Many of you just reading this article to get know about possible disadvantages of accepting guest post on blog. And I'm also pretty sure that many young bloggers those who recently start their blogging journey with very positive image of guest posts in minds, and also looking for guest bloggers for their blog with craze. They amazed that how a guest post can hurt or give bad effects to blog. their brain automatically starts reminding benefits of accepting guest posts with popping questions like why and who have so much time to harm someone blog by guest posts, etc. Well their questions are valid but, in this article I will try to share the summarized information which i gather from my technology blog experience.
1. Plagiarism / Spinning:
The first basic step normally took by any responsible and professional blogger is to check the received content to ensure that it should not be copied, plagiarized or spin. Getting guest posts on behalf of old and reputable companies usually has less chance of plagiarized content. But as since from 1 year with adoption of this method as a shortcut to get fast results in form of SEO, money and fame by so many newbies and non-professional made it headache for publishers. So, it highly recommended to check article thoroughly to make it clear. Otherwise it can create many problems for your blog from De-indexation, penalization by search engines, to lawsuits.
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2. Proof Reading:
Usually the second step is proof reading of an article sent by guest author. This is necessary, and very helpful to know about what topic is it, is it acceptable or not, under what category it falls, it's also helps to remove all grammatical spelling mistakes which should need to be done before making it live. And the negative point about proof reading is that it requires a lot of time.
3. Poor SEO:
If you aware from some basics of SEO, you can easily detect that majority of guest posts are just words heap with some useful knowledge, but free from keywords, and other basic things which should need to be added in an online article to attracts search engine bots for quick and easy indexing.
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4. Editing:
I excluded results from my tech blog experience that majorty of guest authors are paid writers working for companies. They have concern only with text so, you can't expect images or infographics from them. As we all know that infographics and images are very helpful in order to get traffic image results, to make article beautiful, and to explain or convey message easily. So to get all of mentioned benefits you need to work to design related graphics for an article.
5. Loss of Traffic:
If you ever visited any guest post then you also took notice of an Authors Bio. In that section a few words about an author are written with an anchor text. And these words are arranged so that to catch easily reader's attention and to get a click on link. Which increase site bounce rate, and definitely this is not a good sign.
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6. Blog Taste:
Think about those loyal readers which regularly visit your blog because they like you writing because of unique taste and way of sharing information. So, there is a possibility of losing some amount of such worthy readership.
7. Blacklist Site:
The main goal behind guest blogging is to get more traffic and more visibility in SERP. Linking back to any bad site can also harm your blog. So, before giving backlinks to any site make sure that it is not blacklisted, penalized or active in any type of violation.
8. Kill Blogger:
After getting so much workload (mentioned above) with each guest posts surely take so much time, this will make you tire, can divert your mind which cause getting less unique ideas for blog post and promotion, you will become lazy and in last your ability to do blogging will decrease and finally the Blogger inside you Killed by guest authors. And there is not any more biggest disadvantage of accepting guest post than it.
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Friends above mentioned points are the possible drawbacks but it never means that because of fear you stop dealing with guest posts. There are also so many advantages of accepting guest posts and, also ways to avoid bad affects. Which I will definitely share in my upcoming posts. Thank you.
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