Accepting Guest Posts On My Blog

[leaseman]

I run a static website with a wordpress blog attached (www.example.com/blog). I'm thinking of allowing guest to post to the blog mainly just to get some fresh content on the blog instead of my own rantings.

Is this a good idea from an seo perspective? I do know that I will get mostly people promoting their own sites but if the content is topically relevant and it's of some quality this should be okay, right? Any links in their post would be no follow so I wont loose there.

If this is a go, how do I promote it so I get more people to posts?

Am I thinking right on this? Good idea?

[JoeyDorrington]

It is quite good if you have a tight content niche and make all your links no follow.  This will get rid of many of the spammers and can really help with long tail searches.  Avinash is a huge fan of this on his blog and he even keeps a metric on the ratio of the words written by him vs words written by engaged audience members.

But, you need to be the one driving the conversation and setting the agenda, if you don't you will just get spammers and junk on there.  Best of luck and feel free to PM me the blog, I'll check it out.