guest blogging site

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by alan081954, Nov 21, 2011.

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    I want to start a guest blogging site. I want users to be able to register and then log in and write their own blog with full control to edit their stuff at any time. I have never even wrote a blog in my life to be honest. Any idea what I should use to do this? I am not interested in wordpress stuff at all.
     
    alan081954, Nov 21, 2011 IP
  2. Crimebuster_of_the_Sea

    Crimebuster_of_the_Sea Notable Member

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    I don't really understand why anyone would write blog posts for a blog that has no PR. You should start off building up a blog on your own and then when you have increased its PR and can prove it is a blog with quality posts you may get people interested. No-one in their right mind would write free blog posts when they're not getting anything out of it - they can do this on article directories and at least get valuable links. If you've never blogged before why do you expect it to work?
     
    Crimebuster_of_the_Sea, Nov 24, 2011 IP
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    alan081954 Active Member

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    wrong answer the complaint dept. is to your left
     
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    In fairness, he might just be trying to save you a lot of effort for very little reward. A site like that would be competing with the likes of Squidoo, Hub Pages, Ezine, Weebly, and more. It would require a lot of work to get it right.

    I do think you would get people writing though, but without quality control, your site would just be a massive spam megabase.

    ... hard to monetize that.


    Sorry I can't be more helpful in terms of how to set something like that up.

    Wordpress is great for adding small amounts of guest writers:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

    Good luck with your project.
     
    condra, Nov 24, 2011 IP
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    That's what I mean -it wouldn't be a blog it would be more of an article directory and as there are already lots of them already online it's going to be ridiculously hard to get people interested unless you offer them something in return; and I agree with the spam problem - the big sites have issues with it so when working alone it's going to be almost impossible to sort through.

    There are some blogs that now purely get their content from guest posts but the only reason they can do this is because they have a high PR and so people are happy to blog for the link. For a PR0 blog it's just not going to happen unless you work with a set group of people and split any advertising costs you make.
     
    Crimebuster_of_the_Sea, Nov 24, 2011 IP
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    Very well said. I agree with you. I know it's sad, but nothing comes for free nowadays. There should always be a give and take cycle which I think is fair enough.
     
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