Thread by @brianfenn92

#Nofollow might hurt SEO
It will be interesting to see how many #bloggers add the nofollow attribute to outbound links. Why? Because adding rel-nofollow to outbound links removes much of the incentive for people to contribute content to a blog as a guest contributor.

wendykustanto.wixsite.com/contextualback… Some people just want to get the word out, but in our experience the vast majority of people who contribute to blogs are hoping for a link.

Why? Because fresh, high-quality content, is a big SEO signal. It then follows that by adding NOFOLLOW attributes

hackster.io/wendykustanto/… to all links as a matter of course could also hurt the Google rankings of the blog. Do we know this for sure? No. But we suspect it could happen in many cases. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Resources for guest posting

talent.hubstaff.com/jobs/link-popu… So you want to contribute to a blog? Awesome! Enjoy this growing list of sites that we're pretty sure accept guest blogger articles. The sites in the list below most likely accept third-party posts or in some way help bloggers by providing things

viki.com/users/wendykus… We haven't tested every one of these for writing opportunities, but we have tested to see if they are live. We update and grow the list on a 'fairly' regular basis. Summaries are mainly those of the websites themselves.

fanfiction.net/u/15178540/ Blog Engage is a blogging community where bloggers submit their latest blog articles for exposure, backlinks and traffic. This has a monthly fee starting from GBP 10 (US $14) per feed. Basically, they reproduce whatever is in your RSS feed, then tweet it

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