.
- Defaming or tarnishing any individual or organization.
- A topic that has been extensively written about in the past.
- Reposted anywhere on the Internet once it goes live here.
Afterword
You should be willing to answer any ensuing reader responses. These include comments/queries/doubts in the comments section of your article. You should follow these up for at least three days after publishing the article.
Any breach of trust on your part later on regarding the reader’s responses could result in the removal of the attribute link. Or else, the addition of rel=”nofollow” to the source code of your link.
No changes will be made to the contents or format of the articles submitted. The entire credit, whatsoever, goes to you alone. However, if found needed to make some changes due to various obvious reasons such as search engine optimization, controversies, etc., you may be requested to make the changes before publishing.
Grab the opportunity
Do you have the ambition to get your guest article published on this blog? Write a guest post that meets the aforementioned guidelines. Write a killer title in 64 characters (including spaces) with the appropriate keywords included. It should be compelling anybody to click when found on the search engine pages. Send it to my e-mail address GP [at] rajn [dot] co. Expect a reply within a day if your post is accepted.
Prove your identity
To prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you are a genuine blogger, send me the e-mail from your blog’s domain. Because I ignore guest blog requests originating from Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo IDs.
Welcome
You are welcome any time as a guest blogger on this blog, provided you follow the aforementioned guidelines. To get an idea of how the guest authors have already written in the past, browse the sample guest posts at Raj & Co.
So what are you waiting for? You can’t buy links from this blog at any cost. Why not make the best use of this guest blogging opportunity? Start writing now for Raj & Co! Good Luck!
Update, January 20, 2014: I don’t answer any query if I still accept guest posts or entertain any guest post pitch.