Allowing Guest Posts on Website

[welcomecure]

I am planning to allow Guest posts on my website blog where authors or writers can post articles to my blog. All content will be manually approved by me. But i would like to know if guest posts will cause any harm to my site or is it good way to generate content. Another thing as guest posts will be having do-follow links & author section too will be up. So firstly i would like to know whether its a good step or not?

Would even like to know what checks should i do before approving a guest posts?

[UmarKhan]

Hey Jawahar,

Thanks for posting your question. Guest posts will never harm your blog if you follow these guidelines:

1. Content is fresh, detailed, unique and optimized.
2. It's well-written (in terms of grammar) and meant to educate users.
3. There is nothing wrong in giving do-follow links if the site "really deserves" it. So make sure to double check every outbound link in the post.
4. Make sure to use images with credits or with permission.
5. It's up to you how many links you want to give away from each post but avoid any commercial anchor texts links.
6. It's better to accept the authors who have previously contributed in that niche but if the author is new and the pitched topics are interesting, give them the chance as the new bloggers sometimes can be beneficial.

Hope this helps!

Umar