100 Sites To Submit Guest Posts

by Brian on October 16, 2011

All of the guidance and hype around blogging for the last several months has focused on Guest Posting and how it can be used to drive a high traffic blog. Guest posting helps with referral traffic as well as search engine optimization due to the links back to your site from the blog where your guest post is hosted. The biggest mistake that is being made is that everyone thinks they are going to get their post on one of the A-list sites, therefore a lot of time and effort is wasted as these sites turn down over 90% of guest post submission request. Must bloggers that do not have a high traffic site and something they can reciprocate to the A-list site should find other sites closer in size to their own as guest post targets. This will help each site grow together and has a higher likelihood of being accepted than just submitting to the top sites.

I have compiled a quick list of sites that would be good targets for guest posts. These sites are in a variety of categories and vary in size, but all have setup a page on their site for guest posting submissions which means they are open to it which a huge time saver in itself. You can also find sites to submit to using the guest blogging community.  If you have any additional sites that are good for guest posting, please share them in the comments.

http://www.tipsblogger.com/submit-guest-post/
http://www.troublefixers.com/submit-guest-post/
http://www.serradinho.com/Blog/submit-guest-post/
www.hivehealthmedia.com/contact/article-submission/
www.codrutturcanu.com/submit-guest-post-codrutturcanu/
www.youngprepro.com/submit-guest-post/
www.theladybloggers.com/submit-guest-post/
www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/submit-guest-post-writer.html
www.meditationden.com/submit-guest-post/
www.techgainer.com/join/
http://inkwelleditorial.com/guest-posts-wanted-submission-guidelines
http://reviewcrushers.com/submit-guest-post
www.findallanswers.com/write-for-find-all-answers/
http://alltopstartups.com/write-for-us/
http://myblog2day.com/guest-blogger
www.entrepreneurshipsecret.com/submit-guest-post/
http://themastercleanse.org/write-for-us/submit-guest-post/
http://itechengine.com/submit-guest-post
http://reviewunit.com/submit-guest-post/
www.jan-leasure.com/contactform/submit-guest-post/
www.favouritehobbies.com/submit-guest-post/
www.4yourcatshealth.com/submit-guest-post/
www.famousbloggers.net/submit-your-article
www.shreeonlinejobs.com/p/submit-guest-post.html
www.abhishek.biz/submit-guest-post/
http://frugalfinders.com/about/submit-guest-post/
http://techmaso.com/submit-guest-post/
http://allfinanceupdates.blogspot.com/p/submit-guest-post.html
http://waynefarley.com/aviation/submit-guest-post/
www.chotoan.com/submit-guest-post-and-make-money-online-with-clickkt/
http://infobonanza.com/submit-guest-post/
http://godsownparty.com/blog/tag/submit-guest-post-religion/
http://faithfulbloggersnetwork.com/submit-guest-post
http://matthewsabia.com/guestpost/
http://denisewakeman.com/guest-post/
www.tailstotellblog.com/submit-a-guest-post
http://makemoneyhelper.com/guest-post/
www.delhinutrition.com/blog/submit-guest-post/
http://simplefinancialfreedom.com/submit-guest-post
www.sistaswithattitude.com/submit-guest-post/
www.makemoneyonline2dy.com/submit-guest-post
www.favorazzi.com/p/submit-guest-post.html
http://pinkeyewiki.com/submit-guest-post/
http://thebitbot.com/submit-post/
http://ourmaninsichuan.wordpress.com/submit-guest-post/
http://webmasterformat.com/submit-guest-post
www.bloggz.net/submit-guest-post
http://libertariantheocracy.tumblr.com/submit
www.glutenfreefit.com/submit-guest-post
www.ericfinance.com/submit-post/
www.bloggertipz.com/p/submit-guest-post.html
www.blogtap.net/guest-post/
www.way2makemoneyeasy.com/?page_id=201
http://blog.friendselectric.biz/submit
www.prstudchat.com/submit-guest-post/
www.hobbyfarmblog.com/submit-a-guest-post/
http://mrdefinite.com/tag/sports-submit-guest-post/
http://guestpostingtips.com/how-to-submit-your-guest-post/
www.websigmas.com/submit-guest-post/
http://georgetownonline.biz/blog/submit-guest-post/
www.mycomputerclue.com/?page_id=319
http://financeideas4u.blogspot.com/p/submit-guest-post.html
www.myorganicgardeningblog.com/submit-a-guest-post/
www.lovelovechina.com/submit-guest-post/
www.plantinhamilton.com/?page_id=24
http://gridley.info/submit-guest-post/
http://blog.old-dog-treats-and-rawhide.com/submit-article/
http://crazyjourneys.com/search/submit-guest-post/
http://bestfinancenetwork.com/submit-guest-post
http://unystartups.com/submit-guest-post/
www.backpackforever.com/guestpost.php
www.webmaster-success.com/write-for-this-blog/
www.blogussion.com/content-management/submit-guest-post/
http://headkeys.com/gadgets+%22submit+guest+post%22
www.cleverdude.com/…/inviting-all-of-you-to-submit-guest-posts/
www.cakedecoratingmom.com/submit-guest-post/
www.freemarketmommy.com/2011/…/want-to-submit-guest-post.html
http://naijan.com/tag/submit-guest-post-to-health-and-fitness-blog/
www.payepalalternatives2earncash.com/2011/…/submit-guest-post.html
http://shutkeys.com/gadgets/gadgets+%22submit+guest+post%22
www.takeme2yourheart.com/2010/01/submit-guest-post.html
www.fxadvices.com/submit-guest-post/
www.tricksdaddy.com/join-tricksdaddy
www.webmaster-success.com/write-for-this-blog/
www.blogussion.com/content-management/submit-guest-post/
www.cakedecoratingmom.com/submit-guest-post/
www.cleverdude.com/…/inviting-all-of-you-to-submit-guest-posts/
www.freemarketmommy.com/2011/…/want-to-submit-guest-post.html
www.payepalalternatives2earncash.com/2011/…/submit-guest-post.html
www.fxadvices.com/submit-guest-post/
www.collegefallout.com/tag/submit-guest-post/
www.tricksdaddy.com/join-tricksdaddy www.ommhub.com
www.thestartupreneur.com/submit-guest-post/
www.takeme2yourheart.com/2010/01/submit-guest-post.html
http://bodyhealthysoul.com/archive/submit-guest-post-fitness.htm
http://freelancemd.com/guestpost/
http://electricego.crinz.com/add-your-ego
http://bloggers.com/talk/submit-guest-post
www.calix.org/submit-guest-post/
http://godsownparty.com/blog/tag/submit-guest-post-to-beauty-blog/

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What Effect Will Google Analytics Premium Have On Non-Paid Version?

by Brian on September 29, 2011

Googe Analytics Premium

It appears that Google Analytics Fast Access Mode may have been the Trojan horse that forces it’s high volume users in to consider using their new Google Analytics Premium Version that was announced today. The new premium option is targeted at enterprise clients and the messaging is that there will not be any change to the regular Google Analytics as it stands today and that the Premium version offers advanced features and phone call technical support. It may take a little bit of time before we know the real impact, but from everything I read and based on what happened a few months ago when the the system failed for a couple of week, here are two possibilities:

1) This is strictly aimed at companies like Webtrends, Coremetrics, and Omniture to offer the kind of support and guarantees that are necessary for some large enterprises to adopt Google analytics.
2) This could be a way to force existing large volume users to adopt the premium version. When the problem occurred a few months ago, it was because of a switch to “Fast Access Mode” which meant that Google Analytics was taking a sampling of your real data to build reports rather than usual all of the actuals. If they roll this out as default on the non-paid version, there may be a need to switch to the paid version to get consistent reporting.
The cost of Google Analytics Premium is in the $150,000 range which makes it very competitive with the other web analytics software providers. 

Here is the announcement from Google and detailed write-up from Search Engine Land:
Depending on the changes that are made to the standard version, this could have a tremendous impact to site reporting and the analytics industry as sampling data used by Google Analytics fast access mode has been seen to given a very inaccurate view of the actual events taking place on a site. this may be an opportunity for another company to offer a free analytics platform that rival GA and gets a mass exodus due to changes.
What impact do you think this may have?

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Why I Doubt Google+ Will Replace Facebook

by Brian on July 24, 2011

It’s possible, in a few years from now or sooner I will have to eat my words, but based on my early review, Google+ will not be to Facebook what Facebook was to Myspace. The differences between Google+ and Facebook are small feature differences that are not that significant in my opinion as opposed to a total different user experience when Facebook is compared to Myspace.

The additions to Google+ that has the media raving about are hangouts and circles. Hangouts allow a person to video chat with up to 9 of their friends or business acquaintances at the same time and is a very clean user experience. Circles allows you to group people in to different “circles” so that you can send different updates and share different items with different groups. So family pictures could be shared with your “family” circle while industry news could be shared with your “work” circle.

Both are good features, but the Google created excitement for these features is not enough for people to switch from Facebook is my opinion because it misses the point that most people don’t share many items on Facebook so the benefit of different circles goes away. There are a lot of items shared on Facebook, but a large majority of shared items are done by a small percentage of the people. Most people are just “lurkers” who are interested in what others post, but rarely update themselves. So for these people, there is nit much benefit to circles.

Besides maybe a few occasions a year, I can think of when I would want/need to video chat with more than 1 or 2 people and almost never would I need 10. This may be a good business application, but for everyday users not sure how popular it will be. The one-on-one chat offered by Skype and now Facebook will be adequate for 95% of video chat needs. The option of multi person video chat is intriguing, but lnot likely to be heavily used.

Besides those two features, Google+ is like a mirror image of Facebook. So then the question becomes is it worth it for Facebook users to go through the effort of rebuilding their profiles and reconnecting with all of the their contacts on a different platform? I don’t think so. Myspace had problems with page load times due to the self designed pages as well as they had become overrun by spammers. Facebook has some of that, but not really that bad considering the scope of the problem. People had become fed up with myspace and that is why the switch made sense. I can not say that this is the case for Google+ and Facebook. People may be leaving Facebook, but mainly for boredom, not because they choose Google+.

Do you think there is a chance everyone will leave Facebook to switch to Google+ or is the most that Google could hope for is that users will update two networks?

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Improving My Productivity Using StayFocusd Chrome Extension

by Brian on May 20, 2011

A few months ago I started using an extension for Google Chrome named StayFocusd that allows you to set a limit on the amount of time that you spend on the websites that you specify. So if you find yourself spending too much time on sites like Facebook or Twitter and are not being as productive as you should be, this app can be used to limit how much time you waste. It is very simple to setup and every time you visit one of the sites that you have added to your list, then the time goes down until it runs out at which time all of those sites are blocked for the remainder of the day. Even if you use all of your time by 9am, then the Chrome browser will block those sites until midnight. I used to just block a website if I was using it too much, but that is all or nothing and more time consuming to change in those times when the sites are needed.

There are tricks you can play with the app to adjust the time as you see it winding down, but that really defeats the purpose. If you find yourself adjusting the time, you should either do an analysis of if you set your time too low or there are still adjustments to your behavior that need to be made. Stay Focusd has done a great job of adding small barriers into the application that should help to deter you from adding more time like small pop-ups about “telling your mom” and such. Very clever.

This extension has helped to keep me on task rather than hopping from screen to screen and constantly checking those sites that don’t update nearly as often as I check them or that are not urgent and should not interfere with productive work. I am always searching for ways to get a little bit better than I was the day before and this app has been helpful in doing that.

Do you have any techniques to improve your productivity that you have found to be effective?

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Google Analytics Fast Access Mode

by Brian on May 19, 2011

 

Google Analytics has had some data issues over the last few weeks where the statistics for your site were not accurate if you were using advanced segmentation or custom reporting. This was particularly an issue because the data could not be pulled through the Google Analytics dashboard or the API. Google has not stated what caused the issue, but did provide estimated times for repair and also stated that the the collection of the data was never a problem, only the reporting. This caused a delay in client reporting and also now causes a need for deeper analysis in month-to-month changes in the traffic to determine if it truly was a change in traffic or a Google reporting issue. I first planned to hop on my soap box and rant about cloud computing and our vulnerabilities when we use them, but downtime happens for most service providers and this just proves that Google is no exception.

When I noticed the issue with the data, it was due to a message that appeared on the screen when I attempted to run a few custom reports that said “This report is generated in fast -access mode. Learn more.” The click more revealed the definition of fast access mode which I found quite alarming. From the Google site it states”

“In a sampled data report, some report results are estimated from a statistical sample of site visits.

Sampling occurs when you add a secondary dimension to a report and the resulting data for that segment contains more than 500,000 visits. Sampling data allows Google Analytics to generate reports quickly for large data sets.

Data is sampled when you have over a certain threshold of visits in that date range. For example, if you have over 500,000 visits in your selected date range, but were only looking at a single page with around 1,000 views, your visits will still get sampled because we are looking at all your visits data for your site in that date range.”

Sampling data? To provide reports?!? Since the problem with the data has been corrected, this message no longer appears, but I would think that it is safe to say this has not totally gone away and will be back. The problem with sampling data is that it makes all of the conversion metrics inaccurate which is huge if you are measuring ROI or even worse if you are an e-commerce site and attempting to calculate revenue or inventory. Google analytics would not be the only tool that you would use for those functions, but it becomes much more challenging to manage your business effectively when a lot of time is required to analyze the validity of data that you once assumed was accurate.

Also, statistically calculating data could have huge impacts on sites that rely on advertising as their traffic volumes for visits and pageviews could change drastically. Hopefully more details are provided for “Fast Access Mode” before it it fully rolled out and judging by the anger in the Google support forums, there are many others that feel the same way. As I understand this change today, this could cause large swing in traffic reporting that may not even really exist, but could just be calculating incorrectly. Makes me nervous.

If this change does take place, it would also seem that Google Analytics is only a bit better than a Quantcast or Compete.com who also use some type of statistical hocus pocus to estimate site traffic. Really not like the idea of this change…Need more details. Has anyone had problems with your latest Google Analytics data?

 

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Things That Still Amaze Me

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Is Buying A Franchise A Good Idea? Part 2

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