Introduction:

Guest posts are central to most link building strategies. The problem is actually finding worthwhile guest blogging opportunities. If you are going to do some guest blogging, knowing a few tricks to find good opportunities can save you some time, and land you better links.

Here are the seven best ways to find guest blogging opportunities to get your list started. And with the bonus here are some tools to get better keyword ideas for site searching.

Tips

Prolific Guest Bloggers.

In this technique, you should start to find some authors coming up frequently as “prolific guest bloggers” in your niche. When you do, you can look them up on social media or on Google.

On social media, you will see them promoting their guest blogging content. On Google, you should find other posts they have written.

This can help you find other websites that accept guest contributions from other writers. You will either find links to the articles themselves, or their author page on various websites.

Steps:

1. Add a search query on google. (by combining your keyword and guest blogging terms together you will get more chance to have author session)
   
2. Open the website and see the author section below.
   
3. Right-click on the image and click to search Google for the image.
   

This method is a good way to find other websites that accept guest authors, but not in a great volume.

Competitor Backlinks

If you want to find quality and relevant guest post opportunities, you can use a tool like Ahrefs or SEMRush.

Take your top competitors and check their backlink profiles. You will find any recent links from guest posts that they gained.

Steps:

1. Go to Majestic.com and log in
   
2. Google search for competitor
   
3. Add your competitor to the majestic and click to the backlinks.
   
   You can hide the deleted one.
   
   If they already accepted a guest post from a competitor, there’s a good chance they’ll accept one from you as well. This is a very good method to find very good quality and relevant opportunities.

Bonus Tip:

There is also a section in majestic named Related Sites. Click on it and you can get the website list that is most closely related to the website you have added to the search bar.

Social Searches

You can use social media searches in general. Here are a few different ways you can find opportunities through social media:

• Check your competitor’s feeds to see if they promoted any guest posts
• Use similar search terms as Google Search operators by combining your keyword and guest blogging terms together
• Set up alerts for prolific guest bloggers in your niche so you find new opportunities as they get promoted

Let’s go back to the CBD oil and apply it to one social media platform: Twitter.

Use the search function and add the term “CBD Oil guest post”, and you will see results like these:

You can sort by “latest” to make sure you find more recent results. Or you can sort by “people” to see if you can find specific accounts or guest bloggers promoting their content. Check their profiles to find their websites, and add them to your list.

This can help you find opportunities that don’t appear in searches or competitor backlink checks. You won’t find the same volume or quality as some of the other methods on this list, but it helps you find more opportunities.

Tip: Pinterest is also good for finding websites.

Go to pinterest.com.
Enter your keyword into the search bar.

And you will get good websites.

Target Guest Post Sites

You will find some websites that are actively looking for guest contributions. Some might even openly advertise that fact.

Steps:

1. Search the term comes under your niche.
   
2. And you will get the list of the websites.
   

The bonus with this technique is you can directly go to the page where you can check the guest post submission guidelines.

Tools to find keyword ideas:

https://analytics.moz.com/pro/keyword-explorer

Steps:

1. Go to the https://analytics.moz.com/pro/keyword-explorer
   
2. Enter your keyword into the Keyword Explorer search bar.
   
3. Navigate to “Keyword Suggestions” on the left-hand menu
   

   

   

Pros:

1. KWE takes you through the keyword research process.
2. KWE features metrics essential to the SEO process.
3. Keyword suggestions inside KWE come from almost all the sources we saw SEOs accessing manually in their research processes.
4. Import and export functionality are strongly supported.

Cons:

1. There are no cons to this tool.

https://keywordsheeter.com/

Steps:

1. Go to the https://keywordsheeter.com/
   
2. Enter your keyword into the search bar. You can add more than one keyword in this tool at a time. Click on Sheet Keywords.
   
3. And you will get the keyword ideas.
4. Now you can export them and use them.

Pros:

1. Helpful in creating Topic Ideas
2. Free to use
3. Returns results quickly
4. 100% Google suggest

Cons:

1. You have at your disposal a free generator, but which just limits itself to put you a maximum of keywords in mass.

If you want to go further, you will have to buy “sheet corners” that will allow you to access more hard-to-find keywords and especially focused on specific terms, some of them also help you to find the top 100 most searched terms by country and language, by volume and by CPC (Cost Per Click), available domain etc.

How It will be helpful for our team:

1. It will be helpful in quickly finding out the sites that are accepting guest posts.
2. The tools will help suggest the keywords that are highly ranked.
3. All of the techniques and tools are free of cost.