After dabbling in SEO for the last decade or so, I was finally brave enough to apply for a real bricks and mortar job in the industry. Actually landed myself in a very up and coming SEO firm as a link builder. Found out how basic my knowledge was at the time (haha) and had a CRASH course on how to get clients links. Many checks and verification of various criteria with my personal eyeballs on the sites I may solicit taught me a lot of things. Mostly what is NOT a good website, but also some tricks of the trade along the way.

Where am I going with this? Well, no matter what SEO forum or site I frequented in seeking quality blogs to place links or content on, it was still a personal one by one effort. Like it or not. You can specify “rules” until you are blue in the face, and they are still ignored outright lol. I still had to muck through pages of PMs or emails of offers to crap sites on non-sensical domain names that had absolutely nothing to do with my client’s content. Like it or not, I had to read every single thing I was sent, just in case there was that one GEM.

The same seems to be true for guest posting. There will always be 100 idiots looking to drop links in guest posts with less than average quality articles to place them in. (The same 100 idiots) Sending a reply to their network of 100 different spam sites that have nothing whatsoever to do with the site asking for the guest post. Same crap, different packaging. Link building in 2012 lol
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If it makes you more comfortable, first offer to guest post on the sites that you personally visit on a regular basis (ie you are a huge fan off). Or offer to guest post on a friend or colleague’s site. Someone who has similar interests and/or blogs about similar things.

Then go on to bigger fish You’ll have gained some experience and some confidence!
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