Top Bloggers - A Call For Guest Posting
Posted in Search Marketing by jspirko on June 20th, 2007 
I am going to do something a bit different and I hope something that will be seen as a bit creative today. I am going to post a list of my favorite Business, Internet Marketing and SEO blogs. These are all blogs I read every day (or at least as often as they are posted to). I have each in my RSS Feed Reader and comment in and on them often.
Each is there because they are not the same old same old, they are not regurgitation of other individuals creative thoughts. So what right? Sooner or later everyone posts a list of favorite blogs right? But oh you should know Crazy Jack as Neil Franklin calls me by now, I never do the same old thing.
So here is how this works, the following list is not just my favorite bloggers it is also a call for guest postings. Each blogger mentioned has the opportunity to submit to Comtech News as a guest blogger one story on ANY SUBJECT they choose. Hold on it gets better! I will be creating a category called "Guest Posts", this category will be limited to 15 total posts for the LIFE of my blog. Now 15 just happens to be how many posts each category page on this blog has.
Got the picture yet? Each guest blogger will get a FULL POST (as in full text) on a page that will only be one page below the main index of my blog.
Further the post may have as many links with any and all anchor text the poster wants to include (no porn and no pharm are the only restrictions) to as many sites as they like. In other words they get all the link juice they want under their full control.
Now here is the real creative part. I am not going to notify this list of bloggers, not by email, not by phone and even the ones I know and work with daily, I ain't saying a word to any of them. Most of these folks have egos and monitor their blog names and proper names on Google Blog alert and some on Technorati. So all I will be doing is listing them here and including them in my Technorati Tags. I will then rely on their own monitoring of their own names or the fact that a lot of them know each other and may tell each other or basic buzz.
In the end we will see how many respond to this post and take the opportunity to post and harvest my link juice. I will limit the positions to the first 15 and only the first 15 of these bloggers to comment here and ask for the opportunity to submit an article.
So with out further delay or rambling here are my top SEO, Internet Marketing and Sales Blogs and the Bloggers from them that I want to hear from in no particular order,
1. Niche Marketing - Andy Beard
2. Marketing Pilgrim - Andy Beal
3. Shoemoney - Jeremy Shoemaker
4. Graywolf's SEO Blog - Michael Gray
7. The Mind of Neil Franklin - Neil Franklin
8. Web Guerrilla - Greg Boser (well when he bothers to post one of the seo rockstars members)
9. Oilman - Tod Friesen - (the other seo rockstars podcaster)
10. Blog Maverick - Mark Cuban (come on dude I helped design your Broadcast.com Data Centers)
11. Marketing Maestro - Josef Katz - (Marketing Maestro is part of Donald Trump's Trump University)
13. Seth Godin's Blog - Seth Godin
14. Selling To Big Companies - Jill Konrath
15. Blogging, Internet Marketing and Social Traffic Generation - Andrew Wee
16. Make Money Online - John Chow
18. ProNet Advertising - Neil Patel
19. The Business of Blogging and New Media - Chris Garrett
20. Gadgets, Google, and SEO - Matt Cutts
21. Church of the Customer Blog - Jackie Huba and/or Ben McConnell
22. Mind Valley Labs Ecommerce Research - Mike Reining and/or Vishen Lakhiani
23. Beanstalk SEO Blog - Dave Davies
25. The Mind of an Internet Marketer - Mark Barrera
So how will this work and what are the rules?
1. Again I am not contacting anyone direct the bloggers listed will have to hear about this from a google alert, technorati tag or a friend. This is the experiment part, who pays attention to their own name.
2. If you are listed and want to post, comment about your thoughts on my experiment below to reserve your space. I listed my favorite 25 blogs but only 15 get to post. Once I have 15 of these bloggers who claim a spot the opportunity closes.
3. After you claim your spot email your article formated the way you want it with all the links you want included. Email it to guestproject@comtechnews.net an email that I will shut down as soon as the project is over. Take that spammers!
4. Your post should be something you would publish on your own blog. You should also not send me one of your old posts or articles, please provide a new article or post. Those are my only quality requirements.
5. I will set up a user name for you on our blog, if you send me a picture I will include it with your post as well and if you have any interest we can discuss further guest blogging opportunities. If not enjoy your one post and your place on the permanent page of guest bloggers.
So there it is! What I think is a pretty orginal idea, so if you know any of these folks let them know about it. If you were listed and you do comment and claim your position please also tell me how you found out about this post, Technorati? Google Alerts? You Monitor My Feed? Someone told you? etc.
~ Jack Spirko
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ogletree said,
June 20, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
You should add www.ogletreeseo.com and www.semtutor.com
Andy Beal said,
June 20, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
Very creative! I’d love to join in but am swamped right now. Maybe I could turn the tables and have you submit a guest post for Marketing Pilgrim. Anyway, good luck!
jspirko said,
June 20, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Andy Beal,
I would love to contribute to Marketing Pilgrim. If you like I can hold a spot for you as well and we will see if all 15 fill up.
Ogletree,
I will be happy to look at your blogs and comment on them in the future. I won’t be modifying this post though simply because I want to be fair to all of those I mentioned. I will try to take some time and give you some coverage next week.
Jack
graywolf said,
June 20, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
Thanks for the offer but I’m waaaaay to overloaded as it is to take on any additional work right now. Found you through technorati if you’re keeping track
Andy Beard said,
June 20, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
Me… ego search?
Well obviously not as much as Andy Beal ;) Ah but then he is a pro
Now what I should really do is moan at you for giving all those links to Technorati rather than your own internal tag pages…
I will try to find some time, but sometimes currently it is hard to keep up on my own blogs and retain the quality.
Darren said,
June 20, 2007 @ 11:28 pm
Similarly - thanks for the offer but life’s so busy that I can barely keep up my posting on my own blogs let alone submit to other sites at the moment. Nice idea though - I’ll be interested to see if anyone takes you up on it.
Ben Fitts said,
June 21, 2007 @ 9:34 am
Jack,
Great idea and obviously it worked a little bit as the ego… I mean link junkies… came out to visit ;)
I only wish I had thought of it first!
BTW we should do something like this for our members at Marketing ICE to give them a chance to post and get links to their sites.
- Ben Fitts
jspirko said,
June 21, 2007 @ 11:03 am
Graywold and Darren,
First thanks for even just giving me a comment I do appreciate it a LOT. Second, and this is for everyone listed, understand your guest post does not have to be massive it could simply be 100-150 words.
Such as Google just announced bla bla bla, and I think it means bla bla bla, I have writen about this before on my own blog,
link
link
link
Guest Poster
So don’t think that I am asking for a book here or even a major article, like I said if you would post it on your own blog, it is more then good enough.
Jack
MarkTD said,
June 21, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
25 Top Bloggers - A Call for Guest Posting…
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Josef Katz said,
June 21, 2007 @ 7:52 pm
Great idea. This should be fun. I am honored to be included among the 25 bloggers you have listed. Count me in. BTW - I found out by checking my blog links on Technorati.
Josef
Andy Beard said,
June 24, 2007 @ 7:29 am
I wouldn’t class myself as an ego junkie, and any sensible blogger is a link junkie ;)
I think I actually send Jack a nice trickle of traffic every day on how to customise blogger templates.
Times really is an issue, I am only just catchign up on the backlog processing for my Dofollow community on Bumpzee.
I know I could do a short post, but I generally don’t write short posts - one of my niche “differentiations” is the length of the posts I write.
It still isn’t a no, but it might take a while…
jspirko said,
June 24, 2007 @ 10:33 am
Andy Beard,
You do indeed send me traffic and every day at that. Generally a click or two but every click helps and your links have helped my rankings as well for blogger template terms on that post.
This entire exercise is mostly to see who responds and how they respond. I have two people that have now committed to do a post and one possible (A.Beard). In addition I am doing a guest post for A. Beal now.
If not enough of the bloggers listed take a spot I will still have 15 guest bloggers, I will just get a bit more proactive in finding them.
Jack
Dave Davies said,
October 2, 2007 @ 12:22 am
I can’t believe I just found this.
Unfortunately I can’t keep as close a tab on my name as I’d like given that pesky Kinks guy (basically, alerts are useless). I do still run some periodical searches though and, months late, I found the post.
Sorry I didn’t get here earlier to say thanks for the include in the list. I should be able to come up with a few hundred words for you. If there’s a topic you’d like to see covered feel free to email me. note: I use SpamArrest so you’ll have to verify you’re a human before I’ll get it :)