How To Write A Perfect Guest Post Pitch

Bother about the traffic on your website! Putting a lot of effort into good and high-quality content but it does not work in getting traffic to your website.

Want your name to stand out from the general crowd and become a matter of discussion between the notable bloggers.

So here are some tips to craft the perfect guest post pitch.

Before diving into the bottom of the bed let’s examine the surface.

Before approaching for a guest post you should give a check to

After giving a check to the basic elements you are ready to approach the renowned bloggers.

What is Guest Posting?

Guest post is the practice to write for someone else’s website or blog. You are the guest on their website that’s why your post will be named as ‘Guest post’. 

The host will provide exposure and an external link to their guest. You will get the exposure of wide and new audience provided the content is related to the niche of the host’s website.

Purpose of Writing Guest Post

Be a person who lives his life with a real purpose. Every work has its purpose. What we want is that the purpose must be completed after the work is done.

So writing a guest post hides the purpose of the guest as well as the host. Writing a guest post can be beneficial in completing the following purposes:

So I think you have a bit understanding of what is a guest post.

If you are abecedarian for the guest post and looking for the opportunities then take a step forward in knowing how to find guest post opportunities.

How To Find Guest Blogging Opportunities?

Finding guest post opportunities sites is not an easy task and takes lots of effort because once you find whom to pitch then you can easily pitch them with your strategies.

Let’s discuss some quick ways to find guest post opportunities.

1. Google Search

Google is the solution to every answer and unanswered problem.

If you are willing to write a guest post for the fulfillment of the above-mentioned purposes then you can take help from google to find the way for you.

You can search by using different keywords like

• Guest post sites
• Guest post opportunities

If you are domain-specific then you can take help from the following keywords

• “Guest Post in Marketing”
• “Guest Post in Health and Fitness”
• “Fitness blog that accepts guest post”
• “Guest Post in Technology”

If the particular website or blog is in your notice then you can search by keywords by

• site:xyz.com “Guest post by”
• site:xyz.com “Guest post”
• site:xyz.com “Write for us”
• site:xyz.com “’Guidelines guest post”

2. Find On Social Media

Presently social media brings a turning point in people’s life. Even social media is behaving as an education institute in many aspects like organizing the competition, webinars, live sessions, and even in providing jobs.

Social media can be the best platform in providing opportunities for the guest post. 

There is hardly any percentage of the population who are not active on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and so on.

Social media has different features like Facebook pages, Facebook groups, stories, etc through which you can reach the guest post providers and services.

3. Keep Reading

Starting from childhood our habits have been molded into the habit of reading. And it truly works in making a career. It gives us all the valuable information and knowledge which one needs to understand and note.

Reading posts of great bloggers can help you in knowing their writing methodology, provides you the knowledge, and will ease your problem of writing guest posts.

You will come to know about the sites your webmaster writes for. 

Reading blogs with high domain authority and posting on it will give a push and add weight to the backlink that you have. 

Reading blogs will help you to know about the specific topic the host is looking for to publish among the audience. So grab this opportunity because it can be a win-win situation for you.

4. Give a Check

You can check for websites and blogs that give you the name of the website involved in accepting guest posts.

Check the directories and choose the best out of them which matches your content and niche.

Rely on the posts that are ranked by Google as there will be fewer chances of spammy blogs and posts.

You need to be smart, tricky and to be ready with high-quality content. 

This is because the top and high DA websites receive ‘n’ numbers of mail for the guest post and to get picked by the webmaster eyeballs your ideas should be different and unique.

Now you are ready to explore the topic so come lets dive in together that will favor us to know about the tips to craft perfect guest post pitch.

5. Pitch Elements

Knowing the basics of guest post its time to look for the elements involved in guest post pitch.

5.1 Topic

This is one of the topmost elements that one should always keep in mind before going to the webmaster. The guest post suggestions should be interesting and relevant. It means the decided topic should highlight the following parameters:

There is a tip for you all that can help you design the title in a better way. Always note to use keywords with your creativity to design a perfect and eye-catchy title.

5.2 Personalization of email

This is the next and prominent element of the guest post pitch. Personalization of mail is mandatory to get selected by the host. You can personalize the email by

• Approach them by their name
• Tell them about their work and use some tricky ways to show you love their work.
• Ask them to check for your posts and to connect on social media
• Give them a reason for your interest in their website’s niche

There can be reasons behind why your pitch didn’t work and fail to influence the host so you must take care of

• Sentences
• Grammatical mistakes & Spelling errors
• Body & Formatting of the email
• A niche of the website
• Personalization
• Not meant only for promotion
• No excess use of mass outreach template

5.3 Outlines

It is the third and main point before sending the guest post email pitch. This is the step where you make him understand your writing plans. 

After working on the title its time to come up with the new ideas which you will include in the content. 

• Keep the content ready in the form of emphasizing outlines and bullet points
• Outlines should be descriptive i.e. it will elaborate clearly about the whole content
• Outlines and bullet points should make a clear image on the retina of the webmaster

How To Write Perfect Guest Post Pitch?

For the sake of purposes discussed above the central idea lies in crafting the pitch. The guest post is the perfect idea that must be followed by the website owners with some good strategies. 

So keep your eye forward and catch the following heads

1. Target Blog

Before writing the post there are some to-do which is essential to note down

Carefully read the blogs of your interest and decide which one is meant for you. This will help to save time looking for different blogs and help you to understand the workflow accordingly.

After understanding the targeted blog you can contact the blogger via email and write a message to the right point. 

You can mention your work and even you can mention your post that is ranked by google. Give them a reason to say yes. Don’t be arrogant just be yourself.

How to find email address?

In order to find an email address of any blog owner you can follow any of the step given below:

1. Find Contact Us page of the blog
2. Use email finders such as Hunter.io

This is how you can use hunter.io chrome extension for free to find email addresses.

2. Research

Research is the best way to know about the current scenario. One should always get ready with his computer, pen, and paper for doing research. It involves you finding what is unanswered till date.

When you decide the perfect blog for you now it is the time to research that blog.

Let’s see an example of guest posting guidelines:

This is what you should keep in mind while writing your post.

In addition, Be with ideas that blend well with his website’s niche and that can work better for the audience as well as for the blog. 

New ideas and suggestions that are relevant for the targeted blog have high chances of getting favored.

3. Body Of The Email

Done with research?

Now let’s write an email to the blogger.

This shows how professional you are in your business. If your email is effective then you can opt for the guest post.

Firstly let’s see what leads email to be in the trash

• No optimization of Subject Line
• Lack of Introduction of Guest Poster
• Poor email Body
• Grammatical Errors
• Low Quality and Copied Content
• Wrong Niche

If you do not want to wait for days and to get placed in the receiver’s inbox just practice the following to have your email done

• Optimize your subject line by A/B testing
• Introduce yourself and your website
• Tell why you reach out to them
• Give unique ideas with a description of the content (outline of your guest post)
• Provide them your work sample
• Ask them to check your website and social media profile
• Signature
• Add quotations can be right

 Additional suggestions for email

• Be humble and pay respect to the webmaster
• Don’t bother them by pinging shortly
• Remind them of your mail weekly
• In case of no response, go for other opportunities

4. Great Content 

The needle stops here.

Yes, you need to be all the degrees of great here i.e. great, greater, and greatest.

Your content should be like the one having its identification.

It should be original and without plagiarism.

Tools like Grammarly, PlagScan, and Quetext can help you in checking the plagiarism of your content.

The content is what the host, the users, and the posters ask for. It is the solution to the reader’s problem and the bloggers are here to solve it. 

So be relevant, be persuasive, be impactful, be descriptive. It should give a feel like you are striving to share all the knowledge you have of the topic.

5. Internal Links

If the ball comes in your hand, play it with strategy.

You know what I mean

Here ball means opportunity and strategy points to the writing skills.

Having good content is not enough. 

You need to work on the adjustment and series of headings and subheadings. A guest poster must know of the positions of the headings and put them orderly.

For highlighting good writing it should be taken care that we are providing internal links in the post.

To provide internal links in the post

By searching on Google, you’ll find all related posts to the keyword and you can easily improve internal linking.

Mentioning internal links will reflect that you have a good concentration on the blog. It will tell the host that you research the website carefully and write the post as it is your job.

6. Adding Summary

Do all the work that needs to be done in writing the post like

The last step is writing a summary of the topics mentioned in your post. This creates ease in reading and understanding of the whole post. 

It will help users in case of a time boundation as this will make a layout of the title in their mind.

I hope these tips will surely work for you in providing the guest post opportunities and to craft the guest post pitch.

If you find these helpful please let me know by the comments.

Conclusion: Guest Post Pitch

Finding guest blogging sites is not much challenging because that can be easily done by performing some google searches.

The real task is to study someone’s blog, approaching them, and then writing a post.

Before writing a perfect guest post pitch you should always follow the below checklist.

• Step #1: Find an authority blog in your niche.
• Step #2: Study the blog and find the right keyword.
• Step #3: Understanding guest post guidelines.
• Step #4: Create outline of the content.
• Step #5: Send them your pitch email.
• Step #6: Follow Up if needed.
• Step #7: Write amazing content.
• Step #8: Add images, infographics, interlinks to content.
• Step #9: Share your content and ask for corrections.
• Step #10: Ask for a contextual backlink.

That’s it for this post. I hope you’ve now learned how to write a perfect pitch email for your next guest post.

Let me know in comment section. What you think ?