When Search for Blog Guest and to Post, What is the FIRST Metric to lookk at???

[BigBlaze205]

I have a online store selling furnace filters. For link building, I started to post on guest blogs

I'm new to posting on guest blog and I would like to know what are the most important metrics to look at when selecting a blog?

The P.A. ???

I did a few test and this is what I did:

• in the Goolge-BLOG tab option search for K.W like: ''furnace filters'' ''air furnace filters''

• Look at Google results and (MozBar is installed on browser) slect blog with P.A. of 15 or higher

• Read the post and if I have a relevant content to add, post on the blog and had my infos, store url...

• Then I keep the blog URL and see if my post get approve and publish.

Thank you,

BigBlaze

[TomRayner]

That's a pretty solid method, but I think you need to look at a few more things at the same time. I don't think it's completely safe to look at just 1 metric.

PA and DA is a good one - but look at how many outbound links are on the homepage, particularly if they have a blogroll.  If I see a blog that looks like it's selling text links in the blog roll or footer, I don't want to post there because the blog could find itself deindexed.  If you have a link from a deindexed site, it could harm your rankings.

I'd also look at social media metrics and comment count. Whenever I guest blog, I want to make sure I'm posting for an active, engaged audience - links are secondary to this. Maybe look at the first 5 blog posts and count how many comments they all have. Maybe look for blogs with at least 3 comments in the first 5 posts.

There are a number of other things to consider as well, such as checking if the site is in a bad neighbourhood, but for a quick check of a lot of potential blogs, I think PA, Outbound links and comments are a good place to start.  Before posting, however, I'd always check the rest of the metrics.