Submit a guestpost for free at AFSB, and get dofollow links to promote your small business, website, cause, or book. Start with a problem, and state how your organization solves it.
An easy guideline is to follow the format of existing guestposts. Make sure images, if you submit an image or so, are either owned by you or have permission to use it, they are from the public domain or Creative Commons.
Use the form to submit, or
email the attachment to ben.afsb@gmail.com
Guest posts will be publicly posted 1-3 days after it is submitted. AFSB will email you with the link.
Articles for Small Business (AFSB) accepts guest posts from small businesses for the promotion of their business. The services are free. Neither AFSB nor the guest poster will be paid.
Source: FlickrWhat is a Guest Post?
Guest posting, also known as guest blogging, is writing content for another company’s website. This is done to add value to your business and increase traffic to your website. This is an effective method of marketing and increasing the web presence for your business. A link or two from your guest post to your website benefits your SEO.
The content of your guest post are the problems consumers face and how your business solves them. It can be informative or a story. The focus of the guest post is not to advertise your business. Advertising come from links to your website from your guest post. That link anchor should be a key word that your business is trying to rank for in the search engines.
Your guest post gives you credibility when your potential customer sees the blog outside your business website. The links serve as a recommendation for the reader and search engines to visit your website. Google considers the link when determining page rank. This helps you to find a broader consumer base, grow your sales, and expand your business.
Small Business Subjects
Small business is a wide subject. In just about any concern, there can be a small business associated with it. AFSB has about fifty business categories of guest posts. Your guest post need not be confined to that. It doesn’t have to be in a specific business. Marketing, employment, and taxes are examples of categories that don’t have to be a specified business, although they can be.
Animal guest posts can be about small businesses in maintaining a dog’s oral hygiene, cats, horses, helping with pet travel, or foods to help maintain your pet’s health.
Automotive posts can be about tires or maintenance. Selling or financing cars are also good. Mechanics can write about oil changes, transmission maintenance, mufflers, brakes, or car overheating. Collectors can write about classic cars.
Source: FlickrThe food guest posts category includes different types of food and recipes. Diet and supplements are subcategories. Many diets have different intents like weight loss, gain, or overall fitness.
Home improvement can be a broad subject. The guest post could be about alternative energy like solar power. It can be about different or specific types of roofing. It can also be about the many aspects of plumbing. Pest control, gardening, and landscaping also fall into the category.
Lawyers can write about the ins and outs of the legal business. Divorces, DUI’s, probate, personal injury, and bankruptcy are good legal guest posts.
The medical profession can also be a broad subject. Medical guest post categories include dental, cancer, hair loss, mental health, laser technology, aging, and many more.
Other categories include real estate, fashion, computers, weddings, travel, apartments, and boats.
Guest Post Guidelines
Your guest post must be original. it must be at least 500 words. Google and the search engines will have trouble knowing what your post is about at less than 500 words. More words are recommended to rank higher. The average article on page one of Google is over 1,000 words. Posts can only be as long as they need to be. A 500-word blog post can be successful.
Guest posts are not sales pages. It is not the place to sell your products and services. Write about problems and the solutions your business gives. Or, you could write an interesting story and include in there, a sentence or two about your business that links to your business. Short stories with links are always good.
Legitimate businesses only, please. No black hat techniques such as plagiarism, keyword stuffing, link schemes, cloaking, and anything similar are allowed. Links should not be directed to sign-up sites where there is no adequate explanation of what the sign-up is all about. Look throughout the AFSB site for examples. You can see what kind of guest posts have been allowed.
You are allowed up to two dofollow links to your site, plus one each to an image source if you own the image. If there are two links, they must be to different pages of your site. Pick the pages that describe best what your small business is all about.
You should also link to your guest post from your website. They will help each other. Your website and your guest post will be part of your network and assist each other in ranking.
Use Keywords
The best place to look for keywords is Google itself. Whenever you do a search, Google gives you a few phrases which are suggestions on what to search for at the search bar. It also gives you the same, sometimes different set of words at the bottom of the search page.
Source: FlickrThese are keywords. They are the set of words or phrases people look for. Therefore, they are words and phrases Google searches for. Use them to rank your guest post higher. Do not use them in the same order that Google gave you, all the time. Mix them up. Google will penalize your guest post for using the exact keyword phrase, in order, all the time.
Source: FlickrImages
Many who submit images to AFSB do not understand the concept of image ownership. Just because the image is on the internet, does not mean you can use it as your own to use for your website or guest post. You must look for the permissions of the use of the image from the owner of the image in the website you got it from. Usually, it is on the same page. Look for Creative Commons licenses.
Source: FlickrAFSB will accept only images that you own and images with Creative Commons permissions. Examples of where to get the images are Pixabay, Pexels, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Flickr. Flickr has a dropdown that tells you the image permissions. You must provide AFSB with the link to where the image came from. AFSB will not use images without permission from its owners.
People are visual. It takes a little more effort to read. More than likely, they will remember the images more than they will remember the words. Include an image or two with your guest post. Better yet, a video, if possible. Again, it must be a video that you own.