Guest blog your way to more traffic

Guest blog your way to more traffic[ 3 min read ]

How to Use Guest Blogging to Increase Your Website Traffic

If you’re a small business owner or freelancer, you know that website traffic is the lifeblood of your online presence. Without it, potential customers will never find out about the amazing services or products you have to offer. So how do you go about getting more website traffic and build your backlinks at the same time? One of the most effective methods is guest blogging. Let’s break down what guest blogging is and how it can help increase your website traffic.

What is Guest Blogging?

Guest blogging is a fab way to drive more traffic to your website by reaching a wider audience, it also helps build stronger community relationships.

Guest blogging involves writing blog posts for other websites, usually related to yours in terms of content, subject matter and target audience. The idea is to get your name and content in front of readers who might not otherwise see it, or just reach a larger audience. For example, if you run a web design business, you could write a blog post for another digital-related site and include a link back to your own website. This way, readers who like what they read on the other site might follow that link back to your website and become potential customers.

The Benefits of Guest Blogging

Writing guest blogs has many benefits, including increasing your visibility online, building relationships with other bloggers in your field, and even improving your SEO rankings by creating more links pointing back to your website. The more often people read about you and click through to read what else you have to say on your own site, the better chance they have of actually becoming customers – which is ultimately what every small business owner wants!
Additionally, by writing high-quality content for other sites in order to increase traffic on yours, you are able to create relationships with influential bloggers in your field – potentially leading to further opportunities down the line such as collaborations or speaking engagements at conferences or seminars.

How To Make Guest Blogging Work For You


It’s important that when going after a guest blogging opportunity, you make sure it makes sense for both parties involved; don’t just send generic pitches out into the ether and hope for the best!
Researching potential blogs ahead of time can help ensure that both parties are getting something out of the exchange. Once you know which sites are open to accepting guest posts from outside writers (and remember not all sites will be), tailor each pitch so that it speaks directly to what their readers want from them – and make sure it also speaks directly about why someone should be interested enough in what YOU have written about that they would click through from their site over yours. Include any relevant links back to previous work samples as well as social media handles so those potential readers can learn more about who YOU are beyond just this one article before clicking through.

If you’d like to guest blog on The Smart Bear or like us to guest blog for you, please get in touch using the form below.

Suzi Smart Bear

I'm Suzi - the owner of The Smart Bear.

Skip to content