I had someone email me through my website's email asking to write an article to be published on my site. They offered to pay me for it as well. I was wondering what is the best
Congratulations for receiving the attention. You are obviously doing something right!
Thanks for the question, Rachel. I am learning from it as well.
The only request I have received was a hack!
The advice seems like a good filter to proceed with.
Happy New Year,
Sami
My take: it is better to have for you to edit and have your approval before publishing. It is now a trend to encourage what we call guest bloggers that most says it helps to get traffic to your website. Check this out: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/
I would be very careful! But if genuine, you should grab it just for the rankings sake alone!
Hi Rachel,
This is guest posting or guest blogging.... as I mention here: Increase Website Traffic with Guest Posting You want to have them submit the article to you and preface it with a couple of rules. Such as it has to pertain to your niche and provide your readers with value.
Then, you can setup a User for them to login to your WordPress as an Author or Contributor where you "approve" the article before it gets published.
Here are the guidelines for guest posts on my website as an example:
http://pureresiduals.com/submit-a-guest-post/
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What do I tell someone who wants to write for my site?
I had someone email me through my website's email asking to write an article to be published on my site. They offered to pay me for it as well. I was wondering what is the best
It may be genuine but you never know. If they are offering to pay it does sound a bit phoney.
Ask them to submit a test article to you by email, then check it for plagiarism. If it's Ok and matches the style of your site then they have passed the first test.
Send them a mail for them to respond to to check the mail address.
Ask them what articles they intend to write and give them your site rules. If they are going to post links check out the links yo see if they are acceptable to you.
Keep them under monitoring until you are happy with thier contributions.
Bob
Congratulations for receiving the attention. You are obviously doing something right!
Thanks for the question, Rachel. I am learning from it as well.
The only request I have received was a hack!
The advice seems like a good filter to proceed with.
Happy New Year,
Sami
My take: it is better to have for you to edit and have your approval before publishing. It is now a trend to encourage what we call guest bloggers that most says it helps to get traffic to your website. Check this out: https://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/
I would be very careful! But if genuine, you should grab it just for the rankings sake alone!
Hi Rachel,
This is guest posting or guest blogging.... as I mention here: Increase Website Traffic with Guest Posting You want to have them submit the article to you and preface it with a couple of rules. Such as it has to pertain to your niche and provide your readers with value.
Then, you can setup a User for them to login to your WordPress as an Author or Contributor where you "approve" the article before it gets published.
Here are the guidelines for guest posts on my website as an example:
http://pureresiduals.com/submit-a-guest-post/
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I may have just messed something up when formatting my website, but all of my pages pull up with "%page | title%" at the top, rather than my page and post name. Is there a way
You will need to go to the SEO settings and disable the title settings so it shows up correct.
I have been struggling with this and support told me how to fix it.
Hope that helps
Sheila
Hi, have you looked in the All in One SEO > General Settings and scroll down to Title Settings. Does your "Home Page Title Format:" look like the attached?
Hi - where did you change it? Was it on one of the PHP pages, or is it within your theme somewhere?
If it's possible to change it, I would suggest it should be:
%page% | %title%
Cheers, Mark
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Does anybody know how to fix this?
I may have just messed something up when formatting my website, but all of my pages pull up with "%page | title%" at the top, rather than my page and post name. Is there a way
You will need to go to the SEO settings and disable the title settings so it shows up correct.
I have been struggling with this and support told me how to fix it.
Hope that helps
Sheila
Hi, have you looked in the All in One SEO > General Settings and scroll down to Title Settings. Does your "Home Page Title Format:" look like the attached?
Hi - where did you change it? Was it on one of the PHP pages, or is it within your theme somewhere?
If it's possible to change it, I would suggest it should be:
%page% | %title%
Cheers, Mark
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Whenever I add an Amazon widget on my post, the comment section of the page disappears. Why is this happening?
Where are you adding the widget, and are you using a plugin I often find adding widgets to my side bar works better
What I think is go to dashboard Setting then discussion and then make sure to save, I hope it helps.
there might be a conflict with plugins , and so forth. BUT, I am not sure why.
I avoid Amazon widgets. And I have not used it.. """yet""
Let me ask around and find out an answer.
Why is the comment section disappearing when I add widgets?
Whenever I add an Amazon widget on my post, the comment section of the page disappears. Why is this happening?
Where are you adding the widget, and are you using a plugin I often find adding widgets to my side bar works better
What I think is go to dashboard Setting then discussion and then make sure to save, I hope it helps.
there might be a conflict with plugins , and so forth. BUT, I am not sure why.
I avoid Amazon widgets. And I have not used it.. """yet""
Let me ask around and find out an answer.
My first niche idea is organization. I myself have a passion for organization in my personal life and in the spaces I live in (i.e. my room, closet, bathroom, office, etc.), so
Hi
There are some good comments already - here's my extra thoughts.
I like the organisation one but it needs to be narrowed. Perhaps consider narrowing to something like:
organising your homelife
organising your living spaces
organising wardrobes
organising your kitchen
etc
However, you need to see what you can do for making money from it. Selling filing stuff / storage solutions through amazon / wallmart or similar?
I think the Christian relationship one could work but may be hard to get yourself ranked in this sort of niche - just my thoughts.
Richard
organization really is not too broad. You could make it less broad breaking into micro niche like "organization for the college student" Organizing for the 20 something single" go to youtube and check out the video on the subject to get ideas. also search "de-clutter" going paperless , I watch video like that all the time. It will give you good content ideas.
The organization can be started small with one of the areas, then expanded when you have a lot of content.
Christian relationships advice could be started with dating relationships from the female side and expanded to wherever it takes you.
John
What you also need to look into is whether you can monetize that niche or not. It will help you further to narrow down.
I have a few niche ideas, but I think they are all too broad?
My first niche idea is organization. I myself have a passion for organization in my personal life and in the spaces I live in (i.e. my room, closet, bathroom, office, etc.), so
Hi
There are some good comments already - here's my extra thoughts.
I like the organisation one but it needs to be narrowed. Perhaps consider narrowing to something like:
organising your homelife
organising your living spaces
organising wardrobes
organising your kitchen
etc
However, you need to see what you can do for making money from it. Selling filing stuff / storage solutions through amazon / wallmart or similar?
I think the Christian relationship one could work but may be hard to get yourself ranked in this sort of niche - just my thoughts.
Richard
organization really is not too broad. You could make it less broad breaking into micro niche like "organization for the college student" Organizing for the 20 something single" go to youtube and check out the video on the subject to get ideas. also search "de-clutter" going paperless , I watch video like that all the time. It will give you good content ideas.
The organization can be started small with one of the areas, then expanded when you have a lot of content.
Christian relationships advice could be started with dating relationships from the female side and expanded to wherever it takes you.
John
What you also need to look into is whether you can monetize that niche or not. It will help you further to narrow down.
It may be genuine but you never know. If they are offering to pay it does sound a bit phoney.
Ask them to submit a test article to you by email, then check it for plagiarism. If it's Ok and matches the style of your site then they have passed the first test.
Send them a mail for them to respond to to check the mail address.
Ask them what articles they intend to write and give them your site rules. If they are going to post links check out the links yo see if they are acceptable to you.
Keep them under monitoring until you are happy with thier contributions.
Bob