Great to hear! That’s a hard question to answer as there’s no real set minimum, and attitudes to guest posting depend on niche too. But given you are still quite new/small, personally I’d recommend you do a bit more work on your own blog first before you start pitching. That said, if you want to have a go at pitching now, there’s no harm in it… it’s just that you might not get many/any positive results. When you do start pitching, I recommend you start with smaller blogs and work up to bigger blogs over time. If you start by pitching to other small blogs, you are much more likely to get positive responses. Good luck!

Thanks Caroline! I wouldn’t recommend that. Otherwise that’s duplicate content and you are competing against yourself in search results, and also most guest post hosts don’t accept that, anyway. Some bloggers include a short excerpt from the guest post on their site and then include a link to the host’s site for the full article… that’s one option… I would say this is a slightly old fashioned approach, and doesn’t really reflect how people tend to read blogs these days… (back in the day, when people would read every new blog post a blogger put out, this made sense… but now, when people are most likely to come from Google, it makes much less sense.) What I would do, though, is make sure you tell your email list and social media followers about your guest post. Another alternative is to use all the research you did for the guest post to write a similar, but not identical post on your site… perhaps one which goes into much more depth, or one which takes a slightly different angle. How that helps! Eb 🙂

Thanks, Rebecca. So pleased you found it helpful! 😀

That’s a really great point, Lisa. Guest posting is very much a long-term strategy. Glad you found the tips helpful! Eb 🙂

Hi Jessalynn! So pleased you found this pot helpful 😀 No, there’s no problem with guest posting on a smaller site. It all helps with E-E-A-T and beginning small is a good way to start, just bear in mind that the more relevant (to your niche / topic) the site, the better. Obviously if you can write a post on a bigger / more authoritative / higher DA site (that’s still closely related to what you blog about) that will have a bigger impact, but starting small and working up to these bigger opportunities is a great way to go! Good luck with it and let me know how you get on 😀