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Hey there peeps. Social media maven Tamar Weinberg has been kind enough to allow me to extend my guest blogging world tour over at Techipedia today. If you’ve been following my guest posts you may remember I wrote a piece over at SEO Scoop a few weeks ago comparing the quality of search traffic with social media traffic. While search won out, there were still some unanswered questions regarding social media. In particular, do niche social networks have the ability drive higher quality traffic than generic social networks?

Find out by reading the great social media traffic debate now

If you’ve followed my blog for the last few weeks, you’d be aware I’m on a grand mission to spread guest blogging love across the universe. Last week I spoke about how to use guest blogging to attract new readers to your blog. Today I’ll be discussing how guest posts can be used to enhance your organic search engine rankings.

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Ok… please excuse me for this incredibly self indulgent post. But I was a little excited when I read SEO Moz’s weekly roundup via my RSS reader this morning. My guest post on SEO Scoop was the sole recipient of a 5 star rating this week, which is a huge honour from one of the most credible sites in the industry.

Which just goes to show the value of guest blogging once again (I know… I sound like a broken record). It is highly unlikely the SEO Moz crew would ever have found the post on my blog. But donating it to Donna allowed my work to reach a far broader audience. And the benefit - a super piece of personal branding via the much loved SEO Moz crew. Money can’t buy that reference. Huzzah!

Let’s get one thing straight… I hate Twitter. I know it’s hard to hate something you’ve never used, but the concept just seems completely lame to me. Anyone who’s seen my blogging diary would know that my free time is very limited. So why on earth would I want to enter the Twitter-verse? Do I really need to endure constant interruptions of inane small talk…? Certainly not! Indeed, while Twitter mania reached a frenzy over the last 12 months, I have remained the epitome of an anti-micro blogger. That is, until now…

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