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Guest blogging in 2022: how I wrote 80+ guest posts in 1 year

If you started a blog this year, you are entering the most competitive search engine landscape ever. If guest blogging isn't part of your marketing strategy, you're severely limiting your growth.

It's not 2008 anymore – you can't get to page 1 on Google by putting 500 words on a page or joining a dark backlink index. You need to improve your game.

High-quality, long-form, media-rich, and relevant blog posts with backlinks are in the rankings this year. (  Wow, thanks for making us work harder at Google  ).

And excluding on-page SEO, getting relevant, high-quality backlinks from sites with high domain authority is more critical than ever. So how do you get the best quality backlinks this year?

The answer is to modernize and scale your guest blogging strategy.

I implemented a 15-day guest blogging experiment to test the effectiveness of guest posting.

My goal was simple:

In 15 days, publish as many guest posts as possible on high domain authority sites to learn four important things:

1. How to master the guest blogging process.

I wanted to learn how to effectively target blogs, conduct email outreach activities, post threads, write and edit drafts, and submit to high DA sites as quickly as possible.

2. Impact of guest blogging strategy on a website's SEO this year.

Once the 15 days are up and any article is published, you use SEO tools to understand how effective guest posting is in boosting Domain Authority, Alexa rank, and driving targeted organic traffic.

3. Strategies for scaling white hat SEO this year.

Black hat SEO strategies have been outdated for over a decade. I wanted to explore the best ways to scale white hat SEO techniques and accelerate the acquisition of trustworthy and authoritative links.

4. If someone can get high-quality backlinks, whatever their experience.

In my guest blogging experiment, I only targeted websites with a Domain Authority above 60 with an average of 72.5. I wanted to show that any new blogger can get these high quality backlinks.

My Guest Blog Attempt – 15 Days, 18,400 Words and 8 Guest Posts

My guest blogging experience started on January 4, 2019 and ended on January 18, 2019. I went through every step of the guest blogging process during these 15 days. This process involved finding the right people, cold emailing, posting topics, annotating and writing drafts, and finally submitting guest posts for publication.

On January 4, I started emailing 68 different websites asking if I could contribute to a guest post. Of these 68 sites, 28 were interested. I opened a topic for 18 of these 28 sites. I finally published eight articles in 15 days from these 18 sites.

In fact, the papers were published three days in a row during the last three days of the experiment (January 16, 17, and 18).