Welcome to Kansas City Web Design’s Guest Blogging page. We started this program to create a win-win for our website and other bloggers & writers. Given our market leadership position in Kansas City, we have a unique perspective. We are honored to work with businesses of all sizes across many different industries. We love to blog about industry news, current trends, our experience and our clients’ businesses as well. We also understand, however, that it is important to share other unique and creative perspectives from other companies and professionals in different areas of the world and other industries that are related to web design and online marketing. This is part of our overall goal to bring the best Kansas City Internet marketing and web design content to our audience.
For the publisher or website owner, guest blogging can also be an effective part of an overall web visibility strategy. It can enhance the authority of a website, making it a destination for information and advice for given market or community. Great blog content also attracts real traffic. This new traffic can then be converted into loyal readership and followers. Finally, guest blogging can be an important part of an SEO strategy. Fresh blog content enables you to add high quality pages to your website, with more relevant text and information for search engines to process and ultimately determine if your site or blog page should be ranked higher over other web sites. New quality blog pages signal a healthy growing site. When a website has an established following and an effective distribution network, the new posts can earn their own links, shares and recommendations – gaining more algorithm points to help maintain or improve organic rankings.
For the guest blogger there are many benefits as well. We have a large client base, exceptional online visibility in Kansas City and we do substantial, targeted marketing in this market. Guest blogging can be a great opportunity to market your writing and professional knowledge to potential employers or clients. It’s also a great opportunity to or gain additional reader and follower for your own website. In our case, guest bloggers receive an author credit at the end of the post via a short bio, as well as your image and one link back to your site. This information will remain on the site unless we remove the entire post at some point in the future.
Topics we are interested in covering include:
- Search engine optimization
- Internet marketing
- Web design
- Software development
- Social media
- Mobile websites & apps
- Online marketing
- Search engine marketing / PPC / pay-per-click
- Content creation & distribution
- Online videos
- Graphic design
- Blogging
- Virtually any topic that relates to or adds value to our readers and clients.
Minimum requirements:
- Cannot be promotional, must be informative and engaging. We are not looking for filler content.
- Minimum 500 words
- While your post can and should be inspired by current trends and topics, it must be 100% original content and written by you.
- Must pass copyscape
- Cannot be rehashed or re-spun articles
- If approved and published, content will becoming the property of this site.
- We do not accept payment to post nor do we pay for guest posts.
Articles to need to be high quality, original and add value to our website. We will place one attribution link to your website, provided that it also is a high quality (i.e. non-spammy) site. The follow video from Google’s head of webspam may help further clarify what we are look for, and looking to avoid:
We will review every submission and will let you know as soon as possible if we intend to post your article. This way, you will know quickly so that you can use the article on your own site or elsewhere. Do not be discouraged if we don’t use one of your submissions the first time. We very much appreciate the interest and effort required to create an interesting article. For more info, contact us here.
