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Over the years I’ve been blogging, I’ve been fortunate to be able to write guest posts for several high profile blogs, including in front of an audience of 45,000 at John Chow Dot Com, and most recently on Darren Rowse’s Twitip.

I’ve previously spoken about guest blogging, specifically how to secure guest post slots and how to make the most of guest posts, so I won’t go in to those two things too much in this article. Today, I want to help you to identify and ask the right questions when deciding which blogs to write guest posts for, and how to ensure the audience reading your guest post clicks through to your own blog.

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In the last six months, Twitter has rapidly become one of the Web’s hottest properties. It’s no surprise then, that bloggers are trying to take advantage of this growing medium by letting their readers easily share blog articles with their Twitter followers.

And it’s not just bloggers getting in on the Twitter marketing game. If, on Twitter, you follow any more than a couple hundred new media junkies, you’re likely to have come across somebody genuinely and humbly promoting any one of the many topics of Guy Kawasaki’s ‘Alltop‘ Web site. Right now, Alltop seems to be picking up 30-50 links from Twitter every five minutes! That’s some seriously powerful word-of-mouth promotion!

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Commenting is such an important part of blogging. It’s what often separates the blogosphere and other more traditional forms of media. And while we all set out in the blogosphere to receive visitors to our blogs, it’s comments, or the lack of them, that really worries us in those early months. “Why is nobody commenting on my blog?” is a frequently asked question in any blogosphere circle. Far more frequent than “How do I get more visitors?” and other such questions. Blogging is, after all, community based and connecting with other people and seeing them connect with us is what often drives blog authors.

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Yesterday, I spoke about how to get your guest post published on a pro blog. Today, I want to discuss what to do after your post has been published in front of those 30, 40 or 50 thousand subscribers.

Taking Advantage of Guest Blogging

The real benefit of guest blogging comes when you write several articles for one particular blog, or for a range of blogs with the same audience. The idea is to get your name in front of the same audience on a regular basis.

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Recently, I’ve been writing a lot of guest posts for high profile pro bloggers and each time I do I receive several emails asking me how I was able to write for such a well respected and large blog.

To some people, the process to get a guest post published on a large blog is quite obvious, but other people often believe high profile blogs are only open to the elite of the guest blogging world.

Here are my tips that have helped me get my articles published amongst several high profile blogs, including John Chow Dot Com.

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