What I Learned From Writing 42 Guest Posts in 7 Weeks
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Before impressed, hear this: self-defense.
Let quick background.
I extreme Tourette’s Syndrome, Sonia noticed recently. Tourette’s makes people vocalize involuntarily occasionally results unspeakable awesomeness. motor tics range eye blinking punching stranger things. phonic tics range clearing throat hooting yowling snarling slobbering screaming Tasmanian Devil.
Did mention quiet library?
There couple tt help bad. Guitar, kettlebells, talking, writing — ty forms distraction force itch brain while.
But tm work. September horrible time couldn’t shake it. nd project focus on. fat distraction.
Enter guest post ultra marathon.
Come one, all!
I ee guest post, lot “My blog’s probably small, . . .” he lot readers blogs, lot readers tiny, blogs swaddled onesies. we fair game.
The criteria
I post provide:
- A URL blog title
- A topic
- A word count
- An angle approach from
I wouldn’t write at unethical, morally reprehensible, obvious spam. didn’t wt bio floating web:
About author: Josh Hanagarne author Cialis Rules! enjoys popping Vicodin morning dozen Viagra lunch. hobbies include CRA-Z MONEY FM HOME! topless tell-all webcam romps.
Luckily, didn’t solicitations. Wl — many those.
The response
Uh oh.
I published post, subtitled “Let’s Stupid,” at seven morning United States. o’clock teeth we chattering wh fear looked inbox: or 70 submissions.
Refresh. 75.
Refresh. 80.
Uh oh.
Who we te people? writing guest posts blogs stock options, personal development, cr programmers, home schooling, study skills mentoring, blogging, advice women, fussy academics, chemists, Capoeria buffs, kettlebell nuts, corporations process building websites trying along, . . . .
A smarter man, we brain ls apocalypse, scaled ts dn extended deadline. ts exactly needed.
To work, then.
The ft week onward
I wrote 15 guest posts week one. Ty published wn days. dust cleared, RSS ns jumped 200 seven days.
The remaining weeks similar. wrote more. less. wrote guest posts tt nr again. posts appeared dt titles, dt pictures, dt fonts, traffic kept coming.
After 10 days, tics subsided, committed project. hg blast.
Lessons learned, surprises, observations ws try this
By November 1 written 50 posts. 42 of them aired blogs. learned:
- A lot bloggers fear guest posting. happy current rate growth.
- You meet awesome people.
- Those people act le doing favor borrowing tr traffic.
- You are doing tm favor, provided tm use. love guests!
- This marathon approach everyone. try write capable of. Test don’t flame out. he masochist capacity wound wh me handle. 80+ posts written November 1. Life, sleep, flu, book proposal, kettlebells conspired me.
- Don’t commit prevent taking care business home(page). There’s pointless tn writing killer guest post hg visitors land dancing Hello Kitty graphic that’s old.
- Don’t pretend don’t. can’t talk stocks, er fd approach tn down. Don’t poser.
- Don’t afraid people pitch ideas you. rules, right?
I don’t regret doing marathon, won’t an don’t to. he nearly 40 posts th I’ve knocked initial batch. I’m honor all. meantime, you’d added queue, fd me.
I handle it.
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