High Quality Guest Blog Swapping

[ross88guy]

I have tried checking out a few of the big guest blogging sites out there but every time I create a killer article the site that offers to publish it is normally some suspiciously spammy side with a low Moz score.

Does anyone know any sites where guest bloggers can link up to swap high quality blog posts. Maybe one that requires some filtering of poor quality host blogs?

[Chris.Menke]

Yep, that can be an issue with the guest blogging sites.  Anything that's easy has a tendency to get overrun with spammers.  For the most part you'll have to sift through the offers just the way you're doing.

The long hand way is to research potential publishers before you write, see which ones may accept guest posts, and then tailor your post to be worthy of that blogger's acceptance on his or her blog.

[redfishking]

This is (unfortunately) a big issue with blog sites. How are you attempting to find sites to publish your content? When we first started searching for blogs, we would look for the top blogs in our niche on the SERPs. We would Google terms like "top HR blogs" or "best HR blog" and then check out the results. If they are a good blog, they are going to rank well in the SERPs, so they are fairly easy to find. You can also specify your search by adding modifiers such as intitle:keyword.

Most of these sites, however, are very high quality, and don't readily accept submissions. They are still worth trying though, because if you can submit content you get a powerful, trustworthy, relevant link back to your site. From my experience it seems that posting content under a high ranking strictly <your niche="">blog is better than posting under a <your niche="">category of a bigger, more general, all-purpose blog.</your></your>

If you don't find any sites you want to and are able to contribute to, you can also use resources such as BloggerLinkUp or HelpAReporter, which try to help connect the content publishers with the writers.

[ross88guy]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I am just putting together a list of sites that I want to approach. I sent out a few test emails last night so hopefully should get some replies today!